What motivates your cigar acquisitions

[CUBANO]

Over the years I buy boxes of what I like from the different brands to have a variety of different cigar tastes.

[Rogers72]

I did the survey but this is something that is more complex for me...or maybe more simple...not sure. I just try to keep my humidor fairly full. It holds around 10 boxes. When i empty one, I buy another. I only smoke around 3 cigars a week so this is considered "excess" to me but some would consider this a tiny collection. I have most of my usual faves in there all of the time with a the occasional splurge box or singles that i wanted to try.

I don't really consider myself a collector though...I just like to have a small variety of fairly aged stock on hand so i can smoke what i want, when i want.

[kiwiman911]

I am fairly new to cigar, got my first humi 5 years ago but started to buy around 2 years ago

I started by buying cigars in cuba from some friends that would go, they bought from a list I would give them. Now I started recently to buy boxes by myself and I like it a lot... I do have some CC that I like very much but I still by stuff I don't know about, from reading comment by the more expert guy's on FOH I have never been disapointed yet.I like to get in a box split to try CC that I don't know and if I like I buy a box

I have a end table that holds about 25 to 30 boxes and if I have the room...I buy

I buy lots of CC because I like to have a big selection of stuff to chose from and when I feel like it I go back to the stuff I realy love

hope that helps a bit

[edameff]

Wow, I am stunned, if I had penned the answer myself, this is exactly as I would have put it!

Great question. My reasoning is based on a few factors: time, money, variety, liquidity, and the nature of Habanos.

1. Time - It is a widely believed, by me anyway, that Habanos improve in taste over time. When I say time I mean in terms of 5-10 year increments. By purchasing multiple boxes I can sample what are good again candidates now and stock away the winners and ditch the losers.

Another factor of time is that as I age and near retirement I will have more time on my hands. I will expect my cigar consumption to increase, possibly dramatically. By slowly building and aging an inventory of my favorites I won't be caught "cigar poor" in my golden years when I will want to be doing video reviews and peeing off the balcony

2. Money - I have a steady income now. I expect my income to gradually increase as I near retirement (I'm 44 now) but then almost come to a halt when I retire. Therefore I expect to have less capital to spend on discretionary items such as cigars. So I stock up now while I can afford it.

3. Variety - I love having multiple boxes I will be able to choose from. I love gifting cigars also. I want to have the ability to choose from a PLPC to a Lusi to des Dieux.

4. Liquidity - You can always sell a box of premium cigars if your initial purchase is sound. Some marca/vitola will always be in demand i.e. PLPC, SW, P898,etc. When you buy multiple boxes you have a known good quantity you can sell. I would state here that I never buy multiple boxes with the INTENTION of reselling. I'm just stating that this is one aspect of my reasoning behind multiple box purchases.

5. Nature of Habanos and Habanos S.A - Let's put it this way "What is good today might not be good tomorrow" I buy multiple boxes of only what's smoking good now. The Lusi of 00-07 are crap, the Fundadores right now are crap, and the P898 are fantastic as are the H. Upmann No. 2. It’s not a viable strategy to just think that you can pick up a box of any year cigar and expect it to be consistent. I try to lock into a good position when I find it.

With the Habanos S.A. market machine at the redline who knows what will be discontinued next. Who wants to wake up and find out the Partagas Coronas got the ax but the Partagas Serie D No.5 is now a regular production cigar, at twice the costs, oh wait, bad example that DID happen. Does anybody else wonder where the regular production tobacco of the RA898, RA Coronas, ERDR Tanios, ERDM GdE, Partagas SdC1/2/3 is going? Cuban tobaco is a finite product. Habanos S.A. can only make more money if; a. they sell a higher volume of the same cigars, (not happening, look at the numbers) or b. they sell less of a higher margin product. [step off soapbox here].

I buy multiple boxes of regular production so I don't have to buy new, unaged, single boxes of LE and RE. Although some, but very few, are quite good and worth aging, such as the 2008 Mexican RE 109.

[Guest 321contact]

Nicotine! The taste is a great bonus.

[jedipastor]

I'm a HUGE variety guy. I seldom smoke from the same line/marca twice in a week, or even 3 times in a month.

I can count on one hand the cigars that I've had more than 3 of in a 2-3 week period (one of them this week, actually, the Cromagnon).

The downside of this is that I like to have a HUGE variety of stock on hand. When you factor in the whole "buy a bunch of what you like to age it" situation ... you end up with a storrage problem and a wife who seriously worries about your sanity.