LeafLover Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 My wife and I have an unwritten rule (hope to keep it stays that way): We don't ask each other about how much we pay for our vices. Mine being cigars, her's being jewelry and shoes. Looking at my MODEST stock, looks to be approx around $6,000. And that's my current stock. I shutter to think how much I've spent in my cigar-smoking lifetime. To me, that's shocking that my love for cigars runs this deep financially as I'm no Sultan of Brunei. Then again, at least it wasn't on strippers and booze.
PartagasIV Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 Somewhere between a moped and an E-class...don't bother to count, it's a hobby and a debilitating sickness.
Cohiba Stevie Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 Sweet jumpin jesus christ! 6 large on cigars?! Your collection must be huge... I try to spend in moderation, my current stock would not stretch much past £1000 ($1500) However i have just placed an order with Bob Staebell at aristocrat humidors for a new cabinet.
LeafLover Posted January 22, 2012 Author Posted January 22, 2012 @ Shlomo - I think its better I not know @ CS - My stock is ample. You'd be surprised how many people are in the 50-100,100-150, >200 boxrange.
bolivr Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Round about $3k which I think might last 5 years if I didn't buy any more (as if!!!)
Guest rob Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 I seriously have no idea how much I've spent over the last 12 years.... but even if I speculated I wouldn't be writing it down anywhere for fear of the purse strings being welded shut forever.
shrink Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Then again, at least it wasn't on strippers and booze. You're young. There's still time.
CBL Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 $3000+ over almost 4 years. Not extremely crazy I guess, but as a student that money should've gone to drinking, partying and traveling
Murri Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Don't know and don't want to. Been building up stock so spending more than normal. Whatever normal may be.
cigcars Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Uhm - I've only taken the trouble to count the number of cigars I've purchased through some years when I was all excited and such...I've never really taken the time to pay much attention to the cost. Quite probably because I would have resembled Shrink's avatar! :surprised:
cckandb24 Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 all i know is im feeling depressed that in just the last week I have drop a grand. I just cant stop. so many marcas to explore and then throw in trying aged stock and discontinued stock and it never ends. Last weeks purchases include. ERDM choix supreme box, RG panatelas box, Punch DC box and that hoyo 03 des duiex 50 cab. as soon as these come in i will post some pics of my purchases in the short time of being a member here. if my wife only knew.
Manny Sotelo Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 The short time I've been here at FOH I'd say I've dropped close to 10g's... That's not including my B&M purchases..... Man, now that I think of it, all I can say is wow....
Rushman Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Well I am newly remarried after a 5 year furlough. Rest assured the last 5 years were full of all kinds of vices including cigars, poker, booze, motorcycles, strippers (being honest) and women of questionable morals. Of course never at the same time. Now that I took a aluminum parachute from corporate America I really only have one vice that requires personal expenditures (thankfully) and that is motorcycles. My cigar expense is tidily disguised as inventory and quality control. --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=20.631708,-87.070666
Lotusguy Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 <sticking head in sand> la la la - I don't want to think about it - go away!
Michel1968 Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Like Lotusguy, I really don't want myself to know! Now leave me alone will'ya??
mk05 Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 This is just my theory but, Desktop Wine Fridge (Suspecting eyes, guilt) Cabinet (First standoff) Cabinets (The test of man) Walk-in (Divorce) Insured Warehouse (heart attack) Your estate calls Mitch 1
Bcrowell Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 I recieved my first humidor last Christmas. Since then I have been to the bar twice. I dont care about beer anymore. I have spent somewhere in the ranged of 3,500$. I just sent 50% of my purchases to the troops so I could make room for my cubans. I wish y'all would have told me about this site when I started so I wouldn't have wasted so much on NC's. I have a plan to spen a couple grand in the next year. We will see.
kcheek Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 I would estimate my current stock at around $X,XXX - $X,XXX. Obviously you can still tell I'm in the <50 box category, but dollar amounts are just numbers, and it comes down to what each of us are personally comfortable with. This is how I look at it, would I rather have X amount just laying around extra in my bank account doing nothing or would I rather have that in cigars to enjoy? At my current amount, I would rather have the cigars to enjoy. When X amount becomes large enough, where for my personal situation, I say "Oh ****, that's a lot of money!", then I should back off. As far as my wife is concerned, it's D.A.D.T.
Habanos2000 Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 The total cost is probably all relative to each of our individual situations. All I can say is my annual purchases are at or less than 1% of my income. I know my wife spends more on clothes than I do on cigars. And that, my friends, is my argument whenever she gives me that certain look when another box arrives!
jimschn Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Honestly, its none of their business. They spend plenty on themselves at the mall
CanuckSARTech Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 <sticking head in sand> la la la - I don't want to think about it - go away! Lol. Weren't you supposed to be in bed when you posted this???!!
Lotusguy Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 I had just come back from visiting the, err, ballet...
Torpo Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Around 15K over the last three years. I could have spent that in a much shorter period of time on things that got me into far more trouble than smoking a good cigar.
CanuckSARTech Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 I had just come back from visiting the, err, ballet... Hmmmmm....the bars close at 3....
Tarks Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 I don't even want to know how much I have spent on cigars in my lifetime. I know I spent over $3k in 2011, and that was just my purchases during two trips to Havana!
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