Poll- How Many Cigars Do You Have?
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RUJohnny99
Gorilla
This poll is pretty fascinating. (I'm a numbers geek, so I apologize in advance for boring people)
With 190 respondents, the median number of cigars is exactly 300 (half of us have over 300, half under). You can't really use "average" because theres no upper limit & if one person has 19,000 cigars, and the other 189 have zero, our average would be 100, which tells us nothing.
Marketing people talk of the 80/20 rule: 80% of sales are made to 20% of consumers. Well, the top 20% of respondents (38 people) have at least 800 cigars. In our little world having 30+ boxes of cigars on hand qualifies you as a heavy duty buyer & a marketer's dream.
On the other hand, let's look at the bottom 20%. The bottom 20% of people have 78 cigars or less. I'm actually surprised its that many in the bottom 20%, I figured all 38 would be less than 50. If you assume the lowest 20% is the "beginning smoker/collector", this shows a large number of "beginning smokers" have either already bought a few boxes and have seriously started their slide down the slope.
I'll update these figures again if we get more respondents.
With 190 respondents, the median number of cigars is exactly 300 (half of us have over 300, half under). You can't really use "average" because theres no upper limit & if one person has 19,000 cigars, and the other 189 have zero, our average would be 100, which tells us nothing.
Marketing people talk of the 80/20 rule: 80% of sales are made to 20% of consumers. Well, the top 20% of respondents (38 people) have at least 800 cigars. In our little world having 30+ boxes of cigars on hand qualifies you as a heavy duty buyer & a marketer's dream.
On the other hand, let's look at the bottom 20%. The bottom 20% of people have 78 cigars or less. I'm actually surprised its that many in the bottom 20%, I figured all 38 would be less than 50. If you assume the lowest 20% is the "beginning smoker/collector", this shows a large number of "beginning smokers" have either already bought a few boxes and have seriously started their slide down the slope.
I'll update these figures again if we get more respondents.
Just counted today, just a bit over the 200 mark. I could always use some more--my cooler has plenty of space in it haha.
I think I'll cool the jets a little though right now, I've bought ~100 cigars in the last month or so...
And that is what buying a cooler does to you haha
I think I'll cool the jets a little though right now, I've bought ~100 cigars in the last month or so...
And that is what buying a cooler does to you haha
I try to keep around 50-75 cigars on hand the reason being that with the lack of central air I couldn't adequately control the temperature and humidity in the summer and I didn't want to end up with a bunch of damaged cigars as a result. Now for the good part -- AC is being installed next week and I just knocked out a new storage area under the central staircase. I've already claimed it as my cigar and pipe place so we'll see how quickly I can fill it up.
FriendlyFire
Alpha Silverback
I didnt count but I was guessing, it really depends if I'm on the way to a B&M or the way back.
smoke_screen
ChestBeater
I am not going to say how many cigars I have.... The last time I let the nice gentleman on this forum know how many cigars I had, they bombed me to the stone-age.
YOU CAN'T TRICK ME AGAIN!
YOU CAN'T TRICK ME AGAIN!
Still too many.
I want to get down to one tower cabinet, one medium cabinet for loose sticks, and two wine-idors. I'm down to hard decisions, though because now what's left is stuff I smoke all the time.
I figure it this way: I've got 29 years left if I'm fortunate enough to live to be 80; if I smoke one cigar a day between now and then, that's 10,732 cigars.
Some days I don't smoke one; but at herfs I'll smoke 3-4, and on rare days I smoke a couple, so I guess it evens out. More or less.
I certainly don't have near that many, but hell...I figure I'll buy a couple more sticks in those 29 years.
Thing is, I don't have anyone to leave whatever I have to when I do croak.
If I know ahead of time I could fire-sale them; but if I went suddenly, my collection might end up getting sold by my family - non-cigar folk, all - for a fraction of what they're worth, possibly to people who wouldn't even appreciate them or the care I took of them.
So I suppose it's about balance.
We - ALL of us - tend to get carried away to one extent or another with our interests, but for some reason, this one in particular. At some point we'll start to collect rather than buy purely to enjoy. The transition is gradual and goes unnoticed by us 100% of the time; although our families usually see it.
