C.A.S. is real...........I've become an addict!
Rolanddeschain
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Hi........I'm Dave, and I have CAS.
For me it isn't as much the smoking aspect, I enjoy it when I have time but I'll go a week or so without.......Its the damn BUYING!!!!!!!!! I can't seem to stop watching online sales, auctions, etc.....I've visited several B+M's in the lat week and picked up a few here and there.......Can someone please tell me there can be a happy ending to this?:) LOL
Dave
For me it isn't as much the smoking aspect, I enjoy it when I have time but I'll go a week or so without.......Its the damn BUYING!!!!!!!!! I can't seem to stop watching online sales, auctions, etc.....I've visited several B+M's in the lat week and picked up a few here and there.......Can someone please tell me there can be a happy ending to this?:) LOL
Dave
Long days and pleasant nights,
Roland
Roland
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The struggle is real"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter1 -
And the beat goes on......
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Do look here, I'm an enabler.... What did ya get?3
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The solution is to indulge more, and buy bigger coolers
Brett"When walking in open territory bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them."2 -
The only two ways out of CAS are 1) dying - not always fun, and 2) move into a Tiny House with no garage or outbuilding. I never thought I would regret owning a house with a basement, but I do.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis3 -
An intervention with your closest BOTL @peter4jc may be in your future. He is a role model for control and restraint.
Well, maybe not, but he is a great guy to herf with and discuss this issue.
I obviously can't help. When I get a little money I buy cigars, if there is any left I buy food.Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.3 -
If it's a choice, you have to go with cigars; you can't smoke food. At the very least, it's hard to light.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis10 -
I have made the decision to buy cigars instead of food a few times. I saved my lunch money over time and bought a box. I regret nothing. I am in trouble with my wife too, right Nick @Usaf06. I smoke a lot more than the op though. I will say this I have never smiled while spending large sums of money before this hobby."We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give". Winston Churchill.
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It's real. It's fun. It could possibly get you put in the doghouse. Good luck.1
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Yeah im gonna be in trouble today and tomorrow when the mail comes"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter5 -
there will always be sales & there will always be coupons.
don't feel like you need to buy everything at once....there will always be good deals out there.
* I have a new address as of 3/24/18 *7 -
Hi Dave, welcome. Since it's September first, and tracking informs me I have yet another package waiting on the porch today, I'm thinking of gentlemanly restraint until October.Rolanddeschain said:Hi........I'm Dave, and I have CAS.
For me it isn't as much the smoking aspect, I enjoy it when I have time but I'll go a week or so without.......Its the damn BUYING!!!!!!!!! I can't seem to stop watching online sales, auctions, etc.....I've visited several B+M's in the lat week and picked up a few here and there.......Can someone please tell me there can be a happy ending to this?:) LOL
DaveJoin us on Zoom vHerf (Meeting # 2619860114 Password vHerf2020 )3 -
Umm, I came home to two packages and another coming tomorrow............but I can stop anytime:)Long days and pleasant nights,
Roland6 -
My wife put me on a 2 month ban from buying any more cigars after the last credit card statement and she found my stash. Now I give my cigar smoking buddy cash and he buys me cigars. Working a little more to make up the difference. Is this wrong? Start thinking out of the box. You'll be fine.8
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You guys have a problem and need to get a handle on it. My only problem is they are going to shut off the electric towards the end of the month so I will be smoking in the dark thanks to @Bigshizza having another saleA little dirt never hurt8
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enough apparentlyA little dirt never hurt2
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No, it's not wrong. It's "creative problem solving"!Albinfk said:My wife put me on a 2 month ban from buying any more cigars after the last credit card statement and she found my stash. Now I give my cigar smoking buddy cash and he buys me cigars. Working a little more to make up the difference. Is this wrong? Start thinking out of the box. You'll be fine.
“I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f@$# with me, I’ll kill you all.” -Gen. James Mattis, USMC4 -
I believe that the happy ending is, you've got a lot of great cigars.
I also wonder if this is what happened to @kswildcat ? Wife saw the CC statement?
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain6 -
I've said many times, cigars are not an addiction, they are a hobby, an addicting hobby!
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I have discovered a third way, and it works: Roll Your Own.peter4jc said:The only two ways out of CAS are 1) dying - not always fun, and 2) move into a Tiny House with no garage or outbuilding.
Works 3 ways:
1) LAS is way cheaper than CAS.
2) RYO generates cigars, which satisfies CAS.
3) RYP slays the devil's playmate
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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This thread makes me think that, for the younger guys, it may be time to review the two rules for a happy marriage:
1) The woman is always right.
2) Should you find yourself in the position that the woman can be irrevocably proven wrong, refer to rule number one, which supercedes all other rules.
As someone else said here recently; "you can be right, or you can be happy."
You don't get both.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain8 -
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So far the wife has been patient and said vary little other than I have bought more cigars this year, and smoke more in the past 2 months than I have in the past 3 years. LOL. I think it is like any other collector, or hobbyist, the fun is in the chase, except with cigars, the pay-off is also in the smoke!
I was born a fool, and just got bigger!0 -
Yakster said:I hear some folks stoop to buying coffee as a front to keep the cigars tricking in... and you know about addicts and coffee.
Gosh, how does one do that, if not a single malt scotch, coffee is my go to when having a cigar.Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-55 -
In truth, my wife is fine with it. My problems are actually more that I'm going to need a cooler very soon as my fridgador is just about packed! LOL. And whats scary is that it didn't take long at all!
Dave
Long days and pleasant nights,
Roland5 -
Rolanddeschain said:In truth, my wife is fine with it. My problems are actually more that I'm going to need a cooler very soon as my fridgador is just about packed! LOL. And whats scary is that it didn't take long at all!
Dave
I also had this problem, but a cooler won't solve it. After filling the wineador I started a coolidor. Now it's just about full as well.
My wife just smiles because she knows that the next time she wants a shiny bauble I can't say no. I guess it's fair...
“I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f@$# with me, I’ll kill you all.” -Gen. James Mattis, USMC5
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