too tight to breathe
I have a 100 count humidor with 113 sticks in it. The only reason it doesn't have 137 in it is I smoked two, then I shot four off in the mail this morning... oh, and eighteen are in an overflow cigar box, cause there's no room for them. I tell ya it's tight in there. Tight. Tighter than midget snatch in a pickle factory.
Ain't my fault. I swear. Sure, I did buy two boxes recently and threw them in there, along with a couple dozen of those giftie stix that keep on coming in the mail, I dunno why. I estimate there were no more than maybe half a dozen others which I legitimately bought... But what happened is, Saturday I got avalanched. I did a guy a solid wrenching on his motorcycle so he had c.com shoot me three boxes, then c.com added two sticks, cause that's how they do, then our BOTL imgembo sent me a book to read, but when he bent over to put the book in a priority mail box apparently four sticks accidentally fell out of his shirt pocket and landed on the book. So here I was, sitting on a two thirds full 100 count when the mailman dumps 66 more on me. I gotta say, this is a cheap hobby.
Cripes. I had any sense at all, I'd a started collecting krugerrands instead of smoking cigars. Shows how screwed up my priorities are.
So my question is, I got these sticks in so tight I have to sit on the lid to turn the key. Do I need to rotate them from time to time? Should I dig the bottom ones up to the top for a breath of air every few?
How bout the poor guys ostracized to the box. Do they need to come visit their little friends in the humi while others rotate out to the box?
It's a nightmare I tell you.
Ain't my fault. I swear. Sure, I did buy two boxes recently and threw them in there, along with a couple dozen of those giftie stix that keep on coming in the mail, I dunno why. I estimate there were no more than maybe half a dozen others which I legitimately bought... But what happened is, Saturday I got avalanched. I did a guy a solid wrenching on his motorcycle so he had c.com shoot me three boxes, then c.com added two sticks, cause that's how they do, then our BOTL imgembo sent me a book to read, but when he bent over to put the book in a priority mail box apparently four sticks accidentally fell out of his shirt pocket and landed on the book. So here I was, sitting on a two thirds full 100 count when the mailman dumps 66 more on me. I gotta say, this is a cheap hobby.
Cripes. I had any sense at all, I'd a started collecting krugerrands instead of smoking cigars. Shows how screwed up my priorities are.
So my question is, I got these sticks in so tight I have to sit on the lid to turn the key. Do I need to rotate them from time to time? Should I dig the bottom ones up to the top for a breath of air every few?
How bout the poor guys ostracized to the box. Do they need to come visit their little friends in the humi while others rotate out to the box?
It's a nightmare I tell you.
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Gotta call a halt to it somewhere.
My tower is quite resilient and can withstand quite a bit. ROFL!
As I posted elsewhere, I have settled on five go-to stix to stock. Five stock stix times twenty robustos per bundle or box equals 100 items right there. Add the 30 or 40 miscellaneous which always seem to be hanging around, and your total is 130 or 140. Now when you stuff 140 into a 100 count humi that's what we used to call a blivet back in SoCal (a blivet is a hundred pounds of manure in a fifty pound bag). Something's got to give.
So I really have no choice. If I am going to stock five dailies, then I will necessarily need another humidor for the miscellany.
Sheesh.
Still, though, the question remains ::: How do you handle a stuffed tight humi? Rotate? Not? How about an overflow box? Rotate into the humi, others out? Just smoke 'em and don't worry?
No worries. I have a couple motorcyclists in my cross hairs. Plus, get this: I have a plan to hit some of these guys I see holding cardboard signs at intersections. Gonna fabricate some little splosives, ride by, ask their pleasure, drop a quick grenade, and ride away. Merry Christmas to all, I say. Did that couple years back with bags of snacks from the dollar store. Great fun.
High end/aging=coolador
Ready to smoke=humidors
Normal/everyday/not to your liking anymore=tupperador
That's how I manage my stuff but good luck
From a few articles I read a few years back I've read that periodically its good to rotate your stock and I've even read on an article in the Ccom newsletter a while back that it is recomended to reseason the humi twice a year. So I know its an option to rotate if you like.
But llike DD said I think folks can overthink at times becuae I know this much handling of the cigars pretty much guarantees that no plume with ever develope and adds to your chances of damaging the cigars. So that argument would lead me to beleive like DD said, its better to leave them be and do their thing untouched.
So I guess the moral of the story is . . . make your own normal and do what you lfeel like doing. As long as you are enjoying the hobby I thinkg your doing it right.