Looking for some help. Like everyone else here I have picked up more than my share of cigars lately and looking for more room to put them in. I have an OtterBox 5000 I'd like to use which is supposed to hold 24 cigars but can hold a lot more if I take the foam out. On thier website they suggest not taking the foam out. Does anyone know why? I'm thinking they are talking about during travel, but I just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything to it. Also has anyone been using it as an everyday humidor with success. Thanks.

Id go with a cheap cooler/sweater/tupperdor... they are fun to fill. the otter box is fine for a humidor.. throw some climmax beads in there and you are good to go .

fpaternostro - The Otter is a cigar caddy, or traveldor. It’s designed to safely transport your cigars from A to B. The seal it offers is air-tight, which is not desirable when considering a 'long'-term humidor. In all honesty, I've had my Otter for 2 years now and I have yet to go as far as charging its humidification element. However, I use it every day to truck my smokes to and from the office, and it does a damn fine job!

I vote with SteveR@CBid on this topic after I used my 32 ct OtterBox to take about 40 cigars with me on vacation ... knowing I was going to a relatively dry climate, I charged the humidifier in the lid. Within 3 days, the cigars were quite overhumidified, something I discovered by finding many of the cigars at the top to be spongy ... I opened the box, removed the humidifier, left the box open for several hours, then closed it, but opened the relief valve. After that, I tood cigars from the bottom of the box and worked up and closed the valve after a couple of days.

IMO, you COULD use the box to temporarily handle an overflow situation, but since putting a little sweaterboxador together is so easy and inexpensive, why bother? ... in fact, why not put a couple of sweaterboxadors together? ... after all, you're going to need more and more "overflow" capacity anyway.