that turned into an EPIC FAIL for my cigar purchases.
I know I've posted this pic before, but it's probably buried deep or gone with the new forum (perhaps Jackconrad can find it since he's good at digging up old threads). I took the pic 1/3/08...Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to me. I thought I'd repost it after the "cigar spending" thread in the C&R forum where I warned some noobs to pace themselves, as I to was a noob and learned a hard lesson. After a couple years of heavy bidding/buying, this was the climax before the chit hit the fan and a reality check set in. There's another pic, taken the beginning of March of the same year, when I took delivery of an Opus sampler and a box each of PSD's and Bolivar RC's. No bids since all of this. I still buy a [single/double] stick here and there, but not often. I've missed out on a lot of new stuff and the high of winning a few bids. I still get bombarded with email specials from domestic shops and from abroad, and there's some good deals from time to time that can be hard to resist. I like to call it "window shopping." But resist I do...ok, I admit, I have done a box split (or two) since then on a small scale, but even that has dwindled off to nothing. After seeing pics go up of major scores and purchases, I must admit, I get jealous. They want to pull me back in.
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At some point maybe I'll be able to jump back in the game, and also get back into the fun of bombing, etc, but it doesn't make [financial] sense right now (or any time in the near future as I gaze into my crystal ball).
I'm guilty of being a "collector" of cigars (as Tuck can attest), and I probably have most of the cigars in this pic 3 years later, as well as those not pictured (PSD, RC's, another box of GOF, etc). Maybe some day I'll find the time to smoke them in more prosperous times. I know the two RyJ in the red tubos are toast. I burned those not too long ago, actually. Maybe my thinking is backwards. Perhaps I should smoke them all now so I can feel rich.
Happy smoking.