So your a collector, now what?

[Zippo]

Damn hard question.
I told to my girlfriend (6-8 months ago) that i'm satisfied with my "collection" when i reach 1000 cigars.
Now i have 1200+ and i still find more and more cigars that i just must have.
I do want to smoke from an aged stock and i truly believe that my current stash is suffient to provide me with properly aged cigars for many years to come but my "hunger" for more cigars is still not satisfied.
Why the things are like this...i dont know.
But nowadays i do have some idea what i like and what i don't so my "greed" for more limited han earlier.

My conclusion is that we all are in some degree collectors, the difference is how much money we can put in it.

/Zippo

[monkey66]

I age and smoke. I try to only have good sticks and nothing is sacrosanct as long as it is ready to smoke. What I try not to do is waste a great stick when I only have time for a quick winter walker. Only smoking one or two a week means 500 or so great sticks gives me a constant supply of fine aged puros.

[jdawg]

Don't fret, friend....If you live on the left side of the pond, you can get the Mexican Special here (click the pic or here),

Just tell 'em ol' TJ sent ya'!


You'll be glad you did!

Thanks Senor TJ! I will check them out. I really do need to get me one.

[cbob]

Being a collector by nature, I find it hard to stop buying them. I know I will aquire more than I will ever be able to smoke...

I'm with you.
Collecting a variety of brands and sizes means always having an appropriate cigar to smoke or give as a gift.
Aging the collection means always having a vintage smoke to enjoy and to compare with more recent production.
But how many to buy?
If you smoke a cigar/day, you will need to replace 365 cigars or almost 15 boxes of your favorites every year. That's a lot of scratch.
If you are like me and only smoke 2-3/week (except when on a cigar vacation when I have unlimited supplies) then we are still talking 4-6 boxes and that either means a lot of online buying, or more trips to My Favorite Island.
My personal collecting habit is to try to hold a particular vitola for a minimum of two years before putting it into regular smoking rotation so for those of you still awake and counting, you can understand why it took me several years and some lucky "encounters of the multiple-mule kind" before the collection reached a "critical mass".
I'm now holding about 1800 cigars representing all my favorite Cuban marcas (and about 700 non-Cuban smokes) and by replacing slightly more than I smoke every year, I'm enjoying the aged stock without smoking up the newer stuff. I'm smoking up my non-Cuban cigars and don't intend to replace any of them so expect to end up with a regularly topped-up collection of about 1000 -1100 Cuban smokes. I figure that when they give me the old "six months to live, I can smoke 5-6 /day and go out well preserved.
I never buy online because a large part of my joy of collecting is searching the shops for favorites and regularly finding aged cigars to add to the "smoking now" stocks.

[Pantomimehorse]

I also thought about this recently, and I do have far too many on the do not smoke list but I plan from now on every birthday to smoke a good stick from the collection, not strong willed to extend this policy to Christmas and other events yet but think I will at some point. Also when my best mate eventualy gets round to marrying his other half I plan to sit back with him and smoke two bloody good sticks from the selection

[Boss Hog]

Ive got a few nice collectors items, that I dare not touch, a bit silly but i keep em stashed seperately out of view from everyone, even myself!

This is kinda exactly what I was wondering. Will there ever be a time you would consider smoking them?

Nice collectors items now, but lets say you kept them for 20 years. Would they still be like that and worth more or would they get to a point that there actually just a worthless load of old leaves with no flavour left in them.

I guess the part of being a collector is to get enjoyment from the thing you collect and unlike say comics for example you can get them out and read them over again. With these you get one shot at it.

[68TriShield]

I'm not a collector in the least

[TJCoro]

I Want My Big Humi!

Damn, I need me one of those mexican cabinets!!!

Don't fret, friend....If you live on the left side of the pond, you can get the Mexican Special here (click the pic or here),

Just tell 'em ol' TJ sent ya'!


You'll be glad you did!

[Kdot]

Ive got a few nice collectors items, that I dare not touch, a bit silly but i keep em stashed seperately out of view from everyone, even myself!

[snooky]

Boss you are so right , i keep promising to run down my stock and just idle along with just 50 or so on the go , but then a good deal or a new cigar comes along, i guess weve all got it bad, helpless, we could open a new section ,cigars annonymous, and start by donating your old stock..... to me

[Lee Nub]

Its a good job he's a friend of mine lol

[G-man]

Lee Nub
Special BOTL Member

Being a collector by nature, I find it hard to stop buying them. I know I will aquire more than I will ever be able to smoke, but part of my cigar enjoyment is finding them and collecting them

My wife is instructed to contact you Mark if anything happens to me lol

Boss Hog
Special BOTL Member

Thanks, I'll take good care of those nub holders for you. She can keep the cigars! __________________
I've been to the Congo and no-ones ever heard of "Um Bongo" !!

Boss your soooo bad !

[whisky77]

Yip.

Exactly.

[cohibaIV]

I am guilty as charged on this account Boss.

I do like collecting cigars and letting them sit for years in the humi, but I will happily smoke a box from last year and bypass a box which has five years on it.

I don`t understand it myself, so I cannot explain it mate.

Hmmmmm

[whisky77]

Do not undertand!

I am guilty as charged on this account Boss.

I do like collecting cigars and letting them sit for years in the humi, but I will happily smoke a box from last year and bypass a box which has five years on it.

I don`t understand it myself, so I cannot explain it mate.