Recently had a friend who is not a BOTL score me some boxes of sticks in another city that he's bringing to me next week Tuesday. Jake knows what these are :-).

When my buddy asked me how to store them I realized it will be four days so I don't think I want to just let them sit in his kitchen so I suggested an empty cooler with a shot glass full of water in it.

The boxes are shrink wrapped and the sticks are tubos so I am thinking they will be safe. What do you guys do when you have to ghetto up a storage solution for boxes? Tupperware in a dark location would be fine for singles I imagine.

cheers!
jp
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The cooler idea sounds good. If the are In a sealed container you may not need a shot glass of water because the cigars themselves are probably at a higher RH from the b&m
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If the boxes are shrinkwrapped they will be OK for several days or even a week without any special storage. If you are worried you can put them in a container (e.g., cooler or tupperware) but you don't need to add any extra humidification (water) at this point. Since the boxes are shrinkwrapped it will take longer than a week for the water to be absorbed and worst case is that you might over hydrate the sticks.

Just put them in a bag or a box and you will be OK.
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There can only be one Jake:-)
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Is there a reason you have chosen to pollute this thread with drivel? :-)

No need to worry if its only for a week or so. If it is very dry you can just use gallon zip lock bags for up to a month with no extra humidification. :-)
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A closed box with even a crappy shrink wrap job can last a week out in the open indoors in my experience. After a week things start to get kind of dry and delicate.

If you worried, a couple 2 gallon Zip-Loc bags (or your local equivalent) will absolutely ensure they'll last for at least two weeks indoors. And even then you can take a folded up paper towel and put a few drops of water on it and stick that in the bag with the box.
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I would say just a ziplock bag. I have one of my boxes in a ziplock bag right now with a hygrometer and it's holding at 67 for a week now with no drop in RH, I've even opened it a couple times for a sticks and it still settles at 67. I think you'll be fine with just a bag, no shot glass needed.
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Thanks brothers for all the great advice!

jp
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