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OK, question for those of you who buy lot's of full boxes of cigars...

Based on the description of "box tetris", I assume most of you keep the cigars inthe box, which is then inside a humdor, coolidor, etc. At what point do you ditch the box because it's mostly empty due to smoking the contents and taking up more space than the handful of cigars inside require? I have a growing stack of empty boxes (and sometimes just order 4x 5-packs instead of a box of 20) because I just take the cigars out and put them on a shelf in the tupperadore.

Other than long-term storage/aging of a full or nearly full box, do you guys leave the cigars in the boxes and store the box or ditch the boxes?

I usually keep the cigars in the box for aging purposes and to keep track of age until the last 3-4. If the box does not list the date code I mark it with the date I purchased it. Prolly have about 35+ boxes most of which have been sampled from. Of course this doesn't work if storage is limited but I have 3 humis totaling about 3000 stated capacity and the boxes help hold RH constant as well.

I only keep about 50-60 singles out at any one time.

These days if / when I buy a box, I put it in a gallon or sometimes larger Ziploc with a bag of 65% HF beads. All of my coolers are maxed out despite my efforts to amalgamate and optimize them. I’ve kinda been able to organize the coolers by major brands with one for Cubans only. With that being said, I don’t want to reinvent the wheel and reorganize the coolers each time an old box gets close to being empty and replace it with a newer box. When I start to mix in other cigars into a box that’s less than 50% full, I’ll list the invading cigars and tape it to the box lid.

I used to save my old, excess boxes and give them to one of my nephews but I’ve given him so many he doesn’t want more so now I’m starting to build a collection of empties.

I’m somewhere between. I have a few still in boxes. Starting to just open new boxes and stash in bags I don’t write dates on my smokes. Maybe I should. I dunno. Thinking of taking some more out of boxes. I’m not 100 percent sure aging matters By that I mean I don’t think the box itself does a whole lot.