Something different for the Newbie

As those of you who have been with me all along, know that I have stayed on a strict budget of $10 or less for my cigars, and I adhered to that very strictly until August of this year. I had come upon a little more money in my budget to splurge, and splurge I did. Cigar bid, like cigar auctioneer is very addicting, maybe even more so than the cigars themselves. Luckily I came across the tall humidor on craigslist for $50 and the guy threw in a huge Romeo N Juliette ashtray that is so pretty we are thinking candy dish instead of ashtray.

As you can see there are 6 humidors all together. The 2 top ones are special to me as they are the 1st 2 I got at Famous smokes. these 2 humidors hold 10-14 cigars and they have been absolutely flawless. I have all my top cigars in those 2. I can leave them alone for weeks at a time and there is absolutely no fluctuation in the rh. The top midsize one is full of  Drew Estate cigars. Ratzillas, Feral pig, couple of uzi's, at least 10 undercrowns, 2 dirty rats, 2# 9's 4 of the new Joya Cuenca blanca's, some of the 1970's.

The Cherry one in the middle is my unwrapped box I have taken the cellophane off of some of the cigars to see what is best in my opinion. There is a very mixed bag in there, and then the other half is the box of La Reloba's I got for $73 at an auction from Cigar bid....

		This is my bid list of cigars I was going after
	Closed 9/18	My Father Limited Edition Corona - Box of 10	Won	1
	Closed 9/15	Fuente Fuente Opus X Lost City Piramide (Single)	Won	3/5
	Closed 9/15	Ashton ESG 21-Year Salute Robusto (Single)	Lost	0/3
	Closed 9/11	Ashton ESG 21-Year Salute Robusto (Single)	Won	5/5
	Closed 9/6	Boveda 72% Humidification Packets - Set of 12	Won	1
	Closed 9/6	My Father No. 5 Toro5 pack	Won	1/2
	Closed 9/2	Boveda 65% Humi-Packet - Set of 12	Lost	0/1
	Closed 8/30	Fuente Fuente Opus X Lost City Double Robusto (Single)	Lost	0/5
	Closed 8/30	God of Fire by Don Carlos Double Robusto (Single)	Lost	0/3
	Closed 8/30	Boveda 75% Seasoning Humi-Packet - Set of 12	Lost	0/2
	Closed 8/30	Colibri Starliner Lighter - Silver	Won	1/1
	Closed 8/30	Stinky 'Tall' 4-Finger Ashtray - Black	Won	1/1
	Closed 8/28	San Lotano Connecticut Robusto 5pack	Won	1/2
	Closed 8/28	Sencillo Platinum Double Robusto	Lost	0/1
	Closed 8/28	Lotus Laser Torch Lighter - Black	Lost	0/1
	Closed 8/28	Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Reserva No. 3	Won	1/1
	Closed 8/28	San Cristobal Elegancia Robusto	Won	1/1
	Closed 8/28	Fuente Fuente Opus X Lost City Piramide	Lost	0/1
	Closed 8/27	Sencillo Platinum Double Piramide	Lost	0/1
	Closed 8/26	God of Fire Serie B Gran Toro	Lost	0/1
	Closed 8/25	Fuente Fuente Opus X Lost City Piramide (Single)	Lost	0/4
	Closed 8/25	God of Fire by Carlito Churchill (Single)	Won	2/2
	Closed 8/25	God of Fire by Carlito Double Robusto Tubo (Single)	Won	3/3
	Closed 8/25	Padron 1964 Anniversary Series Principe Maduro (Single)	Won	3/3
	Closed 8/23	God of Fire by Carlito Double Robusto (Single)	Won	5/5
	Closed 8/23	Sencillo Black by God of Fire Robusto 5 pack	Won	1/2
	Closed 8/22	Best of A. Fernandez 5-Star Sampler - 5 Cigars	Won	2/2
	Closed 8/22	Taster Pack: The 'Full' Selection Box of 10 Cigars & Cutter	Won	1/2
	Closed 8/22	Torano 5-Star Sampler #2 - 5 Cigars	Won	1/2
	Closed 8/22	Gurkha's Gargantuan Grab Bag Sampler - 10 Cigars	Won	2/2
	Closed 8/22	Ashton Variety Sampler - Box of 5 Cigars	Won	1/1
	Closed 8/22	Choice Cuts 54-Ring Premium Sampler - 10 Cigars	Lost	0/1
	Closed 8/22	A. Fernandez Overruns Churchill (20)	Lost	0/1
	Closed 8/22	La Reloba Mexico by Don Pepin Garcia Robusto (20)	Won	1/1

Knowing me and how cheap I am, every win was a bargain.

I got 10 Ghurkas for $25.00 and so far they have all been good, not spectacular but good. The AJ Fernandez are the Cigar International brands, and again good cigar, in fact the Man Of War ruination was one that I will be carrying regularly in one of my 6 humidors. The Ashton Variety pack came in a nice box that is long since gone, but I am aging these a little while for my own purposes. The Scencillo black is a very nice $7-10 cigar depending on where you get them and I got these for just under $4 per stick.

The adventure started to change as I went for the higher grade cigars I had to somehow get these higher end cigars in a package deal that would keep them under the magic number let's just say I got 33 cigars for under the $10 per stick price and that included some God of Fires, 3 Padron 1964 anniversary, and bargain priced San Lotano Connecticuts.

The only time I went off the map, was on 1 purchase, I had only Opus X and Ashton ESG's and they definitely could not fit in the budget and I didn't want to buy any more cigars to average them out. I have yet to have an Opus X cigar and I have had one in the small box for 6 months. I can't say the same thing about the Ashton ESG's I have had 2 so far, and they are simply amazing. I've had a couple of the God of fires too but I am going to be letting them rest a while. My next evaluations will be the Ashton ESG that way I get to smoke another one.

The Newbie