BANDS

[Pilgrims]

So, as I did what what I normally do with the Bands from cigars I smoke at home and shoved it into the empty bottle of Yquem 1975, my birth year, (it was stunning, even by Yquem standards it is a good vintage), I wondered what do most of you do with the bands?

Do you keep some, all, burn 'em, bin 'em?

[Dara]

Used to bin them but for the past year or I've been keeping them and have a glass bowl full at this stage. Someday I'll open them up and put them under a coffee table top maybe!

I'm a 1975 baby too.....we're an excellent vintage !!

[Smallclub]

I have 3 or 4 empty cabinets of Lusitania full of bands, plus a number of carafes, decanters, vases, etc. … and I don't even know why I keep them… I just don't like to throw them for some reason…

[Hafner32]

Never really got into saving the bands unless it was a really good cigar and I kept it to remember that I needed to find more. Otherwise they usually end up in the trash.

[Ginseng]

Stopped saving years ago, except for first time, special cigars.

Wilkey

[Hazza]

I don't intentionally keep any, but every time I sweep up out the back I usually come across one or two that have migrated out of the ashtray.

[backslide]

I have a large glass vase full of bands. To make room for more in the vase I use the bands as packing peanuts when I mail out trades. People really dig getting a 5 pack smothered in bands.

[Cohiba Stevie]

I have a large glass vase full of bands. To make room for more in the vase I use the bands as packing peanuts when I mail out trades. People really dig getting a 5 pack smothered in bands.

Wow! Thats awesome!

[Rye]

I have a large glass vase full of bands. To make room for more in the vase I use the bands as packing peanuts when I mail out trades. People really dig getting a 5 pack smothered in bands.

That's brilliant! I may steal this idea as my band collection is overflowing well past the 'pretty' stage.

Vases, boxes, cubby in my truck, wallet, all full...

[stogieluver]

I've kept about 99% of the bands from every cigar I've ever smoked over the last 10 years. I can't tell you why, or how many this amounts to, but it has to be in the thousands by now. I typically average about 9-10 cigars/week now, fewer than that the first few years. I'm fanatical about it now and I can't stop. I started out thinking I would do something with them if I ever built my man cave, like maybe wall paper the bathroom or something with them. None of them are broken; they're all whole and none have been crushed. They all look just like they came off the cigar. They're all stored in all the cigar boxes I've accumulated over the years.

I need help.

[Overproof]

I've been sticking them in my cigar journal now with my notes. Sounds kinda old lady scrapbook dont it. It's good to look back on your notes and bands I think.

[vitruvius]

I've been sticking them in my cigar journal now with my notes. Sounds kinda old lady scrapbook dont it. It's good to look back on your notes and bands I think.

Although I have only fairly recently been introduced to cigar smoking, I can't convince myself to throw them away and I have started doing just what you describe, sticking a few in a Humidor Notes little black book I bought. I try to add my rating and notes when I think about it.

[Bartolomeo]

Keep them in a clear, glass cylinder jar.....dont know why except they are a great talking piece when the ladies stop by

[CanuckSARTech]

I still keep and maintain my bands and tasting notes in a Cigar Dossier.

[Andrew11]

Kept them for a while but now I'm just throwing them out, unless its a really special cigar.

[AlainZaramian]

For a while I was keeping them in a journal called 'Humidor Notes', but when I lost a couple of them, I gave up and just started throwing them out...

[AussieCanuck]

My wife likes to frame them ! As you can see from the pics there are Cubans in with NC, cheap with not so cheap, it doesnt matter. i think they look pretty good. Its the one part of my cigar hobby that she likes.

[AussieCanuck]

Bugger...they weren't supposed to be sideways.

[ramon_cojones]

I haven't kept a single band and don't regret it. Now boxes on the other hand I can't seem to throw away so I'll reapporiate into small valets, jewelry boxes for the ladies, etc.

[seamus]

I keep them for a while, look through them then start over.

The ones I probably wont see many of again I keep.

[CaptainQuintero]

Bands I don't really keep but boxes, gah I just can't throw them away. I love boxes!

I like the idea of filling up a glass centrepiece with them though, might start doing that. I'm already doing it with the cigar stubs but just for tidiness more than anything