In the year that I've been smoking cigars I've spent ~$6300.00 on 50 boxes, which averages to $125.00/box. This is troubling. I smoke a value cigar and one to two premium cigars daily, and although I smoke Padron Anniversaries, I do so sporadically, which is to say that my average smoke costs $6-$8.00. Usually I spend ~$150.00 a box at two discount e-tailers; if they don't stock it I don't buy it.

Add in $700.00 on three humidors, beads, cutter and punch and I'm at $7000.00.

Don't misunderstand me, I really do love cigars, but that's a lot of money. As I have 50 pipes and about 20 lbs of pipe tobacco, I can have a bowl for about 75¢. I've financed cigars this past year by selling pipe tobacco; I had about 200 lbs.

I didn't pause to think about it until now; I've been too busy enjoying myself.

How have you coped with this expense?
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Being broke. :-)
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I cope by not keeping track of what I spend on cigars. :-):-):-)
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I agree. I don't even want to know what I have spent!!!
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Is this your first year really getting into cigars? Few years back I spent similar money. Midnight Madness on JR's or endless hours on Cbid. I was there late at night trying to get that special everyone is sleeping through. Then I would simply buy when everyone is up anyway so it made no difference. I wasn't bargain hunting. I was hunting to fill two 55 qt coolers and three desktops.

I was cutting 8-12 sticks a weekend. Especially in football season.

It'll wane. You won't be having three a day in a few months. Before you knwo it that investment will start to age which isn't a bad thing.

Now if you been smoking for a few years your in trouble. Cigars are an expensive hobby/habit to maintain. As you already know a pipe is much easier to afford.
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:-)
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Can't take it with you. :-)
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Amen
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I cope by knowing other's have a bigger problem than me...

I still have not started playing on the big slope (rare vintage cc)!!!:-)

BTW - Things may slow down for you now that you've got the storage equipment... maybe not!
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I strongly agree.
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Can't put a price on stress-busting relaxation. :-)
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I try not to think about it. I buy one box a month weather it is $100 or $300 it don't matter it usually averages out to about $2000 per year.
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I have no idea what I've spent on cigars this year and that is definitely a good thing. As long as the mortgage gets paid and I can still retire before I'm 80 I'd rather not know much I spend on cigars.
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6,300.00 in 12 months? Bro, a lot of us adults like to practice a little thing we like to call "Self Control"! :-)
Seriously, if ya have the disposable income to buy that many cigars, why worry about it. On the other hand, if you're over spending, stop it.
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:-) My budget doesn't allow me to buy a lot of cigars, so I don't. I save up when there's a box I want to buy, and I put away a few bucks a week when I can so I can buy a few singles at the B&M when I herf, or stop in to have a smoke in the A/C
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You only live life once, it might as well be doing things that you enjoy.
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Just be glad you don't collect expensive cars!!!:-)

You got off cheap!!!:-)
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I have just accepted that cigars are going to eat up most of my money. :-)
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200 pounds of pipe tobacco?

Sounds like you have had a problem LONG before cigars came into play.......

I never counted how much $$$ I spend on cigars or booze, I already know the amount....

Almost all of it :-)
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Cigars are a cheap hobby. One of these competition aerobatics models is equivalent in price to your entire collection, and you're only one mistake or broken part missed during a preflight check away from loosing the whole thing. Travel costs to district competitions are a large factor as well.

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