What's a reasonable amount of cigars to have on hand?

[loki]

Originally Posted by Da Klugs

Depends on:
How much you smoke
What you like to smoke
The economics of smoking what you like

Lets say you like fresh cigars. Don't really care about sales and such and just pay the going rate when you need them. You also like a rotation of 8 different cigars and smoke 2 a day. Assuming you have 25 count boxes that means 200 cigars. Add in a couple week order cycle and a 3 month "stabilization period" and you get ..... Figure you start with 2 boxes of each and order a new one when you run out of the first.... so 400 in this example.

But.... what if you like cigars that are aged more? It becomes complicated if you are aging them yourself. If you pay the price to buy vintage, assuming they are available (bad assumption) then you don't need any more than in the first example.

Reality is in some form or another many of us purchase cigars with the intent to age them for future smoking pleasure. How long? Dunno, but lets take the 8 cigar rotation out to a 10 year aging cycle and see what happens.

You buy 720 cigars a year for 10 years = 7200 cigars
Then you can start smoking them as 10 year old cigars for the next 10 years. Of course you needed to be smoking along the way as well, so at the beginning of this cycle you need to buy the same 720 cigars a year for "consumption = 7200 cigars. So for the initial 10 year period you buy 14,400 cigars. You consume them fresh for the first 10 years and then smoke the 10 year aged for the next. Of course if you are planning on continuing the cycle... you need to keep buying.


This is all a personal choice that we arrive at by our own logic and preferences. Mine seems to yield around 25,000 as a good number to have on hand.

i think the answer is 17...but i was never good with word problems