Moving soon, any precautions I should take?

[Yarddog]

My suggestion...do not trip while moving the humidor.

That is all.

[CamoSutra]

[CamoSutra]

The bad desktop humidor is emptied out and its contents (along with additional cigars) are now in tupperdors and traveldors. Still can't quite bring myself to just get rid of it, so I've decided it will become a resting place for anything cigar-related that I don't need for awhile. At the moment it's holding the HF beads that were in it when it was still a humidor), in capped jars. I'll add any spare hygrometers and batteries, cutters, etc. I find as I pack up -- hope there's room for everything.

Waste not, want not -- except cigars, 'cause I always want more of those.

[Herf N Turf]

I would not use newspaper. Newspaper has a nasty odor to it and the ink will rub off on the inside of the cooler and anything else it touches. I think your t-shirts and blanket idea's the way to go.

Inside the humidors, if you don't have enough bubbly wrap, you can use inflated zipper bags. Just make sure it's tight enough so to prevent movement. If the humidors lock, lock them. If not, pack them tightly enough to where the lid won't be pushed open by the zippy bags.

The cooler idea for the dry house is a good one. It's virtually impossible to keep a wooden humidor from losing moisture in extremely dry climates. Of course, you can always increase the amount of media and service it more often, which is what I did. Eventually you'll probably end up in a wineador, which is what I did.

[CamoSutra]

I would not use newspaper. Newspaper has a nasty odor to it and the ink will rub off on the inside of the cooler and anything else it touches. I think your t-shirts and blanket idea's the way to go.

Good point! And you just saved me the trouble of buying newspapers, since I'm not a subscriber to our daily fishwrap.

The cooler idea for the dry house is a good one. It's virtually impossible to keep a wooden humidor from losing moisture in extremely dry climates.

The climate should be much more favorable when spring eventually comes; right now I'm showing 58% outside, but only 32% indoors. Since I have to move both desktop humidors and the cooler anyway, I'd might as well load the desktops into the cooler for the trip, and see what I need to do after they've had a day or two in the new place.

You're right, a wineador may be in my future; I like the idea of being able to store, age and display entire boxes. Plus possibly an un-converted wine cooler for -- you know -- wine! But I'm sure I'll go the coolerdor route first, since they're easy and inexpensive.

My biggest concern at the moment is getting a CBid/UPS shipment that was originally scheduled for delivery Tuesday. First, weather delayed it getting into town. UPS rescheduled delivery for Wednesday and I had to be out when they showed up, so they rescheduled for Thursday. But Wednesday evening/Thursday morning we got ice and snow, and delivery slipped to today, and now to either tomorrow or Monday. (Don't know which day, yet. UPS doesn't normally deliver to residences on Saturday, but this week has been far from normal. E-mail I got was noncommittal, so is status on their website.) I'm not too concerned about the cigars suffering, since the Devil Site usually packs them well -- and either the warehouse is heated, or they'll get an extra beetle-killing freeze -- but I'm getting tired of rescheduling my days around a no-show Brown Truck, and I want to tuck the cigars into bed for a few days before they begin their trip to the new place.

[CamoSutra]

Time has come to start packing the cigars for my move next week. Including the latest two shipments, I now have a 100-count desktop, a 50-count desktop, two 15-count traveldors, seven shallow "temporary tupperdors" and a box of Olivas still in the box with the box in a ziplock; all full or nearly so. Bovedas in everything, HF beads in the two desktops. Empty space under the lids of the desktops will be filled with air-bags or bubblewrap so the cigars don't bounce around. I plan on smoking out of the traveldors until everything is in the new place and unpacked; everything else except the 100-count will fit into my 36-quart Coleman cooler, I think; if not, I'll put the overflow into a cardboard box. I'll just lock the 100-count, box it for transport, and hope for the best.

How many sticks total? Dunno, I didn't count, but I'd estimate around 225-250. (I've been gifting some of my local friends, probably given away 75 so far.) The collection I'm transporting runs the gamut from cheap Casa de Garcias to Avos, Fuentes and Padrons; right now I'm heavy on Rocky Patel, Oliva and Romeo y Julieta, light on several other favorites.

My leaky old 50-stick humidor is now an official cigarstuph box, someplace to keep supplies and accessories. Except it's 'way too small to hold everything, and I keep finding more that needs to be kept with the cigars, so I've filled a couple of cigar boxes and I'm working on a third one. All of these will end up boxed together for the movers to transport.

The way it looks now, I may end up filling the Accord's back seat and floorboard with just cigars and cigarstuph. That means the acoustic guitar will probably go into the trunk, and the rest of the musicstuph will either go on the moving truck or wait until I make a second trip in the car -- which I have to do anyway, since I won't trust movers with most of the computer gear. (I now know the exact location of every bump and pothole between here and there -- lots of them.)

I'll have more space in the new apartment, and I need it; I have too much stuph! The second bedroom will become a combination home office/cigar lounge/library/music room, leaving more usable space in the living room and master bedroom. There's also a patio, larger than the one here, where I can enjoy cigars and beverages when the weather's nice. The apartment community even has a picnic area with both gas and charcoal grills permanently installed, something I didn't have here. Now, if I can just get the manager to swap the small fridge in the kitchen for one of the larger ones they have ....

[CamoSutra]

Whoops! What I thought was a 36-quart cooler is only 28 quarts -- the "36" on the big label pasted to it refers to the number of 12-ounce cans it's designed to hold. When I started loading it up, three tupperdors and a 15-stick traveldor wouldn't fit -- also the 100-stick desktop, but I already knew it wouldn't.

Oh, well. I will pack the overflow into a moving box along with my ashtrays (which I forgot to consider when I started packing "cigarstuph" -- oops!), keep the little cooler for picnics, and buy a larger cooler for cigars after I'm settled at the new place.

Speaking of which: I get the keys Wednesday, movers will be here Friday, I hope to be completely moved by this time next week. Still too many boxes to finish filling, and just making my way through the apartment is getting hard to do. On the positive side, the weather today is nice (finally!) and I need a break from packing; I'm thinking about taking a drive in the country, with a couple of leafy friends to keep me company.

[CamoSutra]

Moving is mostly finished, just a few things left at the old apartment. The cigars made the move safely, which is the important thing. Enjoying an H. Uppmann Toro right now, watching Arrow courtesy of Xfinity on-demand, waiting for morning so I can get Internet turned on. (Using smartphone to send this.) About 25 miles from the nearest Tinder Box, a few miles more to the wonderful Tobacco Corner Ltd. Life is good.

[HabanoMan]

Congrats on the move!