Humidor Organization

[DePixeler]

Well, I've started the horrible downhill slide. I joined Cbid and have been winning auctions :0 I'm doomed I see already. Anyway, as a newb, I've now graduated from the tupperdor to a new humidor from Cheaphumidors. It's an ok mid sized unit with a removable shelf, (no drawers) probably like all of you have had at one time or another. It's seasoning as we speak and I have 70% beads ready to go so before I load it I thought I'd ask...

Do you have an "organization" to how things are in the humi? Good stuff on top or bottom, everydays on top? Stack stuff or one layer only? Creative use of dividers etc. I almost feel foolish asking but I'll bet someone has already pondered this.

Thanks

 

[Bxcigrfan]

where ever i can fit them is where they go. i do have one humi that for my hard to get my hands on sticks that i picked up here on CP but the others are full of different things because since i am a newbie any stick is a new journey

 

[bpj87]

One of my favorite pasttimes is rearranging the sticks in the coolidor. :laugh:

Here's one bit of advice that I can give you to make better use of space. In a normal humidor, place all of the 5" and under sticks perpendicular to the normal orientation. Place the divider against the heads/feet of these sticks, and use the remaining space for longer sticks. Try to make rows of the same length such that you can perpendicularly place an appropriate number of short sticks above.

 

[rramstad]

I've been organizing group buys of blank cigar bands for quite a few years now. I use them to label all the singles as they come in, so I know where (or who) I got them from and when. It's invaluable when trying to keep a bunch of shelves or trays organized... by marking things accurately I can always be smoking the oldest stuff in my humi.

I still have leftovers from the last buy, if you want some, look at topics I've posted in, or started, or do a search on "blank band". Yow!

 

[H311oLHD]

I've been organizing group buys of blank cigar bands for quite a few years now. I use them to label all the singles as they come in, so I know where (or who) I got them from and when. It's invaluable when trying to keep a bunch of shelves or trays organized... by marking things accurately I can always be smoking the oldest stuff in my humi.

I still have leftovers from the last buy, if you want some, look at topics I've posted in, or started, or do a search on "blank band". Yow!

Take him up on his offer, you will not regret it! I made the mistake of buying and receiving TONS of cigars, without putting a date on them. Every few packages I receive now, I take some time out to label the cigars with a date. You will be glad you did and there's no one better to order from then rramstad! :thumbs:

-Aaron

 

[Mabpi]

I've been organizing group buys of blank cigar bands for quite a few years now. I use them to label all the singles as they come in, so I know where (or who) I got them from and when. It's invaluable when trying to keep a bunch of shelves or trays organized... by marking things accurately I can always be smoking the oldest stuff in my humi.

I still have leftovers from the last buy, if you want some, look at topics I've posted in, or started, or do a search on "blank band". Yow!

Take him up on his offer, you will not regret it! I made the mistake of buying and receiving TONS of cigars, without putting a date on them. Every few packages I receive now, I take some time out to label the cigars with a date. You will be glad you did and there's no one better to order from then rramstad! :thumbs:

-Aaron

All very good suggestions, especially about blank bands. After a while you can forget what you have. To address your actual question, maybe there is something in the water in Florida causing some BOTL's to suffer from OCD when it comes to cigars. I have several humidors to accomodate different sizes. Ok, my torpedos and rubustos share a large humi but are still "properly" separated. Yes, I am a sick man and a bit anal retentive however find that when I do choose to smoke, I always have a particular cigar size in mind.

 

[H311oLHD]

I've been organizing group buys of blank cigar bands for quite a few years now. I use them to label all the singles as they come in, so I know where (or who) I got them from and when. It's invaluable when trying to keep a bunch of shelves or trays organized... by marking things accurately I can always be smoking the oldest stuff in my humi.

I still have leftovers from the last buy, if you want some, look at topics I've posted in, or started, or do a search on "blank band". Yow!

Take him up on his offer, you will not regret it! I made the mistake of buying and receiving TONS of cigars, without putting a date on them. Every few packages I receive now, I take some time out to label the cigars with a date. You will be glad you did and there's no one better to order from then rramstad! :thumbs:

-Aaron

All very good suggestions, especially about blank bands. After a while you can forget what you have. To address your actual question, maybe there is something in the water in Florida causing some BOTL's to suffer from OCD when it comes to cigars. I have several humidors to accomodate different sizes. Ok, my torpedos and rubustos share a large humi but are still "properly" separated. Yes, I am a sick man and a bit anal retentive however find that when I do choose to smoke, I always have a particular cigar size in mind.

