Put
boxes in a cooler with thought toward:
- how many would ultimately fit in the cooler; or
- what the value of the occupied space would later mean to me in terms of cost, investment potential and enjoyment; or
- what my consumption rate was vs. my acquisition rate; or
- how changing tastes can alter what you WANT compared to what you've already STORED.
It is easy to be seduced by low cost 2nd tier smokes and, having mindlessly filled a cooler with them, discover there is no longer space for cigars that actually benefit from aging. Why accept expense and risk to store a $100 box of cigars which, five years from now will taste about the same and be worth about $75.00? You might as well store thousands of tube socks from Wal-Mart in your living room.
I suggest going to a B&M and buying a selection of a three dozen single $4.00 - $12.00 cigars. Take them all home, put 35 on a tray in your lap. Sit in front of the cooler and light up the 36th. Think carefully, staring meditiatively at the cigars and into the empty space for at least an hour, about why you'd want anything other than those 36 in the cooler. DO NOT study the already-filled spaces which are, almost certainly, occupied with what you will later call "mistakes." Insteady, stare thoughtfully at the
empty space as you smoke and formulate a cunning plan about how to fill the vacant space(s) ONE box at a time. Work some version of this process before each box you add to the coolerdor.
Plan your work - work your plan. If you fail to plan then you are planning to fail. A stuffed cooler represents a large investment which should not be executed by impulse.
Elaborated enough?