Good evening, I am a botl and my name is Patrick. Can we open this meeting with a momment of silence for the newbee stll smoking Phillies...
Followed by the Serenity Prayer....
Cbid, Grant me the Serenity, to accept that some auctions I can not win, the COURAGE to not to bid above MSRP, and the WISDOM to know quality from marketing.
Could a cigar addict please read the 12 Steps of Cigovery...
Step 1...We admitted that we were powerless over the cigar world and our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 2...We came to beleive that paying less than MSRP could restore us to sanity.
Step 3...We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to Cigovery, as we undertood it.
Step 4...We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our humidors.
Step 5...We admitted to the forums, ourselves and another FOG the exact nature of our taste profile.
Step 6...We were entirely ready to have our delivery companies hide incoming packages form our significant others.
Step 7...We humbly asked for a reliable ISOM connection.
Step 8...We made a list of all botl/sotl that we had not yet bombed and became willing to do damage to their mailboxes.
Step 9...We made direct ammends and assaults on such botl/sotl whenever possible, especially when to do so would put a smile on them and others.
Step 10...We contiunued to take personal inventory, and whether our stash was low or not, promptly increased it.
Step 11..We sought through internet and local B&M's, to improve our concious contact with a variety of cigars, praying only for the power to discover the Greatest of All Time.
Step 12...Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to newbees, and to practice these principles in all our cigar related affairs.
This sounds like it requires a big order and we can't buy them all at once. We didn't become addicted in one day, or did we, so remember-easy does it.
There is one thing more than anything else that will defeat us in our cigovery; this is an attitude of indifference or intolerance toward certain foreign tobaccos. Three of these that are indespensable are Dominican, Nicaraguan and of course, Cuban. With these we are well on our way.
We feel that our approach to the disease of all things cigar is completely realistic, for the therapeutic value of one botl/sotl helping another is withoiut parallel. We feel that Cigovery is practical, for one botl/sotl can best understand and help another botl/sotl. We beleive that the sooner we face our storage problems within our living spaces, just that much faster do we become aqcceptable, responsible and productive members of the home made humidor society.
The only way to keep from returning to paying MSRP is not to pay more for that first cigar. If you are like us you know that one is too many and a box never holds enough. We put great emphasis on this, for we know that when we pay MSRP in any forum, or substitute dog rockets for quality puros, we release our finances all over again.
Thinking of Habanos as different from other cigars has caused a great many Botl/sotl to relapse. Before we came to Cbid, mqny of us viewed Habanos separately, but we can not afford to be confused about this, Cuban are cigars too. We are people with the disease of all things cigars who must abstain form paying over MSRP in order to Cigover.
We will now open the meeting for sharing by a show of hands....
