I've been saving mine too. For what? I'm really not sure yet... But I always figured some time in the future I would do something with them. Maybe glue them all to something and frame them. Right now I just put them on the sticky side of a Post It note w/ the date I smoked it, tasting notes, my personal rating, etc. It keeps them flat and I put all the Post Its in a Zip Lock until I can figure out what to do with them. (I'm glad you posted this. My Wife thinks I'm crazy. She says, What are going to do with all of these?" At least I can say I'm not the only one).
how about making a lamp? Buy a plain white lamp base and paste on the labels. Or do what my B&M did; use them as christmas tree decorations. The tree was only 1 foot tall. And plastic. Cheesy, but kind different.
Some of the artwork used on the bands are quite interesting...the ones I really like I will paste in my cigar log opposite the page I do my personal review on> For everyy cigar I smoke I have a log/journal entry that I have kept from the very beginnibg. i think the bands are a nice addition.
I usually toss my bands when I finish a cigar, but what I did recently was saved about a half dozen bands from my favorite sticks and made a bookmark out of 'em.
I have framed a couple of montages of mine. Pics are way to hard to post here or I would post them. I am going to put the rest into a scrap book and have been saving a lot of them. The artwork on some is great and others just spark good memories.
I'm going to build a bar and cover the entire top of it with all the cigar bands, then lay a glass over the top of it and seal it off so no moisture can get in.
I'm going to build a bar and cover the entire top of it with all the cigar bands, then lay a glass over the top of it and seal it off so no moisture can get in.
I love this idea! I have been saving mine for a while now and I had no idea why. I think you just answered that one for me.
I'm going to build a bar and cover the entire top of it with all the cigar bands, then lay a glass over the top of it and seal it off so no moisture can get in.
I love this idea! I have been saving mine for a while now and I had no idea why. I think you just answered that one for me.
when you guys are about to do that, if you are a few short just get a hold of me. ill hook it up for ya.
I have a cool antique end table that I pulled out of the dumpster a couple months ago. It's in great structural shape. I mainly pulled it out because I wanted to teach myself how to sand, restain, and finish pieces of furniture like that. It's been holding ashtray on the patio and I still plan on doing all that, except I plan on covering the top with my labels and doing some kind of laquer over them. Not sure how to do all this, but that's the whole point.
I have been saving all of mine since this summer. I enjoy seeing what I have tried. I really wanted to do the notebook with notes so I could keep them all straight and go back to the ones I love. Interesting ideas here. Someday I would like to have a small bar at home and putting them under glass on top sounds like a really cool idea.
If anyone has any labels they are not using that are in good condition I am getting ready to start my table top soon. I do not have nearly enough and could use some help filling it.
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