Show your Stash – Jeremy
Posted by Toasted on Mar 10, 2011 in Show Your Stash | 7 comments
Today’s Reader’s Stash is from Jeremy – you can follow him on Twitter here. Take it away!
(To learn more about this new series, and how to submit pictures of your stash, click here.)
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When my ”traditional” humidor became overfilled I began to ponder weather or not to throw down another couple hundred bucks on a new humidor. Knowing that the second humidor would probably be relegated to the closet (It took me a while to convince my wife that the first humidor was a work of art and needed to be displayed) I hit the net in search of some alternatives.
After doing a little research on alternative storage devices I created what has become the most reliable humidor I’ve ever used. Using only a plastic storage container ($6), some weather stripping bought at Wal-Mart ($6), some Boveda humidity packs ($4), and some cedar strips from cigar boxes for lining I created this masterpiece. I also included the pics from the “traditional” humi.
Enjoy!
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Jeremy – looks like we have similar tastes in cigars from the looks of whats in your plastic home-made humidor. Questions:
1) I’d like to know specifically what you did to “lock in freshness” with the weather stripping – did you attach it to the lid or to the box?
2) did you do anything to eliminate the “plastic” odor that many people find when they create coolidors? Or didn’t you experience this at all?
3) In your regular humidor (4th pic). what are your obvious go-to sticks?
Thanks!
Nice work! I would have prefered you have a contest & give some away.
Wow. Nice tupperdor. I started with one of those… (Actually my sones crayon box) until I got hooked up here by TOASTEDFOOT and HumidorVault in a contest. Will need to post my pics and sen them in/. My stas is pretty weak right now (as usual)….
Wow. Nice tupperdor. I started with one of those… (Actually my sones crayon box) until I got hooked up here by TOASTEDFOOT and HumidorVault in a contest. Will need to post my pics and sen them in/. My stas is pretty weak right now (as usual)….
TriMarkC,
I attached the weather stripping to the lid of the container. To eliminate the plastic odor I simply lightly wipped out the continer with distilled water and left it open to dry for a couple of days, and the cedar strips from the old cigar boxes aid not only in the regulation of humidity but also in the aroma. I have not experienced any off odors of taste in the box. AS far as my go to cigars, in my current rotation I smoke a lot of Oliva and Padron and also love those Partagas Shorts.
Thanks for the tip, Jeremy!
I was shopping for a good Tupperdor at Target when I stumbled into the camping section. (I get lost there a lot and usually end up browsing Electronics or Automotive.) I found an “Igloo IceCube 14″ which is a compact cubic cooler with a separate pocket atop the lid for… I don’t know what, since it never saw service as a cooler.
It seals nicely and I found that disassembled “free” humidors from CI and Cigars.com fit perfectly inside with room around them for air to circulate. I inverted the cheap humidor lids and stacked them crosswise with the bases to act as trays and slid a pair of Boveda packets in. I get perfectly maintained humidity and a reasonable resistance to temperature changes, and the lid compartment holds my lighters and cutters. It holds fifty sticks without crowding.