How often do you check your inventory?

[Mckucci]

I have a 6ft cabinet humidor with 75+ full boxes stuffed in there. I pull every box out of the humidor once every 2-3 months, and I go through them one by one, inspecting the each cigar and looking for any traces of wood mites or beetles.

[joeypots]

I check the cigars when they arrive at my door. I used to look at each box once a year or so but haven't done so in years. In fact, I make sure some prized boxes are tightly sealed to prevent oxidation. Let's get Rob to comment on how often he checks the boxes in On Line Humidor and follow his lead.

[leftimatic]

Daily, I only have a tiny collection I'm forever popping the lid on the cooler wondering how I'm going to fit another box in there.

[godpheonix]

with 1400 cigars in the humi i keep a list that i update everytime i have cigars, so i know what i have 99% accuracy at all times. and i do try to move the boxes around but i don't do this regularly maybe once a year.

[mikek]

I have A tower,and A 200 ct. desktop the only time I open the tower is to put A box in or put 4 or 5 of something in my desktop,the desktop gets opened every day.

[Firebender]

Not as often as I used to

[Skyfall]

Check out a short skirt, as often as I can…

Check data loggers, about 10 times a day…

Check FoH, about 25 times a day…

Check my phone, maybe once a day…

Check the mail, about once a week!

Check my cigars, when a box hits the floor and I have to pick them all up…

Cheers! -Piggy

[Skyfall]

I'm in the hardly ever category. My boxes for deep sleep aging are all at the bottom and some vac-sealed. It's way to much work to move all the boxes and check them and move all boxes back.

[dubleuhb]

The cigars I have aging are in bins, I keep an empty bin to rotate. I open one bin and put them in the top go on the bottom, flip the box over so I don't have to rotate in the box or cab. Continue this with all the bins until all are rotated. I do this once a month.

They are kept in a dark corner of the basement with the sweet sound of Compay Segundo playing softly but continuously in the background.

no really I do

OK, I don't anything really....... just buy them and smoke them.

[EuroTrash]

I don't have a large collection, but the boxes that are sitting longer I rarely inspect. However, the open stuff I will peek at daily..well just because I love it. I am also using a temp controlled wineador and still freeze virtually everything.

[CanuckSARTech]

About once or twice a year, when the house is about the same temp and RH as the humidor, I pull everything out and do an inventory. I usually open boxes to check what I have and update my inventory list and note low stock to be replenished in the months to come. Last time I found a bit of white mold in a dress box, glad I caught it. It gives me a chance to check the condition in my humidor and I usually light up something good, always fun.

This is pretty close to mine. Generally once a year here, and I'll pull everything out and check.

I freeze everything, and then go through a regimen for the box's first 6-8 months or so to check on it. So, bugs are ruled out, and generally after 6 months, so are the major mold problems (after a good acclimitization).

With stuff that's gonna be on a long-term sleep, I've been doing the vac-bagging past that period. So, once they're sealed, I just leave them. But I do shuffle through the various open boxes to check. Also, since I've put 1/2"-5/8" cedar in the bottoms of my coolerdors, that really seems to have worked wonders for the cold-zone that seems to form in the bottom, which was a bit of a heat-sink effect from these sitting directly on the cement floor of my basement crawlspace. That cedar has been a wonderful buffer, and everything is very level now (temp and RH wise) throughout the various "levels" within my coolerdors.

I've found it's a bit of a hassle sometimes though, and I really need to do it when the wife and kids are gone for a good afternoon or so - I'll state I'm over 1k sticks, but less than 5k (don't know if the Mrs is around ). Especially with some group buys and online humidor storage, pretty soon all should be levelling off with home storage stuff, so aside from simple annual renewals (customs and such), I'll be good and won't even need to do much of an annual check.

[DrunkenMonkey]

I have a 6ft cabinet humidor with 75+ full boxes stuffed in there. I pull every box out of the humidor once every 2-3 months, and I go through them one by one, inspecting the each cigar and looking for any traces of wood mites or beetles.

That sounds a lot like work to me.

[Lasabar]

Only if something drastic has happened.

If the A/C goes out and the cigars get toasty, I check them. But, otherwise the only time they see me is when I'm deciding their fate and eventually one of them dies in a fire.

[finecigar]

Not very often anymore. Used to love checking them out once a month but now I seem to inspect once every quarter. No issues yet (cross fingers) except for a tiny bit of mold and one SLB that had a decent amount of wood mites but those are a no brainer fix.

[CdnLimitada]

Great question! I was wondering the same thing. I used to look quite often but I have bought quite a lot over the past few years that it becomes quite daunting to do it too much. I am at the once a quarter right now but wasn't sure if that was letting it go too long so thanks everyone.

[Mckucci]

That sounds a lot like work to me.

Yeah, but I actually enjoy it... Pulling all the boxes out, looking at the cigars, inspecting and smelling them. I find stuff I forgot about, or haven't smoked in a while... To be it's enjoyable!

[IcedCanuck]

I currently have four coolers and two desktop humidors. The sticks in my seven drawer humidor get eye-balled every time I go in there which is fairly often and my other humidor is a glass top so I can pretty much see everything in it at a glance when it is closed. My coolers get checked maybe two to three times a year. Pretty much when I have to refill my humidity beads. I never bother rotating boxes within the coolers.

[RijkdeGooier]

I stopped checking on my LT storage, other tha general humidity, once it got it's separate humi's. They stay closed and are opened when it' time to move bixes to the 'smoke now' humidors.

I keep my LT mostly in zip-lock inside cabinets.

[cigardude]

I check/rotate my stash every month or two. I probably don't need to, but I enjoy it and the smell is awesome

[shlomo]

Haven't given a thorough check in years. Have plans to get better organized and hopefully find some more room, next weekend.

I trust my system, so I'm not ever really worried. An extra degree or percent here or there used to have me stressing....not anymore. Not for many years now.

[puromaniac]

I check on a few of my tucked away "for special occasion" sticks every so often just to say hi, you're looking tasty, see you later, but only once a year for my entire stock.

[Habsfan67]

I open it to get a cigar. If that isn't happening regularly,I peek at the hygrometer once a week as a prompt to fill the Oasis as necessary, that's it.

[tjhernandez34]

I check once every three or four months, but my conditions stay pretty regular in my setup. If there were large temperature fluctuations I would probably check it more often.

[bolivr]

Once, maybe twice a year photograph what's there for the insurance policy

[rtrimbath]

I have an 18 bottle wine cooler for my singles that gets opened daily, but most of my stash is in a 150 qt coolidor I check about every other week.