How long before you got your first "nice" humidor?

Joined Mar 2004
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Just a "for fun" question, really...

I was wondering how long it took you to buy your first good quality humidor after you started smoking... By good quality I'm not so much referring to a certain price, but rather something that you bought because you wanted a nice looking, well-made humidor.

I've only had the cigar bug for a couple weeks and I'm already tempted to get a nice 150+ humidor for the living room.




thanks
 
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Ladies and gents, we've got a live one!!! How many of us didn't feel like that too? As for me personally, it took a few months to buy my first. To this day, I've still only got four desk tops, which altogether can hold over 200 Churchill sized cigars. I decided to stop there, although at one time I toyed with buying an Avallo cabinet. My first humidor, although inexpensive, was and still is very nice, for me anyway, and . . .

YES, YES, YESSSSSSSSSSS, I ADMIT IT!!!

Hello, my name is Bloofington, and my first humidor came from, it came from, . . .

Group Leader: Relax Bloof, you're among friends now, you can share EVERYTHING with us.

Okay, myfirsthumidorcamefromthe'T'wordbye.
 
I started with a decent 25'er. By decent I mean the lid didn't fall off when I opened it. :lol: I was able to hold out a WHOLE year before I purchased a nice birdseye maple 200 cigar capacity desktop.
 
Might never get to the "really nice humidor" stage Sander. I currently get by with three, "this will do me for now" humidors. I dream about the big cabinet humidor with the set and forget humidification system but with 2 kids in college and a third that plays year round sports my cigar budget is pretty strained all the time. The three I have do me just fine though, I can't complain.
 
my first humidor was a this will do me for now 25 capacity desktop, fairly recently i bought a "nice" 30 count desktop, and im in the process of building a coolerdor (120qt) for all my boxes. I think ill be good for a while after i get finished.
 
If I may chime in here I have a slightly different outlook on this as I started my hobby backwards and am really happy that I did. I realize most people start really cheap and work their way up. I on the otherhand worked out of a cigarbox with a humidifier for the first 4 months until I made my investment in a $200.00 40-50CT humidor. Not horibly expensive but not cheap either (around Diamond Crown Quality) and it was the best move I ever made. All my friends bought cheap ones which they have since thrown away. and hold on I need to clear the tears from my eyes. My first humidor is the prize of my collection 10 years later and I plan on passing down to my son when he is old enough to smoke. I love that I can say, "This was my first Humidor" It also smells amazing in there from the storage over the years.

So my opinioon to your question is, if you really think this is something you are going to get into, buy something you think you will always like.
 
currently using a desktop, and a cooler. spent 5 yrs with none. just stuck em in consol of car or on dash of truck. currently looking at 300-500 ct. humidors. and unless i find something nice and reasonably priced, i will be buying a 7 drawer "T" special or jr's bookcases. found many nice ones from 600.00 to 2000.00 but cant justify that at this time.
 
My father-in-law, who is a long time cigar smoker, gave me my first desktop humidor (10 years ago), which I still have and use. It holds 120ct, kiln dried spanish cedar on the inside, solid mahogany outside. I have one other desktop humidor (it's 100ct) and 3 years ago bought a cigar cabinet for boxes of smokes.

cian
 
When I first got started with my boyfriend on cigars, we were so worried about screwing up the cigars, we went straight for a 50ct cherry wood humidor, never even thinking that we'd ever fill it. Then I developed a taste for Acid and Natural cigars along with CAO Flavours so I had to get a separate humidor for those, another cherry wood box because heaven forbid we don't color coordinate! Then for Christmas I lost my mind briefly and put down $300 on a nice maple glass top 150+ cigar humidor. That one is strictly for the really high end stuff. (Yes it also matches the other humidors) :lol:
 
a chick that likes cigars... sweeeet.... i need to find me one of them.
 
my MIL, God bless her, bought me a beautiful Koa wood humidor.
Holds about 50 cigars. Last Christmas she gave me a box of Montecristo #2's This christmas will probably be the same. All I can say is "God bless her and may she live to a ripe old age!"
 
Psss,

Those are terrific humidors. You are a fortunate man to have such a great wife who understands it is "about more than just smoking cigars".

cian
 
cian
Actually it's my mother in law (MIL) who is the generous one.
My wife took up smuggling once to bring me back a box of
something that is hard to find in America, she's a keeper.