is it a rut?

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Legend

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For a long while I tried tons of cigars. Then I started to gravitate to just certain ones. So I said to myself. You're getting lazy. Don't want to explore or think. So back to lots of different ones.

But I find myself looking for the same 15 smokes all the time again. Got my go to cheap ones. My regular smokes. My "treats".

When I'm checking the deals online I'm looking for those smokes. Browsing the lots at cbid looking for the same ones. Go to the lounge. Walk the giant humi and go right back to my favorites.

Is it a rut? Or do I ist know what I like?
 
Ive done this too.... I force myself to go back to old favorites that I just blew by in the trying stages ex: Hoyo and Torano. Seems to open up new doors for me, and get the brain thinking about different smokes again...

Think ill try a NC Bolivar again, only had that once!...Maybe a Camacho. Ive been smoking for 4 years now and never laid my lips on a Camacho.

Damn you Legend!...now I have to log into CBid! :tg
 
I think you just know what you like and are sticking to it for now. I would consider a rut more of when nothing tickles your fancy and everything kind of tastes "blah"
 
when you go out to eat, do you generally get the same 3-4 things depending on where you go? I think we tend to stick with what we like. I do not like indian food, I do not eat at the restaraunt. I like steak. I eat at Texas Roadhouse at every opportunity.
 
While I like trying new smokes, I also like some standards that I always pick up when I go into my local B&M. One is the Cusano CC, which I think is pretty tasty, with the benefit of being fairly inexpensive.
 
I try to always keep a core selection. I almost always buy a few samples too because my core selection changes as the years go by. So the samples help me find replacements to sticks I don't enjoy as much as I once did. I personally like the rut. I like knowing about what I will experience based on the selection I have made from the humi.
 
It happens, I found myself doing it too. I try to get a different smoke once of twice a month. I'll go to a B & M and buy 3-4 of them that I never had before (usually 4-5 dollar sticks) and take them out for a try. It's a great way to try what you like without spending a ton. This month alone I tried 4 kinds of cigars I never had before and I have about 20 different brands in my humi that I have been smoking regularly.
 
No, you know what you like, just like my Dad!

Legend said:
For a long while I tried tons of cigars. Then I started to gravitate to just certain ones. So I said to myself. You're getting lazy. Don't want to explore or think. So back to lots of different ones.

But I find myself looking for the same 15 smokes all the time again. Got my go to cheap ones. My regular smokes. My "treats".

When I'm checking the deals online I'm looking for those smokes. Browsing the lots at cbid looking for the same ones. Go to the lounge. Walk the giant humi and go right back to my favorites.

Is it a rut? Or do I ist know what I like?
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If you asked my dearly departed Dad, he’d tell you that he loved Chinese food.
But for him Chinese food was:
Wonton Soup
Egg Roll
Shrimp with Lobster Sauce
Pork Fried Rice
Fortune Cookie
During the mid-late eighties Chinese restaurants started to change from mostly Cantonese food to the spicier, hotter Szechuan/Hunan style we see today.
At a family gathering back then we had lunch in downtown Atlanta.
We cajoled my father into trying something different than his usual fare.
Hated it! That was the last time he ever ordered anything different @ a Chinese restaurant. His feeling was that he found something he liked a lot so why change?
There is a lesson here that relates to cigars & life in general.
Experimentation is great but you run the risk of being disappointed.
Like you, I find myself grabbing sticks that I know I’ll enjoy.
I’ve had too many (not necessarily inexpensive) dissapointing cigars. The bottom of my humidor is full of them. It becomes a chore to smoke them. I’m going to send some to the troops in the near future.
So smoke what you enjoy. Being contented is a blessing!
 
I definitely gravitate towards the same sticks. I think it is because I only get to smoke a few a week. I have a bunch of smokes I've never tried before in my humi and cooler, but when the time comes, I'd rather grab something I know I am going to enjoy rather than try something I might not and have a less enjoyable experience. It is especially true for me during the winter when I have to go to a bar to have a smoke, which only ends up happening a couple times a month. Smoking time is reallly at a premium then and I don't want to risk it.

