In the past, there was nothing defining me with cigars. Even though I have smoked Cubans and premium cigars, I was too young or uneducated/both to understand what I was smoking. I am learning to enjoy the smoke and make the premium ones count. It is more than a smoke; it is apart of my life now.

I have over 300 cigars and I just want more. Hoarder/OCD. I have issues….

What kind of humidor did you get? C Bid has allowed me the luxury of having extra smokes on hand and has thrusted my hobby into overdrive.

I don't know what kind or type. I found it on offer up. It was humidor and wine rack. I took the wine rack out. I will try to post pictures.

When I first started out, I had a 20-25 ct humidor, quickly realized that I needed more storage so bought a 50 ct. Thought for sure I wasn’t gonna smoke 75 cigars in year...boy was I wrong!

Yea gonna try to keep it @ 500.

I thought the same thing when I started my first cooler...boy was I wrong...again!

Get it over with....go for the cooler and don't look back8-[

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Ha!

Uh.....hahahaha......

OK......you do that.

Here's what's gonna happen.

You'll find other places to score good deals........deals ya just can't pass up......cause they're too good, and they're your current favorites, or they're becoming extinct...whatever.

Then you'll suddenly find yourself with 573 cigars, with 2 boxes, 4 fivers, and a couple LFD samplers coming in the mail in 2 days........and you'll slide right down the rabbit hole.

Now, there's a good chance you'll come out of it after a few years, or more, and maybe you will ultimately settle in around 500.

I've seen this movie many times...

Either your buying ramps up faster than smoking or your smoking hits a peak and ramps down over time while your buying continues. Even those who try to match buying rate to smoking rate usually have built up a reserve that exceeds reasonable expectations for an emergency backup supply.

I think there is a mathematical formula lurking here. I think Stephen Hawking was working on it.

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I tried to post a picture of my humidor but I need someone to approve it. If does gets approved i will send you the link.

I am trying to find my apex. Right now I'm on a buying spree, but am being selective. I want a well rounded humidor that reflects my pallet. I smoke on average about 20-30 smokes a month and am in the process of figuring out how many smokes I can manage in a large coolidor. My current setup is small but sweet. I have a small Igloo marine cooler that I have managed to get 5 levels of trays. I think I have the perfect ratio of cedar to plastic in that one. :-"

http://www.cigarbid.com/mobile/forum/cb_postst657942_My-Humidor.asp 

A few cigars came to mind when I posted that some cigars get worse over time: The most striking example is the Las Calaveras 2014, a phenomenal cigar when it came out...one of my all time faves...by 2016, the few remaining lost some luster, and by last year it was no longer a great cigar.

Another example is the Liga Privada #9 Feral Flying Pig, an explosion of cigar flavors when new...muted and dull a few years later....similar to LP T-52 line...

Common homophone error in the cigar community. It's "palate". Pallet is something you stack freight on and move with forklifts. Honestly I'm not being mean or pedantic, just pointing it out and trying to be helpful!

That cooler sounds like a really nice setup!

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It might be palate differences between you and me, and different guys in general. If, during aging, characteristic A decreases and characteristic B increases, then a guy whose palate can detect A more than B will say the cigar lost quality, whereas another guy who can detect A and B equally might say the flavors changed but the overall quality is the same, and a guy who can detect B more than A will say that it got better.

As for the Ligas, I've heard many rumors from many different people that some special additives or processes or SOME form of weirdness is done to them, and that it causes them to behave differently from "normal" cigars when it comes to things like aging (and some other stuff like tending to produce abnormally large amounts of smoke including resting smoke). But no proof, so who knows.

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I've found no other source for the information though. I looked at some point, but didn't find any information to confirm it.

Interesting. If true, one wonders if the stuff evaporates after X amount of time, causing the cigar to lose some of its flavors and thus "get worse with age".

Of course, this is pure speculation and hypothetical. I've never seen any hard evidence of any additives, just lots of rumors.

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WTF! I hope this is not true.

Did you check out my humidor?

http://www.cigarbid.com/Forum/c/posts/657942/My-Humidor