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I just use a spreadsheet which has Brand, size, quantity,comments, source, price(s) and date received. I added a location column too, but haven't used it in the last couple of years. What I find most helpful is the comments, price and date received. I add cigars as they come in and make a comment as I smoke them. with 12-15 storage places, I just can't see how to keep up- even if I caught up. Just another thing to drive a cigar smoker crazy.

Yeah, I store and forgot. My humis are chaos. I thrive on chaos.

The, later, when I digging through a box looking for something that I know I have somewhere, I see stuff I had forgetting about, and it's like "oh, sweet, forgot those." It's like someone giving me cigars that I like.

What do y'all do to organize storage space? I was recently in the position of having a bunch of half-filled (or less) boxes in the humis, no place to put new stuff, have spent between 5 and 6 hours consolidating and storing, trying to get the same brand in the same humi (for the most part). I still have a cooler to go, so I will be over 6 hours into this project by the time I finish. It's a chore!

Do you consolidate boxes along the way? Do like I do and leave it until it's an all-day job? Is there a better way to keep up with it?

Seriously waaaaay overthinking this passion.

Smoke what you like, but them. Know that in the back of your mind there are few manufacturers that can make the same blend year after year and that some were never designed for a lengthy run.

Live and learn.

thanks. Im not convinced that knowing what is in my humidor while Im strolling around a store is overthinking it. I dont want to buy doubles or triples of things when i have a stash in the box.
We all do smoke what we like, no?

OMG. cigar fairies are real???? I knew it...

Ok. Thanks all

They are not all bad - most are mediocre, some are bad and every couple of years they make something good (that eventually goes downhill or disappears).

I too use to try to catalog them but gave up within in a year or so. Too much headache to worry about. Used to have like qty 3, 64 qt totes and a couple under the bed storage totes when I was in my accumulation stage.

I've wised up and narrowed down over the years where I'm down to qty 1, 64 qt tote and a nightstand size wineador.

I still don't know exactly what I have. As Lee said, every now and again when I try to organize them I run into "$hit, I forgot I had these" episodes.

I don't know much about how the other seller sites work, but the lots from cbid all come with a nice packing label sticker in the box that shows the whole order nicely, I have all of those in one of the zip lock bags from one of the purchases.

One could easily create a physical filing system with just these packing labels if one didn't get too far behind.

Another thing you can do on Cbid is copy your "Won Bids" into a Word file. That keeps track of the date, how much you paid etc. It also carries the link, so you can press Alt and click it to see the Cbid page for the closed auction if you forget or want to see what other people paid on that lot.

But you have to do it within a couple of days (2 I think) of when you won the bid. Sometimes I've waited until all my bids were closed and missed some of the early ones.