Aging; there's stuff I have that I've had for years, aging for some point in the future, each box with its own expectations as to time needed.
And that's fine...except that if I went tomorrow, those boxes from years ago would go untasted. If I go in 10 years those Gold Medals and other juicy bits of heaven, put off for another day, another year, would have been aged for someone else; one could only hope that they'd be enjoyed as much as you expected to enjoy them.
I won't stop aging cigars. I won't take that joy, that deliciously excruciating anticipation away from myself no matter the dark thoughts that leak in from what Stephen King calls "the crocodile brain" - that primitive, ageless part where the darkness lies in wait for the moments when it senses vulnerability.
But unlike in the past, I won't hesitate to crack open a box or cab if I feel like it, or smoke either or both of those 2001 Cohiba EL Pyramides if the urge strikes.
Don't mind me; most of this is for me, to work it out for myself. I figure this is a good place for it.
And now I hope you'll excuse me, as I have a very nice cigar to go smoke. Or three.
:ss :ss :ss
I want to get down to one tower cabinet, one medium cabinet for loose sticks, and two wine-idors. I'm down to hard decisions, though because now what's left is stuff I smoke all the time.
I figure it this way: I've got 29 years left if I'm fortunate enough to live to be 80; if I smoke one cigar a day between now and then, that's 10,732 cigars.
Some days I don't smoke one; but at herfs I'll smoke 3-4, and on rare days I smoke a couple, so I guess it evens out. More or less.
I certainly don't have near that many, but hell...I figure I'll buy a couple more sticks in those 29 years.
Thing is, I don't have anyone to leave whatever I have to when I do croak.
If I know ahead of time I could fire-sale them; but if I went suddenly, my collection might end up getting sold by my family - non-cigar folk, all - for a fraction of what they're worth, possibly to people who wouldn't even appreciate them or the care I took of them.
So I suppose it's about balance.
We - ALL of us - tend to get carried away to one extent or another with our interests, but for some reason, this one in particular. At some point we'll start to collect rather than buy purely to enjoy. The transition is gradual and goes unnoticed by us 100% of the time; although our families usually see it.
Aging; there's stuff I have that I've had for years, aging for some point in the future, each box with its own expectations as to time needed.
And that's fine...except that if I went tomorrow, those boxes from years ago would go untasted. If I go in 10 years those Gold Medals and other juicy bits of heaven, put off for another day, another year, would have been aged for someone else; one could only hope that they'd be enjoyed as much as you expected to enjoy them.
I won't stop aging cigars. I won't take that joy, that deliciously excruciating anticipation away from myself no matter the dark thoughts that leak in from what Stephen King calls "the crocodile brain" - that primitive, ageless part where the darkness lies in wait for the moments when it senses vulnerability.
But unlike in the past, I won't hesitate to crack open a box or cab if I feel like it, or smoke either or both of those 2001 Cohiba EL Pyramides if the urge strikes.
Don't mind me; most of this is for me, to work it out for myself. I figure this is a good place for it.
And now I hope you'll excuse me, as I have a very nice cigar to go smoke. Or three.
:ss :ss :ss
butterbeezy
Evolving Lead Gorilla
Supply is fairly low at the moment. Less than 50 for sure. I've been saving for a new Macbook. But once i get that... down the slope i go again.
DeadMansHand
Young Ape
As of today, and I say this with a pain in my heart I have never felt before, I have ZERO cigars. I've had a lot of get togethers lately and my friends and I have burned all my stock. Time to start sliding again:hn.
papajohn67
Dead Man Walking
Still too many.
I want to get down to one tower cabinet, one medium cabinet for loose sticks, and two wine-idors. I'm down to hard decisions, though because now what's left is stuff I smoke all the time.
I figure it this way: I've got 29 years left if I'm fortunate enough to live to be 80; if I smoke one cigar a day between now and then, that's 10,732 cigars.
Some days I don't smoke one; but at herfs I'll smoke 3-4, and on rare days I smoke a couple, so I guess it evens out. More or less.
I certainly don't have near that many, but hell...I figure I'll buy a couple more sticks in those 29 years.