GUILTY! I do the same exact thing, but instead of different humidors, I have different ziplock bags in my cooler for each size. It does actually save me sometime when I am trying to select a cigar. (At least that's what I tell myself) :laugh:

 

[GolfNut]

Yeah well on the OCD front, I built a spreadsheet that tracks the cigars as they come in/out:what/type/qty/price/who or where from, date, etc. I have it set up for my desktop humi and my big chest humi.

Continuing on the OCD front, I went ahead and put all the cigars in the chest in cedar lined cigar boxes..alphabetically and then labeled the boxes so I'd know what's where.

Nuts?? yeah I guess so, BUT it sure is easy to find a stick now, and with a few keystrokes I know what I've got on hand at any given moment!

willing to share that spreadsheet template with anyone (well, any other OCD nut like me)here that would like it. Works well with beginners like me with a small inventory.

send me a PM with your emaill address and it's on the way.

 

[Shooter]

I just group singles by brand. Always make sure I write the date purchased with a Sharpie on the box. Other than that it gets to complicated. Its a great feeling, diggin around and finding a 4-5 year old stick you forgot about. That is one thing I enjoy.

 

[Satchmo]

I have a Padron drawer, Fuente, Pepin, Litto, etc. Habanos in their own humi. The better you can organize the box, the less you have to handle the cigars, the less potential to damage them.

I'll put a vote in for Bob's blank bands. Very helpful. See my signature for info.

 

[whopper]

I put my golf "dog-rockets" in my 70 ct humidor.

In my 300 ct humidor I keep my "good cigars" in the bottom. Opus, CC's, Hemingway's, Padron Anni's, etc......

I keep my "everyday burners" in the top tray of my 300 ct humidor. CAO VR, Padron 2000's, assorted singles.

I keep a list of all cigars I have, date, where, who, what, blah, blah, blah. I also have blank bands I bought from Robert that I use as well.

 

[Q_The_Cop]

what I do is darker wrappers (maduros sumatras) on one side of the divider and lighter colored naturals on the other side. Longest on bottom ans shortest on top. that way when I get new ones, it allows me to rotate my stock. Works for me, and looks nice.

 

[H311oLHD]

what I do is darker wrappers (maduros sumatras) on one side of the divider and lighter colored naturals on the other side. Longest on bottom ans shortest on top. that way when I get new ones, it allows me to rotate my stock. Works for me, and looks nice.

In 2 months, you'll stop this. :laugh: :whistling:

 

[Boomer52]

When I got my first humidor I arranged things by strength, mild, mild-medium, medium, medium-full, and full. This worked well until I started liking the medium to medium full strength cigars better and started acquiring more in this category. Eventually my 125 count humi was full and started overflowing into a 20 count as well.

Now that I have started progressing up the learning curve, strength is not the main issue for organization. I got a small wine cooler and now arrange new acquisitions by date received. I have three trays, one box, and one 20 count humidor in the cooler. The top two trays are the oldest, still arranged by strength, and the last tray is the new stuff. Yard gars go in the box and the expensive smokes go in the 20 count humi. This way I am able to separate the super good (expensive) from the yard gars and smoke the older premium stock first while trying to get some age on the new ones.

 

[MC2712]

I've been organizing group buys of blank cigar bands for quite a few years now. I use them to label all the singles as they come in, so I know where (or who) I got them from and when. It's invaluable when trying to keep a bunch of shelves or trays organized... by marking things accurately I can always be smoking the oldest stuff in my humi.



Great idea, thanks!!!!!

 

[Ginseng]

I keep separate coolers for long term and intermediate term storage on the NC and Cuban side. Each of these coolers are arranged Tetris-style. I also keep ready to smoke coolers which have sub-box quantities of cigars arranged roughly by brand/manufacturer in spare boxes. These mixed boxes are arrange Tetris-wise as well. Finally, I keep a cooler for miscellaneous loose sticks. Right now, these are in no particular arrangement inside of loose boxes. Soon, I'll be taking delivery of custom trays that will allow me to better order special cigars including customs and rare sticks.

Oops, almost forgot to mention. For inexpensive and yard cigars, I keep another cooler for stuff like Quintero Brevas, Jose L. Piedras, Mayorga Maduros, Sancho Panza (NC), and HdM dark Sumatra.

Wilkey