Emotional Shifts

[Wailbait]

Wondering how emotions change when we near the end of a box of cigars.  Are they merely "done"?  Is there a winding down period?  I, for one, find it harder to "finish" any box of cigars knowing that further evolution is always possible so I find myself keeping a couple around which really leads to an undue number of stragglers. .  . 

 

Seeing that it's possible that i might be more price sensitive than others on this board, I wonder if I'm also more sentimentally sensitive as well.  Do others have more sangfroid than me?  In hobbies like wine collecting, for example, its hard to be sentimental - once you open the cork, you have to finish it somewhat quickly.  Can't save that wine for 3 weeks and expect a similar experience.  

Wondering what people's feelings are as they get toward the end of a box?  Nostalgia of memories?  Rosebud sleds and whatnot?  Hope of freed up space in a crowded humidor and better things to come?

[MrGlass]

Depends on the box.  I have one Des Dieux left from the first box of cigars I ever bought and I know I will have a hard time bringing myself to smoke it.  Other boxes I have finished with little hesitation.

[IanMcLean68]

Agreed @MrGlass, depends on the box.  I have some trouble if the cigar in question has been discontinued. I had a hard time finishing off the last of a box of Diplomaticos No.4, and regretted it - at over 10 years old, the last couple of them were tired and over their best IMHO.  I am going to have trouble now finishing of my last box of SLRA now they have been officially discontinued. I only have 8 left. I hope I don't fall into the same trap I did with the Dip4.

[zappaFREAK]

I only regret that I always felt that there was another box around the corner. I usually smoke monte 2s, Vegas robania Unico , Cohiba Robusto, rass, and h. Upmann no. 2s, all readily available,  I then got into some le particularly the Cohiba 66s which I love.  These became so expensive I now regret going thru the 5-6 boxes I went through. I will now treat my talismans and Dante’s with the respect they deserve (hopefully they are as good as I hear.)

[ayepatz]

As an occasional, rather than a daily, smoker, it’s not an issue I run into very often. There are still cigars out there which I have yet to sample, and I know that my tastes will change over time. 

I’ve finished off many boxes, and thought, “I enjoyed those, but time to try something else.”

I have a few special boxes that will no doubt tug at the heartstrings when they’re finished - Sancho Sancho and Corona Gigantes, SLRDC, and more recently H&F 225, for example - but hopefully, there will be other special boxes to take their place, when the time comes.

In current production, I have to admit that I have found myself in a state of near-panic when I realised I was down to my last BRC, a situation I quickly remedied!

[alloy]

When it comes to regular production such as BBF, RyJ Beli's. Sig II's, BPC's. I don't panic. But I was down to 8 of my Parti 898's and I just had to get another box to stash away. When I bought a box of Behike 54's in 2013 (they were BTO June 13), they were so good, I tore through that box. I have one left and have it stored with my smoking 898's and 02 LGC MdO2's, I look at it and think "Nah, I'll take the 898". Can't bring myself to torch it yet. Now I have a fiver of Talisman that I look at but won't touch yet. Is that weird?

[BrightonCorgi]

If I can buy another one easily, I don't care when the box ends.  If it's a vitola I don't smoke often, it's can be hard kill a box and would rather trade the remaining if there is a demand for the cigars.

[fitzy]

If I have another box available of the same cigar it's doesn't bother me. However if I don't I'll be wishing I had already bought another box a year earlier. 

[Guantanamera]

What's the old saying.......smoke em if you got em. I'm in the camp of smoke them when they're good.

[ErikB]

When I get to the last twelve in a box then that’s it , I’ll take no prisoners


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[Hammer Smokin']

once you have a disaster, such as flood or fire, you won't ever regret smoking, or finishing, a box of cigars ever again.

we also resist smoking our "good cigars"....because we want to horde/save.

but lose everything, and start again...you won't look at cigars (or wine, or whatever else consumable you are collecting) the same again.

[JohnS]

@ATGroom, the proprietor of Cuban Cigar Website told me many moons ago that the idea of his cigar blog at www.duskybeauties.com was to provide an outlet for him to have the courage to smoke the many rare cigars he has come to own and be gifted as a result of running CCW. By writing about it, I guess the rare cigar smoked lives on to the benefit of many of his readers.

In the same way, I've drawn inspiration at times to smoke my last, rare cigar in a box by posting about it in our 'Daily Smoke' thread. Sometimes, I've done a more detailed review. That way, I feel a lot better when I can share with others what something like a Cohiba Siglo VI Gran Reserva tastes like, for example.

[PapaDisco]

Ha!  I too start going slower in the second half of the box.  If it's regular production it's no problem, but if it's out of production, or has a lot of years on it, I'm reluctant to see it finish.  Call it 'Zino's Paradox'  , I get closer and closer to finishing the box but never do!

[cfc1016]

There are certain vitolas I have a hard time with. When I open a box of mdo4s they go like hotcakes. Once I can visually tell that I've seriously dented the box... I start placing orders for other cigars, lol. Same for bbf.

[dominattorney]

We would all do well to work toward an attitude of emotional detachment to material things, especially consumable goods such as cigars.  That having been said, it'll be a while before I finish the last 15 of my Bolivar Corona Gigantes.  I know you can still scoop them up at this point, but my opinion on that is, why bother--they're goners. 

[GWG]

I do notice my emotions when i see the boxes wandering past half and even more so when the selection gets close to the end. Yes the eyes do get A little misty... At the end of the day I have to remind myself that I can only smoke it once and enjoy the he'll out it.

A toast to last calls... cheers!!?

[Lotusguy]

The first of a new box is always the hardest. The last one is also difficult for me, if I don't have another box.

[Dave O)))]

We would all do well to work toward an attitude of emotional attachment to material things, especially consumable goods such as cigars.  That having been said, it'll be a while before I finish the last 15 of my Bolivar Corona Gigantes.  I know you can still scoop them up at this point, but my opinion on that is, why bother--they're goners. 

Did you mean to say "emotional detachment"?

[dominattorney]

1 minute ago, Dave O))) said:

5 hours ago, dominattorney said:

We would all do well to work toward an attitude of emotional attachment to material things, especially consumable goods such as cigars.  That having been said, it'll be a while before I finish the last 15 of my Bolivar Corona Gigantes.  I know you can still scoop them up at this point, but my opinion on that is, why bother--they're goners. 

Did you mean to say "emotional detachment"?

....yes. i would be humiliated if I weren't so emotionally detached

[Dave O)))]

LoL, that's a relief. I was worried about you ;-)