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Your First Humidor?

Tall Paul

Tall Paul

"insecure little bitch"
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So with the conversation of "Your first real Cigar experience" I find myself wondering how you got to buying your first cigar humidor. 
 
After my wedding and enjoying the leftover 5er of the box of Ashton Imperials I wanted to get into cigars a little more than just going to the shop and grabbing a couple smokes for the golf course or BBQ. I started with a plastic jar humidor and a drimistat tube and that seemed to work pretty well. Fast forward to my one year anniversary my wife tells me she want so go get me some cigars for our anniversary so we travel over to the local b&m and I grab a selection of 10 cigars and I was happy as all hell and shocked. I then find her over looking at the Humidors and she says "why don't you get one of these boxes and get rid of the jar" Need less to say we walked out of the shop with a nice 50 count and my 10 cigars! Man I love my wife!
 
Paul
 
About 30 years ago I bought a 30 stick or so maple humidor (Cedar lined) at my B&M.  I have since gifted it because of a need for much more storage :whistling: .  I just can't smoke any one cigar consistantly thus the need for box storage.  It keeps me able to have great rotations when I smoke multiple sticks during a day or evening.
 
After finding out there were better cigars out there than the Travis Club Senators, I started learning all I could about the "better" cigars. In that process I ran across CigarPass and liked what I saw. So I signed up and started reading alot and posting a little. Then one day I come home and there is a bomb on my front porch from Matt (mmburtch). I did not have humidor yet, so I made a tupador, tossed in the cigars with a miost paper towel and started researching humidors. I bought a 100ct desktop humidor from Cheap Humidors and procedded to fill it up.
 
I decided that i wanted to get into cigars after grabbing 3 from my local B&M anytime i went fishing or golfing for about a year.
 
i asked for a humidor for christmas and i ran across the cigar.com 29.99 20ct + 10 pack sampler and forwarded that link to my wife.  Woke up christmas morning to the sweet smell of a new humidor.  Stupidly i put all my cigars into that humidor for a week or so before i went on the various cigar communities and realized that i was doing it all wrong and i needed to season the humidor.  Those sticks were so dry that i still haven't touched those 10.
 
I started smoking cigars on the golf course.  I would smoke when there were sticks available or sold in the pro shop.  I was an assistant at a club and one of the members said he would build me a humidor for some golf balls.  I traded some balls with him and put in an order with Thompsons for some smokes.  I know, the devil, I still regret this decision.  I got the cigars and put them in the humidor.  I didn't understand seasoning or anything like that.  The cigars all dried out and I did some research on humidors.  Turns out this guy used aromatic cedar instead of Spanish cedar.  So I took all the metal out, hinges, latch, etc and put the thing into the microwave.  Heated up the glue, pulled out the old cedar and put in spanish cedar sleeves.  Then, I started making my own humidors.  Sold quite a few over the years to friends and such and the rest is history.  Now I have several cabinets that I have adapted and need more space.
 
Great topic Paul.
 
I bought my first humidor from Sam's Club.  It was a 100 ct desktop and I had it until a few years ago when I traded it to a friend for some cigars. 
 
 
Similar to ilikefishes my first humidor was an on-line “deal”  that included cigars and a small 20 count case. I graduated from that piece-o-crap to a Tupperware container. At the time I was smoking, at most, 3 sticks
per week. Using the simple logic of “If 3 times a week is good, then everyday would be great,” I bought a nice desktop 50 count off a friend plus continued to use the Tupperware. Then I used the simple logic “If once a day is great then 3 times a day would be awesome!” So I added a travel case to my collection and I started a part time job in a B & M. I was able to manage this system for about 3 years. Then I joined CP. Then I built a coolerdor. Then I had too much empty space in my coolerdor so I bought more cigars. Then I heard about some great deals on box splits with Backslide and box purchases in the retailer forum. All my "humidors” are jammed full and I just made another box purchase yesterday. Now every time I want a cigar I have to play Tetris in my coolerdor.

 
Great topic Paul.


 
 
My first humidor... Well, I still have it & it's turned out to be the best one (& cheapest) I have as far as maintaining humidity.
If I recall correctly I actually bought it off of eBay, yeah... I know, usually a bad option, it's a 150 count old style spanish cedar lined box.
It took me over 3 months of constant (& this is after 3 years of owning it) trial & error to finally get it to maintain humidity at 65% (now it won't budge).
I now own 4 humidors, getting ready to make a coolerdor with cedar drawers & shelves (they mean it when they tell you being a member of CP you'll need one!!).
 
 
 
Undegreed said:
Now every time I want a cigar I have to play Tetris in my coolerdor.


 
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I can hardly wait Undegreed!! lol
 
Cool topic Paul...Thanks!!
 
