premium cigar 'hoarding'
leemarshall337
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I'm just wondering if anyone else has this problem. I've gotten lot's of great deals on high-end sticks through this website. Thing is... I'm to the point that half my stock is what I consider 'high end'(msrp 20 bucks or higher, not that I pay that), because I never deem the occasion important enough to burn my higher end smokes. I've had a sampler of God of Fires for 9 months now, and haven't tried one. I have a few Sol Cubano Artisans that are too pretty to smoke, etc,etc,etc.... I burn tons of AJ Fernandez and DPG's(again, thanks to Ccom for making those affordable to me), and the Ccom house labels as well, but I can't ever convince myself that now is the right time to burn my better sticks. I guess it's true; you can't have your cake and eat it too.
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I had the same problem. Finally I realized this: you'll never find the right "occasion" to smoke them all, so just toss out the discrimination and go with what feels good to you that day. Some days that's a $5 stick for me, others it's a $20+ stick - it's just what I think sounds good, and I don't worry about the price. It's not that I can afford to 'throw the money away'...it's just that I wanted to stop putting off smoking my super-premiums. I figure this: there are thousands of cigars, and only so much time in your life...why spend time smoking the cheap standbys, especially when you have better ones?
¨Only two people walk around in this world beardless - boys and women - and I am neither one.¨
You are probably right. I suspect I am missing the forest for the trees. They are just so fun to collect though.
P.S. -- I really do love collecting them as well
I look at it this way, if I can't afford to enjoy the stick, I sure can't afford to buy it and let it sit for who knows how long before I convince myself that "this" occassion is the right occassion to fire one up. Soooo
I buy at least two, one for smoking (after a nice visit to my humi for a while) and the other for that all illusive day that seems to call out for a Super Premie to be smoked.
It also makes discussing what you like or don't like about a particular premium stick difficult, when all you can say is, "yeah I have a couple of those in the humi, but I haven't enjoyed one yet"
"Long ashes my friends."
If I had a Ferrari and never drove it, what's the point in having it in the first place?
First, sunk cost. Smoking a super premium cigar doesn't cost $20+. Buying a super premium cigar costs $20+. Once you've bought it, it's financially just a cigar like any other cigar you own. So once they're in your humi, don't think of them as $20 cigars. They aren't, anymore. They're just cigars you own. You own them all identically. And they're only good for one thing.
(I think of sports teams the same way. I've never understood the logic behind, "Well, Superstar X isn't playing worth a damn, and there's this guy nobody's every heard of on the team who kills every time he gets a chance to play, but there's no way Mr. Owner or Ms. General Manager is going to let Superstar X sit on the bench, with all the money they're paying him." This is stupid. Superstar X's salary is a sunk cost. The whole team's salaries are one big sunk cost. Having sunk that chunk of money for a pool of talent, the thing to do now is utilize that pool in the way that fields the best possible team. If you made a bad decision by overpaying for somebody, don't compound your mistake by then fielding a bad team.)
My second thought runs somewhat in the other direction. Super premiums tend to be cigars that improve a lot with age. So it does make some sense, when you're starting out, to put some of them back and leave them alone for a while. Once you've been buying cigars for a year or two or five, you have a steady supply of nicely aged super premiums that you replenish as you smoke them.
To the topic at hand, I still consider myself to be a bit too green to fully enjoy super premiums, so I don't have any right now. There's too many good cigars out there to sink 20$+ into a stick when I can buy 3 to 4 cigars I still haven't tried for the same price.