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Letting an addictive cigar collector look at a cigar retailer website or catalog is akin to putting a gun lover in a gun store. You can never have enough. Even when you think you've kicked the habit, one look and you've got your credit card out. I buy more cigars than I need because I like to age my sticks. But then the urge gets you buying more than is practical. How many cigar collecting junkies are out there? If you watch old movies, you see men smoked the same cigar all the time. They bought a box of Habana Stinkadoras and bought another box when that one ran out. Then I saw a documentary that said Winston Churchill was sitting on 3,000 cigars when he died, many of which he had not yet paid for. Collecting anything is addictive. We are all drawn toward forbidden fruit. I tell myself that after the apocalypse, when all the cigar factories are gone, these cigars will be like gold. Money will be worth nothing and goods will be the currency of exchange.

I’mma certainly guilty of being more of a collector than a committed smoker when I first got into premium cigars. But the intent was to let them rest / age until they were “ready.” I was also in a very good spot, financially, when CAD hit me square in the ding-ding so buying stuff was not an issue. Multiple shipments every week for a couple-ish years. Then MAP happened so I became much more selective and tempered my purchases, somewhat. By then I had a pretty good stash so it didn’t affect me too badly. The 2023 Hawaii law that seriously affected online purchases has allowed me to smoke more than I buy. I’ll probably be dirt poor when the apocalypse hits us.

I’ve been smoking cigars since the ‘90s. Occasionally, not even every month but rather when I was on vacation I would have a couple. I smoked a bit more through the 2000 - 2010 decade but not routinely. Somewhere along 2010-ish I bought a humidor and was smoking probably weekly. In the past couple years I’ve really started smoking more and last year I realized I knew nothing about cigars and decided to try a few of everything I could afford. I’m getting a lot of experience / exposure for sure. I bought up so many so that they could rest and age. I’ve got more than I could smoke in a year. That’s the position I want to be in. But I realize now, having bought so many different “affordable” brands, that I will be smoking out a lot of “stuff” that I won’t enjoy. I want to broaden my experience with cigars but I want to enjoy my hobby too. The exposure will be helpful in learning more about tobacco, brands, and blends but I think I’ve set myself up for several months of growing pains. But I’m hard headed and would rather try something for myself instead of just smoking what the cool kids are smoking. So, yeah…I think I’ve got some kind of disorder lol.

Is it impolite to ask a cigar hoarder (I mean collector) how many sticks they own?

Camo, that’s the question. Until I know for sure:

Mongo is but pawn in game of life

Edit: Brazilian Mata Fina…just saying it out loud seduces me

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