On the other hand, when I go on vacation and know I can smoke a few a day, that is when I really try new ones because I know I always have time to snag another smoke if the new one doesn't cut it for me.

I know it sounds silly, and actually, it probably is, but that hasn't changed me yet :ss
 
BigCat said:
I definitely gravitate towards the same sticks. I think it is because I only get to smoke a few a week. I have a bunch of smokes I've never tried before in my humi and cooler, but when the time comes, I'd rather grab something I know I am going to enjoy rather than try something I might not and have a less enjoyable experience. It is especially true for me during the winter when I have to go to a bar to have a smoke, which only ends up happening a couple times a month. Smoking time is reallly at a premium then and I don't want to risk it.

On the other hand, when I go on vacation and know I can smoke a few a day, that is when I really try new ones because I know I always have time to snag another smoke if the new one doesn't cut it for me.

I know it sounds silly, and actually, it probably is, but that hasn't changed me yet :ss
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Legend said:
For a long while I tried tons of cigars. Then I started to gravitate to just certain ones.
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Interesting as being new I've been doing nothing but trying new cigars. I buy one or two from each different brand to try out with the reason being simple - trying to find which I really like! After trying most brands I plan on getting primarily what I love the most. Of course, I won't stop trying new ones here and there but I will likely be rotating through my favorites most of the time.

Actually, I've found two of my favorites already. One is the house brand of a local B&M and the other is Bolivar Cofradia. As a result, I now plan to pickup a pack of the Bolivars and am also considering getting a 10 pack of the Suntuoso En Tubos. Up till recently there have never been two of the same stick in my humi, but things are changing now that I'm finding which I really love.


Rev.
 
BigCat said:
I definitely gravitate towards the same sticks. I think it is because I only get to smoke a few a week. I have a bunch of smokes I've never tried before in my humi and cooler, but when the time comes, I'd rather grab something I know I am going to enjoy rather than try something I might not and have a less enjoyable experience. It is especially true for me during the winter when I have to go to a bar to have a smoke, which only ends up happening a couple times a month. Smoking time is reallly at a premium then and I don't want to risk it.

On the other hand, when I go on vacation and know I can smoke a few a day, that is when I really try new ones because I know I always have time to snag another smoke if the new one doesn't cut it for me.

I know it sounds silly, and actually, it probably is, but that hasn't changed me yet :ss
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This was almost to a T what I was thinking. I also find that since the number of times that I can smoke are always limited, I always pick what I know will be an enjoyable experience, as opposed to taking the risk on not enjoying it. Good job! :tu
 
King James said:
I think you just know what you like and are sticking to it for now. I would consider a rut more of when nothing tickles your fancy and everything kind of tastes "blah"
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I agree...once you have experimented with a large variety of cigars, you know what you like. It's good to try something new if you have curiousity about it, but 90% of the time I stick with my favorites.
 
I've been smoking semi-regularly since about April. I've been sampling everything I can get my hands on (AND THERE'S SO MUCH OUT THERE!!!). And a lot tastes the same (maybe cuz I'm not educated yet to have the nuances down). And a lot tastes, well, not so good (I've been having some issues with a strange 'minty', kinda ammonia-y taste, I think).

So I can certainly understand sticking with what you like. I really look forward to my cigar time (and it's usually just on the weekends so that time is really limited), so when I grab a premium cigar, I want it to be good, and of course, good to me. While a cigar can be good, perhaps my own personal taste prefers another.

So why take up this limited time I have with a cigar that I may not like? I'm still trying to stick to sampling but boy, it's tempting to stick with the few I've really liked so far. But then I know there's something out there that I haven't tried yet that'll blow the socks off the ones I really like, so the hunt continues.
 
Yeah. I thin there is that element of do I want to drop 10 plus bucks on a stick I might like.

Guess it breaks down to feeling risky or safe.
 
after 30 years, i know what i like and i tend to gravitate to the same ones. but anytime i'm at my b&m i always look around and see if there is anything new. if it looks good, or it's by a maker i like, i'll try it. right now pete is making so many different things i dont' have the time or money to try all the ones i want!!
 
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