Thing is, I don't have anyone to leave whatever I have to when I do croak.
If I know ahead of time I could fire-sale them; but if I went suddenly, my collection might end up getting sold by my family - non-cigar folk, all - for a fraction of what they're worth, possibly to people who wouldn't even appreciate them or the care I took of them.
So I suppose it's about balance.
We - ALL of us - tend to get carried away to one extent or another with our interests, but for some reason, this one in particular. At some point we'll start to collect rather than buy purely to enjoy. The transition is gradual and goes unnoticed by us 100% of the time; although our families usually see it.
Aging; there's stuff I have that I've had for years, aging for some point in the future, each box with its own expectations as to time needed.
And that's fine...except that if I went tomorrow, those boxes from years ago would go untasted. If I go in 10 years those Gold Medals and other juicy bits of heaven, put off for another day, another year, would have been aged for someone else; one could only hope that they'd be enjoyed as much as you expected to enjoy them.
I won't stop aging cigars. I won't take that joy, that deliciously excruciating anticipation away from myself no matter the dark thoughts that leak in from what Stephen King calls "the crocodile brain" - that primitive, ageless part where the darkness lies in wait for the moments when it senses vulnerability.
But unlike in the past, I won't hesitate to crack open a box or cab if I feel like it, or smoke either or both of those 2001 Cohiba EL Pyramides if the urge strikes.
Don't mind me; most of this is for me, to work it out for myself. I figure this is a good place for it.
And now I hope you'll excuse me, as I have a very nice cigar to go smoke. Or three.
:ss :ss :ss
Well Joe if you "still" have to many cigars it looks like we may need to talk again. :ss
Still too many.
I want to get down to one tower cabinet, one medium cabinet for loose sticks, and two wine-idors. I'm down to hard decisions, though because now what's left is stuff I smoke all the time.
I figure it this way: I've got 29 years left if I'm fortunate enough to live to be 80; if I smoke one cigar a day between now and then, that's 10,732 cigars.
Some days I don't smoke one; but at herfs I'll smoke 3-4, and on rare days I smoke a couple, so I guess it evens out. More or less.
I certainly don't have near that many, but hell...I figure I'll buy a couple more sticks in those 29 years.
Thing is, I don't have anyone to leave whatever I have to when I do croak.
If I know ahead of time I could fire-sale them; but if I went suddenly, my collection might end up getting sold by my family - non-cigar folk, all - for a fraction of what they're worth, possibly to people who wouldn't even appreciate them or the care I took of them.
So I suppose it's about balance.
We - ALL of us - tend to get carried away to one extent or another with our interests, but for some reason, this one in particular. At some point we'll start to collect rather than buy purely to enjoy. The transition is gradual and goes unnoticed by us 100% of the time; although our families usually see it.
Aging; there's stuff I have that I've had for years, aging for some point in the future, each box with its own expectations as to time needed.
And that's fine...except that if I went tomorrow, those boxes from years ago would go untasted. If I go in 10 years those Gold Medals and other juicy bits of heaven, put off for another day, another year, would have been aged for someone else; one could only hope that they'd be enjoyed as much as you expected to enjoy them.
I won't stop aging cigars. I won't take that joy, that deliciously excruciating anticipation away from myself no matter the dark thoughts that leak in from what Stephen King calls "the crocodile brain" - that primitive, ageless part where the darkness lies in wait for the moments when it senses vulnerability.
But unlike in the past, I won't hesitate to crack open a box or cab if I feel like it, or smoke either or both of those 2001 Cohiba EL Pyramides if the urge strikes.
Don't mind me; most of this is for me, to work it out for myself. I figure this is a good place for it.
And now I hope you'll excuse me, as I have a very nice cigar to go smoke. Or three.
:ss :ss :ss
I hate to see a fellow BOLT in so much turmoil, so I have few more years left than you, so just leave them to me
Problem solved !Chas
craigchilds
Evolving Lead Gorilla
You're my Papa!
Fishbeadtwo
Lowland Gorilla
I guess it's more than when I started and less than when the next buying frenzy strikes.....probably between 300 and 400 is my guestimate. Oh yeah, Joe if you need to lighten your burden, let me know!:tu