that turned into an EPIC FAIL for my cigar purchases.
I know I've posted this pic before, but it's probably buried deep or gone with the new forum (perhaps Jackconrad can find it since he's good at digging up old threads). I took the pic 1/3/08...Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to me. I thought I'd repost it after the "cigar spending" thread in the C&R forum where I warned some noobs to pace themselves, as I to was a noob and learned a hard lesson. After a couple years of heavy bidding/buying, this was the climax before the chit hit the fan and a reality check set in. There's another pic, taken the beginning of March of the same year, when I took delivery of an Opus sampler and a box each of PSD's and Bolivar RC's. No bids since all of this. I still buy a [single/double] stick here and there, but not often. I've missed out on a lot of new stuff and the high of winning a few bids. I still get bombarded with email specials from domestic shops and from abroad, and there's some good deals from time to time that can be hard to resist. I like to call it "window shopping." But resist I do...ok, I admit, I have done a box split (or two) since then on a small scale, but even that has dwindled off to nothing. After seeing pics go up of major scores and purchases, I must admit, I get jealous. They want to pull me back in.
At some point maybe I'll be able to jump back in the game, and also get back into the fun of bombing, etc, but it doesn't make [financial] sense right now (or any time in the near future as I gaze into my crystal ball).
I'm guilty of being a "collector" of cigars (as Tuck can attest), and I probably have most of the cigars in this pic 3 years later, as well as those not pictured (PSD, RC's, another box of GOF, etc). Maybe some day I'll find the time to smoke them in more prosperous times. I know the two RyJ in the red tubos are toast. I burned those not too long ago, actually. Maybe my thinking is backwards. Perhaps I should smoke them all now so I can feel rich.
Happy smoking.
