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Tupperdor
I don’t have a tupperdor currently, and would like to use these so I can separate, label, and stack them, anyone have any experience with them?
They’re better home and gardens air tight canisters from Walmart, I’ve used them to store food and they get a nice seal
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Listen... this will sound cold or snarky...it's not meant to be... but a lot of the things you wonder about and ask for answers on, you're just gonna have to figure it out for yourself with that thing between your own ears. There are always guidelines and schools of thought but your situation is your situation, and as much as we'd all like to help, sometimes it can't be done remotely because your world is your world. Pay attention to the variable you're dealing with, make adjustments, take notes, and learn.
Mybad, thought that’s what the forums were for, I get a lot of mixed answers when I look it up online, I’d rather just ask the guys with experience instead of suffering through trial and error, if you don’t want to answer the question you could just not, I won’t be upset if my posts don’t get any replies, I’ll eventually just do what i think I need to, just easier to bypass it all if there’s already an answer. I value the opinions of y’all here on the forums.
It just gets annoying after a while when a couple people a week come in and ask for our help only to never be heard from again once they receive that help. To answer that first sentence, answering people's questions is 100% NOT what this forum is for. It's a medium for us to share our cigar related lives with each other. What you're doing is similar to going to a public pool, finding the fastest swimmers, and asking them to teach you how to swim. Sure, maybe they're willing, but most people would find that annoying.
I think you’re misunderstanding. It’s not that we don’t want to answer. Like Peter is saying, we CAN’T answer. Each situation is different. We’ve given the basics, beyond that there are variables unique to each situation. Those are what you have to figure out on your own because your, as well as everyone else’s, situation is unique. If your pops lives in the area and he isn’t having trouble I would find out what he is doing different than you and go with that.
I mean, I'll say it just for me personally and not for anyone else, I don't want to answer. I charge $25 per hour for cigar advice from people I don't know at all, it's relatively affordable.
Well the actual description for this part of the forums says “or ask our experts”, I’m not trying to rile you up, I’m just using it as described.
After these resent posts you are in fact riling me up enough to finally post so you need to breath, slow your roll and think before you post. You were fine just a new guy with questions but you are quickly crossing the line to irritating.
And to be clear it's not the questions it's the response that is getting to me and I'm sure some of us. Sucks if you don't like what @peter4jc said but I promise you taking that defensive tone or whatever the fūck you consider it towards a long term member and personal friend of most of us because he did his best to politely tell you to oh my God shut the fūck up is not the correct way to go about it...maybe I'm wrong but probably not
I’m not the one getting defensive, I think I’ve been very reasonable, have i disrespected anyone?
I’m genuinely confused here, at what point did I “get a tone” with anyone?
Ok, when you first posted this thread, I thought you were joking. I've since decided that you were serious so I'll give you a serious answer.
I've got one of these containers and it does a good job of keeping prunes moist, but I'm not sure storing cigars vertically is the best idea, especially if you're having problems with wrapper's cracking. Even if you laid these on their sides you'd still could have trouble getting to your cigars without jostling them. A Brilliance Tupperware container would probably do a better job of protecting your cigars. I did once store some cigars vertically but only some dog rockets (JR Alternatives fauhibas) in a mason jar with some whisky barrel chunks as an infusion experiment because I didn't want to contaminate any of my tupperdors. The infusion failed to improve those cigars.
Do we know your dad?
I’m pretty new to cigar storage so I know my questions seem goofy, but I promise you my posts are very genuine and literal, I had seen a lot of people using air tight jars storing them vertically and figured why not just use a stackable air right container, just thought I’d see if anyone else had tried something similar before I wasted the money. Thank you for the input
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How I read your posts, I don't see you've said anything offensive. What I do see, however, is someone who hasn't accurately "read the room" and someone who wants to be spoon-fed the answers instead of sitting down to "just have a think".
Case in point; nobody uses those canisters - that you should be able to deduce - and why would they not work? Why do you feel you need to start a thread to ask. Calvin's analogy is perfect - learn to swim by jumping in... or taking a beginner's class. I'm confident you can make a decision on the canisters w/o us. Here's another hint; rather than asking "I have these canisters (or I have this question), what can you tell me so I don't have to hurt my brain trying to think for myself" try some things and then come report what you've found - "Hey, I tried these canisters, and even though they'll only hold a few days worth of smokes for most of you, they seem to be a viable option."
What Yakster said.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
I might be the only one here to have experience with using one of these, back when I first started. It's an ok option. It seals very well. But as others have correctly speculated, you have to be extra careful because it's easy to loose your grip on a stick and then it drops fast to the bottom of the container easily causing damage. Or if you drop the whole container, ALL of the sticks might go slamming into the other end of the container. My advice, try it if you dare. You have been warned.
Dude, you're good. From my perspective, anyway. Yes, you do ask a lot of questions, but I see that as you just "doing your homework". You want to get it right, and not spend a lot of time repeating avoidable mistakes.
