I do not worry about collecting for future monetary gain.
Last year when I won the 10 TAT Jasons in the golf tournament, I gave away 8 here to the group. Week before last I sent 5 Las Caliveras to a BOTL as a marker for future favors. Looks like it was a give away as said BOTL disappeared. I send CC's to my deserving noobs, because I want them to experience a great cigar, and have a true reference in the future if a CC is better than what their favorite smoke is.
If it is rare, I hope the person on the receiving end is appreciative of the gesture, just like I always am whenever anyone sends me some sticks of any sort.
Thanks again to Buckwheat who sent me the incredible hit with not only cc's in it, but a Fifth of Old Balvenie right after New Years. Every time I partake in something sent to me, I remember the BOTL who sent me something I might not have otherwise either been able to afford, or had the pleasure of trying.
Mountain man smacked me with my favorite weekly smoke, the CAO QUAD Extreme. Several Brothers helped me out with some Fuentes for the Chicago News reporter chick that was supposed to interview me about my rescue work. That is a subject for a different post.
If this new cigar, a supposed copy of the Las Caliveras is in deed the same tobacco, and a true Las Caliveras hiding under a new name, I am sure I will get a few for later consumption.
Enjoy what comes our way brothers, for we do not know what tomorrow holds. And thanks again for the generosity that has been shown me over the years, Mr TMCTLT. Weapon X, Chewmaise, Zody, T33bone, Darbolt, NaDill, Denis007, and Jack Campbell, Muddy 77, and Busa, and all the Anonamous Donors of the Leaf.
The rare cigars are great, but the rarer friendships count for so much more.
Oh and I would like to thank all the other people who made this possible, the mail man. the cigar rollers, CBID(high girls in the office), the growers, the pickers, the shippers.......Sorry I was having an academy awards flashback.