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@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Half a candy ass is just an ass. Yes I'm a real man and an ass. You know this.

To @MichaelK, I will say that for me the 6 ft tall wooden humidor in my house, here in Las Vegas at 6% RH today, is just as easy as the two wine fridges that I have. They both require 5 minutes of maintenance a month.

I came over to the 101 thread because I smelled something funny, and I finally discovered it. There's a whole lot of bullshít going on in this thread. For instance, wood is indeed a two-way humidity device. When you have RH spikes in your wooden box, the wood does soak some of it up, though not as effectively as you would hope. Likewise, if the box is really dry and the wood is really wet, it will release a certain percentage of moisture into the box, again, not in the way that would make you sleep well at night.

Plastic will not do that, but then again, there are only two ways you can have a humidity emergency in your cooler, and one of them involves you being a dumbass or a klutz.

I love the reinventing the wheel comment. We have literally reinvented the wheel in this hobby and industry every 2 years going back 150 years.

100 years ago, humidors were lined with copper. They only ended the practice when the price of copper became cost prohibitive. Copper, by the way, is not porous. Of course after that they went back to wood. Why? Because it's fine.

The major changes that I can remember off of the top of my head are green floral foam, which drips out moisture at about 70% RH at about 70° f, which was coincidentally considered gospel for 20 or 30 years. It was the gold standard because of the floral foam, not the other way around.

Then we had that cigar juice bull crap, which was some sort of glycerin gel that you put in your humidors.

Then we had kitty litter. Then we had beads, which were just spherical clear kitty litter.

Then we had boveda. Now we have boost, which claims to be better than boveda, and which I am starting to believe.

We went from no storage to copper lined storage to mahogany storage and now to plastic storage. One day I'm sure we'll have titanium storage or unicorn leather storage or leprechaun skin storage or some other bullshit.

We went no cellophane, cellophane, no cellophane, then back to a compromise of "whatever the cigar comes in."

Anyone who cannot manage a wooden humidor shouldn't have a fishing license, let alone a driver's license, let alone a cigar collection. It's not brain science and it's not rocket surgery. The general rule that I have found is that the smaller your wooden humidor, the more of a pain in the ass it is to keep it maintained.

Rusty hit it right on the head. cigars are more resilient than their neurotic owners who fret about 1% RH in one direction or the other.

Finally, there's no wrong way to do it unless you're inhaling cigars or unless your forum handle is @vision.

Welcome Michael! Glad to have you brother.

@VegasFrank said:

@Vision said:

@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 said:

@Rdp77 said:
This is one of those hobbies that everyone is right…and everyone is wrong. It’s one of those things where you just have to figure out what’s best for you because everyone’s situation is different.

Nope.

Just ask @Vision for all the right answers regarding cigar storage. Aaaand if you disagree he will troll the 💩 out of you 😘

Not this guy.... unless you're trying to store your half smoked cigars in a wooden.... that's a no.... a hard no. I just go with 65 Boveda and done.

Real men have wood. Candyasses use plastic.

You have both. Does that mean you were half a man and half a candy ass?

@Rdp77 said:
This is one of those hobbies that everyone is right…and everyone is wrong. It’s one of those things where you just have to figure out what’s best for you because everyone’s situation is different.

Nope.

Just ask @Vision for all the right answers regarding cigar storage. Aaaand if you disagree he will troll the 💩 out of you 😘