01-21-2010, 02:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-21-2010, 02:09 PM by Skipper the cigar aFISHinodo.)
Steve, I "met you" on the Nub site around a year and a half ago. Then in person around a year ago. So I know you and because of our friendship I thought I'd give you a little heads-up.
First, get yourself a good lawyer. Not just any old lawyer, but a divorce lawyer. You are getting divorced.
Second take out that second mortgage on the house (heck, you're going to lose it anyway in the divorce) and stash the $ in a safety deposit box. Third, get rid of those toy humidors you are using and get yourself something oh, lets say the size of a mid-size car.
You joined Stogiechat. You are posting like a post ho. Let me lay this all out for you.
You will buy some cigars to "bomb" with. At first mediocre cigars then you realize if you cant hit them with volume, use quality. Then you will get turned onto the dark side. And somewhere in between you'll want to try every cigar anyone here raves about, which is every cigar. Where before your 100 count humidor was plenty big, you'll soon be using 200 quart coolers, converted wine coolers, custom humidors and the glove box of the family car. You will then start contemplating converting a room in the house into a smoking room. Yeah, if you aint smoking in it, then you aint living in it. So the living room seems perfect!
OK, so now you are buying cigars at a furious pace, buying humidors just as fast spending weekends packaging and mailing cigars like CI and all is good. Right? Wrong. Remember the wife? At first a simple brush off and comment like: "gee honey, they are just good people, that's why they all send me cigars". Then the 4 habanos boxes that came in... "Honey, this came form this guy in Scotland as a gift!" Finally "Sweetie, they were on sale, and do you know how hard these are to get?". But the house of cards comes tumbling down when you ask her not to buy those new $40 shoes as you open up your latest purchase of a full box of PAM64's costing 4 times that price. The only good side is that after all the sneaking and arguing and lying, the divorce doesn't seem so bad.
How do I know this?
well, I've sold 5 of my larger humidors. That leaves me with 2 semi-custom units that hold around 3,000 cigars (& they are jammed full). 2 90 quart coolers and 3 "desk-tops" each around a 300 count and are fully full. I also have 8 or 9 humidors retired and a locker at my cigar club that doesn't have room in it for a match. Yup, I am divorced.
Good luck Steve & welcome to Stogiechat.
First, get yourself a good lawyer. Not just any old lawyer, but a divorce lawyer. You are getting divorced.
Second take out that second mortgage on the house (heck, you're going to lose it anyway in the divorce) and stash the $ in a safety deposit box. Third, get rid of those toy humidors you are using and get yourself something oh, lets say the size of a mid-size car.
You joined Stogiechat. You are posting like a post ho. Let me lay this all out for you.
You will buy some cigars to "bomb" with. At first mediocre cigars then you realize if you cant hit them with volume, use quality. Then you will get turned onto the dark side. And somewhere in between you'll want to try every cigar anyone here raves about, which is every cigar. Where before your 100 count humidor was plenty big, you'll soon be using 200 quart coolers, converted wine coolers, custom humidors and the glove box of the family car. You will then start contemplating converting a room in the house into a smoking room. Yeah, if you aint smoking in it, then you aint living in it. So the living room seems perfect!
OK, so now you are buying cigars at a furious pace, buying humidors just as fast spending weekends packaging and mailing cigars like CI and all is good. Right? Wrong. Remember the wife? At first a simple brush off and comment like: "gee honey, they are just good people, that's why they all send me cigars". Then the 4 habanos boxes that came in... "Honey, this came form this guy in Scotland as a gift!" Finally "Sweetie, they were on sale, and do you know how hard these are to get?". But the house of cards comes tumbling down when you ask her not to buy those new $40 shoes as you open up your latest purchase of a full box of PAM64's costing 4 times that price. The only good side is that after all the sneaking and arguing and lying, the divorce doesn't seem so bad.
How do I know this?
well, I've sold 5 of my larger humidors. That leaves me with 2 semi-custom units that hold around 3,000 cigars (& they are jammed full). 2 90 quart coolers and 3 "desk-tops" each around a 300 count and are fully full. I also have 8 or 9 humidors retired and a locker at my cigar club that doesn't have room in it for a match. Yup, I am divorced.
Good luck Steve & welcome to Stogiechat.
Thanks Skipper for the advice! I think you might be onto something there!
