Are you a collector or are you a smoker?

[Dukeuni]

I think I have come to the point were I am more of a collector and gifter of cigars then a smoker. With my job, baby at home, etc., I am lucky to smoke 1 cigar a week. I have a huge cooler full of cigars, and who knows when I will smoke them all.

The one thing I do like is that the cigars will last as long as I do. I can keep those cigars in great condition and be fine smoking them in 30 years when I may have more time to smoke ;-)

[HK3-]

smoker

[BlindedByScience]

Both. While there are sticks "...I'm saving...." nothing is free from risk of fire damage at some point.....

Originally Posted by NotFromHere

Both. While there are sticks "...I'm saving...." nothing is free from risk of fire damage at some point.....

[Stevez]

I postd this very same question several years ago on another board and the results were very interesting. I don't remember percentages, but it was good research. I smoke everything I buy and I'm not very good about aging things I really like. Usually the ones I keep the longest are the ones that disappointed me for some reason. Everything's smokable in my humi. Steve

[MajorCaptSilly]

Both, really. I have some special cigars that will wait for an appropriate time to smoke. All the rest air fair game. I intend to smoke all of them someday.

MCS

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by CRIMPS

• That is a special stick... for a special occasion.
• I only have one of those. I don't want to smoke it now.
• Holding on to this stick, I want to share it with a friend.
• This cigar needs a little more time.

But, most of all, it seems like I am starting to become a collector as there is a good percentage of cigars I am not smoking just because... Not exactly sure why that is... Maybe I just want to show off my stash. Sounds completely douchey... Ironically, the cigars I think about smoking the most are the cigars I am NOT smoking.

Never, ever save them for the sake of saving them.
Three and four on your list make sense to me. One and two would never apply for me.
Tomorrow may never come and someone else may enjoy them rather than you and who knows if they will be wishing you were still around to enjoy it.

Originally Posted by MajorCaptSilly

Both, really. I have some special cigars that will wait for an appropriate time to smoke. All the rest air fair game. I intend to smoke all of them someday.

MCS

Except I try to make that "appropriate time" hurry up and arrive.