I seldom put my word to any cigar for I know how subjective taste are from one person to the next, but the Ashton Cabinet #2 are in my top five of my favorites. A bit pricey, but these cigars are simply out of this world, a very eloquent, smooth and tasty stick, from the first puff you know you have something very special. Everyone of these I have smoked has been utterly perfect. I have had the Diamond Crown, very very good as well, but for me not nearly the flavor of this Ashton. For my sake, just try one. (sponsored by the Fuente marketing group)

I'm convinced. Send one at your earliest convenience.

Is he in the MAG 7 Group? Maybe he needs a honorary membership so we can all get one sampled to us by the Mile High poster!!!

One must pick for which he spends.....family or self=cigars...damn guys that is simple and if I have to tell you which it is then you guys need a new hobby.

Welcome, Aberdeen! Here, have a seat. Make yourself at home. Would you like a drink? We'd love to have you as a Mag 7 member. Have another drink. Just sign right here. Why don't we send you the box right away? We want to get you involved as soon as possible.

What?? Are you saying that if we enjoy cigars we are neglecting our families? If you are, shame on you. If you're just saying Ashton Cabinets cost too much, you may have a valid point there; forgive my first comment if that is what you meant.

Cigars over family.....what a easy choice! Just kidding...one must balance the two. If it is a toss up then have a smoke and decide.

now look, I am not advocating making this your daily cigar, I would love to make it mine, on average I smoke cigars in the $2.50 to $6 price range, but once a week, usually a Saturday I will smoke a $10 cigar or more even, and of the super premium cigars this is my favorite. Does my wife know I pay $200 a box for these? No, of course not, what constructive purpose would that serve? Does my wife and kid eat table scraps and wear second hand clothes because of it? No of course not either. Maybe I do, but that's besides the point. I haven't been following these trade boards, so I don't know what you mean by Mag 7. If you recall a few months ago, instead of trading cigars I was just giving them away. But I am often called nice, well sometimes, okay, when forced to out of kindness, and if some of you haven't tried the Ashton Cabinet #2 I would trade I guess, I also have the Robusto Cabinets if you prefer that size, and the robusto Ashton Sun Grown, I always wanted to try the St. Duponts, viable trade? Or do you have trades that work other ways? By the way, I am thinking about doing another little mini cigar purge being that I bid on 3 boxes of the Five Vegas, and two boxes of the La Lunas! If I win, I will let you know, or email me now so I can notify that way,

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Aberdeen, don't let them get to ya. If my fiance had any idea I spend as much as I do on cigars, well the wedding would be off. I have worn the same jeans for almost 10 years....good wear in a pair of Levis. That is why I like you can spend on these little sticks....my main obstacle is warehousing them. A humidor here and a humidor there, well damn, soon you can't hide the little boys anywhere anymore. I now tell everyone my humidors are small cedar chest that I collect. I spend more time here on CB and at JR's that you can possibly imagine. When I die someone will be very very happy, if they love cigars!

at one time I had 22 100 count humidors strung around in my office at home, with 10 more waiting in the wings in the basement. Can you imagine the maintenence keeping up with all of these? I then bought my cabinet last fall, but I still use four of the other humidors, and finally I started putting the other ones on Ebay, and someone emailed me and wanted to buy all of my humidors at my price! So that then paid for half the cost of my cabinet. I still have two marble humidors that I am not using which I will put on ebay next. The problem is I can't smoke the cigars as fast as I buy them.

Just smoke what you can afford... splurge occasionally and enjoy life... life is to short to smoke cheap cigars!

Now wait a minute -- if I'm not mistaken, didn't you earlier scold those who might be devoting more time and money to cigars than to family? Now you're saying YOU'RE the one spending a large amount of time on the net checking into cigars. What gives? I'm sure I'm like many others devoting 95% of my time to family, work, God, etc. When I can, I grab an hour or two out of my week, early Saturday or a late evening, to spend on myself and my "hobby". Once or twice a month, I'll even head to a nearby pub to meet with fellow aficionados for a couple of hours. But I NEVER choose this hobby over my precious family, with my time or money. We do all need a little time for ourselves, and I believe we are BETTER husbands and/or fathers if we take a little relaxation time for ourselves. You're about to be married? I'm sure you'll also find that balance to devote ample time to your wife and a little left over for yourself. And, if you don't already have kids (I highly recommend them!), I'm sure you'll do the same for them. But please don't judge others by a few comments made on this board. This is all part of our few moments spent on our hobby. Best of luck to you!

(My last post was intended to follow mtsheron's post -- forgive any confusion.)

Did I ever step infront or the wrong fan! The @#$% is really flying on this thread. And to think this thread started with a comment about an incredible cigar. Now to comment on that smoke, last night I opened a box of exquisite cigars. This happened to be the #6 (robusto) Ashton Cabinet. The #6 now has become one of my top rank smokes. Worth the money spent? I would answer YES!! Do to the cost of this stick ($195 box), it will not be for every day consumption; but it will not take much of an excuse to smoke one a week!

I apologize; I probably misunderstood what mtsheron was saying in the earlier posts. Hey, this cigar sounds like a must-try! I'm in the midst of trying to convince aberdeen to trade. Help me convince him the La Swisher El Sweeto is indeed an equivalent!

CL, now if you do it right, you can smoke two cigars everyday, and still be the world's best dad. Want to know my secret? See, I work days, and then my wife drops the baby off at my shop on her way to work, so I babysit at night. So, after dinner, I take the kid out in the backyard, and let her play in the playpin, while I have a cigar close-by, and she has a blast as she gets to see the dogs as well. Then she goes to sleep at 8:30, an hour after that I take the baby monitor to the garage, and have my nightly smoke. I finish that usually at 10:30 to 11, and my wife gets home around that time, so I spend the rest of the evening with her, and voila!, quality time with the family, and two cigars daily, it doesn't get any better than this!

Nice plan! If I'm going to enjoy one, it's usually after kids are in bed. If my day has a second one in it, it comes before the day begins. I'll get up about an hour before the kids wake up and enjoy the morning newspaper with coffee and a cigar -- actually my favorite time! Maybe it's my imagination, but they seem to taste better then. Makes a guy decide maybe he IS a morning person! Anyway, what do you think of the Swishero Cabinet Reserve Sweet Series? 🙂

A very old, but interesting thread from the beginning of these forums ...