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Hello  to everyone here on FOH....  I'm excited about learning more and getting more Cuban Cigars . I have been smoking NC for a while now and in the last six months I have been smoking CC. I have been testing some samplers finding what I like best and trying to show some restraint and patients in purchasing boxes of CC, cause there all so damn good, much more richer, smoother and the cuban tobacco much better then NC to me. I also don't have the space for them just yet, I just have a Newair AW 181E wineador and can't store many boxes. Question when did you go full out and upgraded your storage capacity  purchasing and collecting lots of CC. one or two years, and on average how many boxes did you buy a year..?  I purchase my first box of Bolivar's coronas jr. this pass June in Grand Caymans on vacation and loved them. I've been trying samplers and getting some from trusted friends since. These are what I've check out to date.

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Again glad to be here and look farward to your informative replies

Thanks EddieG23

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Welcome, Eddie!

You will become one of two kinds of people: someone who enjoys the finer NC along with CC, or someone who can't go back to NC at all.  If you discover that you are the latter, that will free up a bunch of humidor space, I expect. :)  If you are the former, you may still choose to thin the herd, freeing up space.  You can always offload the less interesting sticks into secondary, less careful storage -- like a coolidor.

In my case... after I discovered CC, I was doing a capacity upgrade every couple months:

  • second desktop humidor (already had one with some NC)
  • a wineador, to store my few NC boxes plus incoming CC boxes
  • a second wineador to store more CC boxes (no longer buying NC at this point)
  • a cooler to offload all the NC and some of the lower-quality CC I bought elsewhere, before I found FoH
  • an Aristocrat furniture-sized humidor with 3500 stick (~130 to 150 box) capacity

That final upgrade was a huge leap in capacity, and I consolidated everything into it.  Trouble is, 9 months later, it's now nearly full!  I've started being a lot more selective about purchases. :) 

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Welcome, Eddie!

I smoked NC's exclusively for almost 20 years until I went to Cuba in 2012.  Hooked.  I managed to bring back about three boxes with me from Havana.  Not knowing much about purchasing CC's online prior to my trip, I only had three desk top humi's.  After discovering this forum, I started purchasing a box here and there and had to upgrade to a tupperdore that held about 25 boxes.  As that was filling up, in July, 2014 I took the advice of plenty of FOH posters and ordered what I thought would be more storage than I would ever need...an Aristocrat M Plus cabinet humi, which is supposed to hold about 1500 cigars (60 boxes depending on size).  That humi is now almost full and I have more boxes on the way. 

You'll be smart to listen to the advice of going ahead and getting much more storage than you think you'll need.  It will save time and money going through all the size upgrades along the way.  :D

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Thank you  planetary, monk & stogie for that intro, I'll be down sizing my NC storage for more CC space. I just purchased more CC. Mont #2 & San Cristobal la punta looking to great CC. smokes:unsure:

 

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Welcome @EddieG23, the previous gents have covered it, for a little of my perspective on buying CC's see the thread in my signature.

So glad to have ya!

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