Would anyone like to help me start my brother's cigar collection??
oldsoulrevival
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Well, my brother has been living at home part-time for the past year as he travels in between DC (work) and Ohio (where he recently bought his first home). While it wasn't an ideal situation to be away from his wife so much, he had to do what he had to do in order to make money for his new family. Over that time, we have had countless nights on the porch or in my back yard sipping on wine or whiskey and smoking cigars (many of which were given to me by CCOM brothers and sisters).
Sadly, but fortunately, all that is about to change. He recently got an amazing new job at a great law firm close to his home in Ohio, and will be moving out in a couple weeks, and it's slowly starting to hit me that my brother and close friend isn't going to be around but maybe twice a year to hang out, and that my cigar smoking buddy list will be cut in half. All of this has made me think about how fortunate I am to have been able to spend an extra year with my older brother during my final years of college, something many people do not get an opportunity to do. We've built a close relationship over the past year or two, and a lot of it is due to our time spent talking about life over the many cigars we've shared. He doesn't actually have of his own cigars or humidor - he will sometimes provide something to drink, and I always provide the cigars for our smoking and he loves it as much as I do.
Anyway, I'll cut the nostalgia and get to my point. I really want to be able to give him a great gift to take with him to Ohio, not only as a goodbye gift, but as a house warming gift, new beginnings gift, etc, and I was thinking, what better gift than a new humidor with some great cigars!? That's all fine and dandy, but I am a college student, with mounting debt, in one of the most costly cities in the country, and I can't really afford to do it right, and was wondering if some of you might like to help me send him to Ohio with a package worthy of the CCOM forum name.
If you would like to help, in any way, please send me a PM letting me know what you can send, and I'll give you my address. Any cigars, lighters, cutters, humidors, accessories that you'd be willing to donate are more than welcomed! I'd like to have it put together by the end of next week because he is leaving just after that.
THANKS!!!!!
Sadly, but fortunately, all that is about to change. He recently got an amazing new job at a great law firm close to his home in Ohio, and will be moving out in a couple weeks, and it's slowly starting to hit me that my brother and close friend isn't going to be around but maybe twice a year to hang out, and that my cigar smoking buddy list will be cut in half. All of this has made me think about how fortunate I am to have been able to spend an extra year with my older brother during my final years of college, something many people do not get an opportunity to do. We've built a close relationship over the past year or two, and a lot of it is due to our time spent talking about life over the many cigars we've shared. He doesn't actually have of his own cigars or humidor - he will sometimes provide something to drink, and I always provide the cigars for our smoking and he loves it as much as I do.
Anyway, I'll cut the nostalgia and get to my point. I really want to be able to give him a great gift to take with him to Ohio, not only as a goodbye gift, but as a house warming gift, new beginnings gift, etc, and I was thinking, what better gift than a new humidor with some great cigars!? That's all fine and dandy, but I am a college student, with mounting debt, in one of the most costly cities in the country, and I can't really afford to do it right, and was wondering if some of you might like to help me send him to Ohio with a package worthy of the CCOM forum name.
If you would like to help, in any way, please send me a PM letting me know what you can send, and I'll give you my address. Any cigars, lighters, cutters, humidors, accessories that you'd be willing to donate are more than welcomed! I'd like to have it put together by the end of next week because he is leaving just after that.
THANKS!!!!!
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Question to all: Should I set him up with a Tupperdore and spend my money on cigars, or should I spend my money on a humidor and let him fill it?
I think I want to get him a humidor. The thing is, he doesn't have a lot of free time to smoke like some of us. He works ridiculous hours as a lawyer, so a 150ct humidor will be plenty of space for him to have some sticks he knows he loves as well as some others that he can experiment with. A cooler would be overkill, methinks.
Im in on the donations BTW, pm inbound. Awesome gesture of brotherly love here, and Im happy to support it. :-)
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