The bane of every gift-giver's holiday experience is where to store everything prior to the gift exchange, particularly if you live in a small place, or (like me) have children with an ever-growing collection of "stuff" that expands in direct proportion to the amount of extra space available.
Cigars add a complicating factor because it takes a bit of effort yo keep them fresh. You can't just stick them in a spare closet for six weeks and break them out on Christmas Eve, like you can with a sweater or video game. There's a reason that cigar humidors exist: Quality cigars have to be cared for properly, or you might as well just grab whatever the gas station has at the last minute instead. So before you buy cigars as gifts, make sure you know where they're going to be stored.
It makes things especially easy if your gift is a cigar and humidor combo -- just put the smokes in the humidor and you're golden. You can also store the cigars in your own humidor in the days and weeks between purchase and presentation -- one of the reasons I like giving cigar samplers as gifts is that I have the humidor space for a few cigars, but not enough to store bigger quantities.
If you want to give someone a box or bundle of cigars and don't have the humidor space, consider shipping it directly to them. We do that with a lot of presents for our nieces and nephews (see: aforementioned small children whose toys and gear take up too much space for us to also keep all of the family's holiday gifts in stock), and it could not be easier. That also guarantees that a gift won't be left at home by accident, leaving a blank spot under the tree and a cigar sampler cheerfully wrapped and sitting on the steps back at the house. Not that this happened to me or anything.
Cigars add a complicating factor because it takes a bit of effort yo keep them fresh. You can't just stick them in a spare closet for six weeks and break them out on Christmas Eve, like you can with a sweater or video game. There's a reason that cigar humidors exist: Quality cigars have to be cared for properly, or you might as well just grab whatever the gas station has at the last minute instead. So before you buy cigars as gifts, make sure you know where they're going to be stored.
It makes things especially easy if your gift is a cigar and humidor combo -- just put the smokes in the humidor and you're golden. You can also store the cigars in your own humidor in the days and weeks between purchase and presentation -- one of the reasons I like giving cigar samplers as gifts is that I have the humidor space for a few cigars, but not enough to store bigger quantities.
If you want to give someone a box or bundle of cigars and don't have the humidor space, consider shipping it directly to them. We do that with a lot of presents for our nieces and nephews (see: aforementioned small children whose toys and gear take up too much space for us to also keep all of the family's holiday gifts in stock), and it could not be easier. That also guarantees that a gift won't be left at home by accident, leaving a blank spot under the tree and a cigar sampler cheerfully wrapped and sitting on the steps back at the house. Not that this happened to me or anything.
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