hbooker
Cigar DJ
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2001
- Messages
- 978
Hello everyone.
Hope everything in your lives is going great - If not hope it gets great soon!
When I started out with cigars the first online place I visited and joined was right here. Yep this little site - I was sent here by a guy who said hey there is a great bunch of guys who hang out at CP.
My experience here has been great, other than the bumpy learning curve I set myself upon earlier when I was a _________ and a _________. But thats all for another post. I will post it soon..hopefully newer guys can learn from it..
MY point is that I got a few cigars early on that I was just sure I would never see again so I horded them up and saved them for a special day.
One New years eve I smoked a BTL, well I now have to look twards every day being a special day - here's why (no Im not dying from some mysterious thing)
A family I know called me up (Im a cigar distributor now) and they asked me If I would come over and check on their father inlaws cigar collection - and buy it.. He died and left it and they want to get rid of it.
That simply made me look at gee am I collecting cigars? I mean if your a collector that s great - go for it.
But if you are hanging on to your first opus, maybe a cuban that someone gave you.. I encourage you to smoke it. Yep just break down and smoke it.
A funny thing happened when I started smoking those "fancy saved cigars"
I would select one or two when a friend would visit and I would hand one to them knowing that they never tried one and I would fire it up and share the exerience.
Well I can honestly tell you that every expereience like this is far worth more to me now than simply looking at a nice gar and being affraid to torch it.
Probably the most Ironic thing is once I started doing this, I began to have more cigars also. Its a weird math that I hope I never quite figgure out.
SO anyway,
If your hanging on to a smoke - fire it up and tell us about your experience.
[if your a collector ignore me :lookup: ]
Hb
Hope everything in your lives is going great - If not hope it gets great soon!
When I started out with cigars the first online place I visited and joined was right here. Yep this little site - I was sent here by a guy who said hey there is a great bunch of guys who hang out at CP.
My experience here has been great, other than the bumpy learning curve I set myself upon earlier when I was a _________ and a _________. But thats all for another post. I will post it soon..hopefully newer guys can learn from it..
MY point is that I got a few cigars early on that I was just sure I would never see again so I horded them up and saved them for a special day.
One New years eve I smoked a BTL, well I now have to look twards every day being a special day - here's why (no Im not dying from some mysterious thing)
A family I know called me up (Im a cigar distributor now) and they asked me If I would come over and check on their father inlaws cigar collection - and buy it.. He died and left it and they want to get rid of it.
That simply made me look at gee am I collecting cigars? I mean if your a collector that s great - go for it.
But if you are hanging on to your first opus, maybe a cuban that someone gave you.. I encourage you to smoke it. Yep just break down and smoke it.
A funny thing happened when I started smoking those "fancy saved cigars"
I would select one or two when a friend would visit and I would hand one to them knowing that they never tried one and I would fire it up and share the exerience.
Well I can honestly tell you that every expereience like this is far worth more to me now than simply looking at a nice gar and being affraid to torch it.
Probably the most Ironic thing is once I started doing this, I began to have more cigars also. Its a weird math that I hope I never quite figgure out.
SO anyway,
If your hanging on to a smoke - fire it up and tell us about your experience.
[if your a collector ignore me :lookup: ]
Hb