 I was about to go to Cuba and knew I would be coming back with some stick so I figured I neede a 'big' humidor (insert lolz here). So I ordered a 100 ct after becoming a member here and reading about seasonning (not bad for a newb no? :laugh: ).
 
Before leaving forthe Island I shipped all that was left inside to Kendall (wich was like 2 cigar I think lol) so I would have alllllll the space I needed when I came back home. I was half right I guess because 2-3 months later I ordered my 2nd to pack up some NC's lol
 
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That was my first Humidor, given to me by a good friend a couple yrs ago. Ive keep the RH between 68 - 70 for 2 yrs. Always smoked a cigar here and there, but kept this humidor to try to revive the sticks inside....After joining this community a few weeks back, Ive been taking the OWNING a humidor alot more serious, trying to build my own stock of smokes, rather then buying one here and there, smoking it that day and calling it good.
 
Short, shitty story, But there it is. 
 
My wife got me my first humidor for Christmas a bunch of years ago.  It's just a box with a nice inlay of a tobacco leaf on the lid.  I had no idea what I was doing back then, and used/trusted the little foam disc and analog hygrometer.  I really didn't know any better at the time, so it was all good to me.  Later, once I started learning much more about cigars, smoking, and storage, I bought a slightly larger, yet still relatively cheap, humidor and did it the right way.  I now have a mini-fridgidor downstairs that I am slowly filling up.  I still have that first humidor, but I use it to store my accessories now.
 
I need to come up with a better method of storing my singles in the fridgidor.  I don't have the air flow inside that I'd like to have.  I really should just take some measurements and have some shelves made, but not really sure how I'd do that inside with all my boxes taking up so much room.
 
Any wife that encourages the hobby=KEEPER!!! That being said...my wife bought me a 10 count travel humidor and that was the first. The first "real" one was a 25 count Savoy. Still have it and still with the wife also :)

C
 
I was smoking the occasional cigar generally purchased while out at a bar and decided to collect a few sticks to smoking at home. So I purchased a small desktop humidor many years back from a B&M, I think it holds 10 sticks. I went that small because "I would never need or want any more". We all know how that turns out now that I have a wineador and a 100 count humidor. I still use the small one as my quarantine humidor. I had no clue on how to set that first one up and back then you had a B&M or books for info. Needless to say I probably ruined more cigars that I saved back then. 
 
My wife and I were at the mall and I had been smoking maybe one a year.  We went into a small smoke shop as we normally did because we both love the smell of the place and they had a clearence on a small 40-50 ct humidor with a glass top for $29.99.  So I bought it and the guy talked me into buying a "house pack" of 30 cigars because it would help me keep the humidity regulated if it was over half full of sticks.   I used that thing until just over a year ago when I bought a 100 ct, then 2 months ago I bought a wineador.  Amazing how fast things change when you're a member of CP.
 
I got my first humidor in college after one of my fraternity brothers started working at the local B&M. He gave me such great deals that I quickly found the need for a humidor so I bought a cheap 150ct desktop unit off ebay. Several years later when I got married I bought my second 300ct desktop humidor because my collection started to grow. now I have outgrown both so I'm making a wineador.
 
Paul, your wife sounds awesome, mine just gives me shit about smoking cigars because she hates the smell.
 
Mine was a Montecristo Afrique desktop with a glass lid from C-Bid. Still use it to this day.
 
About 4 months ago I was invited to have a cigar with a small group from my church. Had a great time and thought that if i am going to do this on a regular basis I will want to have a stock of cigars instead of running to a B&M (60 mile round trip) every time we get together. So did my research for humidors and asked for one for Christmas. Wife bought the one I requested, a Venetian 150 ct. in gloss black along with a 20 ct. sampler of some nice cigars to boot (wasn't expecting that). Now am getting together at least once a month with the gang and looking forward to having a cigar during men's league every week at the local golf course this summer.
 
Picked up my first humidor from cheaphumidors back in the fall of '08.  I think I bought a 10 pack of Gurkhas from them as well to start filling my humidor.  My wife didn't discourage or encourage the idea, so I figured...why not?  Up to that point I had smoked cigars during poker night @ the frat house in college, but started smoking more cigars after I joined a golf club and was playing with other members who happened to enjoy cigars.  Since, then I've never looked back.  In less than four years time I've purchased the 50ct humidor I started with, a 150ct humidor, a 250ct humidor, a 5ct Cigar Caddy, and 18ct Cigar Caddy, a 50qt cooler, three 150qt coolers and a locker at my local B&M.  I'm now looking at getting another 150qt cooler as I'm almost out of space again.  
 
Aint it hard to keep up with the invetory with all those different stash Chen? 
 
My first one was a teeny little black faux leather humi from CI....like a ten count, something like that.  Seemed like plenty at the time..... :whistling:
 
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