We here get riled up when people ask the same question over and over again, usually in different areas of the forum, and then ignore the answers and ask again because they're not getting the answer that validated whatever it is that they're doing wrong. Or, if they have a Whynter Humidor, as far as I can tell nobody has one that works satisfactorily, and there are already about 50 threads that illustrate that point.
You have asked for some answers to specific, minute details, but I'm guessing that's just the way your brain works. It's all good.
And, we're chock full of moody old curmudgeons here. Except for me, of course. I'm youthful and vital and will be in a better mood as soon as I figure out which Medicare supplement salesman I should talk to.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Sounds like I need to apologize for blowing up...sorry bud long day 🙄
The astute observer will have noticed that in my pictures of my new coolidor, there is one of these inside said coolidor. They seal alright, but they only hold around 15 smokes and I don't like that they are narrower at the bottom than at the top.
In my opinion these containers are more for folks that want to show off their cigars and try to look fancy or something. The storage space will be quite limited and you will eventually find yourself wanting for space. BUY A COOLER!
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
I set a calendar event in my phone to apologize for what I said in 3 months, if he's still around then. No apology from me until then.
I know my questions are pretty specific and irritating to answer, so I can’t really be upset with the responses, just new to it all and excited. Like @Amos_Umwhat said, I’d just like to get it right and avoid the trial and error if possible, but like some have said, part of it is just figuring it out on my own instead of coming straight here for answers. I appreciate all your responses, no need for apologies.
They grow up so quick.
Welcome to the forum @MrPossum , if your questions haven't been answered adequately I would suggest you get with the forum moderator.
My take on all this is still a new member who is young and said "I need answers. These guys have answers" but didn't stop to think of a forum as a community of enthusiasts or a family of BOTL's, which along with a sense of entitlement or 'I deserve to have my questions answered' has kept him from treading softly as he scoped out the lay of the land and who occupied it. It's a defect that I own, that expects newbs to hang around in the shadows and observe our family and become part of it. When that doesn't happen, and a pup has a level of self-awareness that he thinks it's cool to have a sig line about live fast and eat ass, I guess it's one of my triggers.
Carry on, Mr. Possum. We'll figure this out together.
I’m not a hang around in the shadows kind of person, I don’t feel entitled, I’m just not afraid to ask. I’m not here demanding answers, I’m here asking questions, its all about perception. It’s up to you wether you wanted answer them no matter how stupid they may seem. I have been about as active on these forums as I can since I made the account, unfortunately I haven’t had much time to really delve in as much as I’d like, outside of asking questions. I’m juggling a newborn and 90 hour work weeks on the side so I try to be as direct as possible when I ask them.
That all being said, I’m not here to set burning **** on your doorstep, I’m just asking to borrow some sugar. I understand where you’re coming from, but I mean no disrespect or trouble.
Tldr
@MrPossum as for your containers, they look like they have a rubber seal and they will work. I don't know what kind of cigars you're going to store in those little ones. Maybe all of your extra boveda packs.
As for everybody picking on you, let it roll off Your back. These are pretty good guys they like to give shīt from time to time. You're doing just fine. You're asking questions in the question forum and that's where your questions belong. Some people would rather be a smart-ass sometimes. Myself included.
I didn't read the whole damn thing, but I did read a few. Chris is right in the sense that you could jostle your cigars if you're standing them up right. Then again, boveda makes an upright jar just for standing up your cigars. Bandoleros come in jars from the factory that stand up right. If you're going to use upright storage, don't store your naked sticks. Store the ones with cellophane and you should be okay.
You can buy a Rubbermaid brilliance like somebody else said for about seven bucks a piece at walmart. Each one of them stores about 50 smokes in my estimation, depending on size. I have eight of them completely packed. They work good.
You can get any tote that has a seal around it, or hell probably a lot of totes that don't have any seal around them depending on where you live and depending on how many you want to put in.
Harbor freight knock off pelican cases are cool. They kind of look like traveldores, have a handle for toting, and you can do whatever the hell you want with the open cell phone inside, which won't damage your smokes.
You can get a 15-count xikar travel humidor and take all the foam out to turn it into a 25 count. Those are cool and I have a couple of those.
The quality importers two count travel traveldor is a useless piece of shìt.
You can never have too many boveda packs.
It's okay to slightly depress the top row of your cigars when you're putting the lid on your plastic storage. Don't smash them like hamburger meat though.
I've also always been terrible at reading the room. I've just decided that I'm going to make people deal with me instead of trying to deal with people. #livingmylife
Cut your torpedoes. Once you've cut them, you should have a little cone that you can play with while you smoke them. You can cut them on an angle if you want to open up the draw, but I never liked this and never did it intentionally. I did it unintentionally plenty of times.
I think I covered everything.
Oh and one thing you could do ask to not hurt the feet of your cigars if you store them up right is to put a little bit of open cell phone in the bottom of it. The soft kind, the kind that comes with electronics or with a pelican case.
You're in trouble now, Possum. If Frank is sticking up for you, for sure you're heading down the road to perdition.