Cigar beetles and humidity

[Mister Moo]

...I have the cigars in the coldest spot in the house and have no way to reduce the temperature any more. No wineadors, coolers or anything. And I can't purchase any.

Such was my 1st year of cigar keeping in eastern NC several years ago; summer came, the house got too warm and I found some very nice cigars being eaten alive. The costly cure was keeping the A/C around 67* all day in a house that was vacant during the working day except for my cigars . Soon thereafter I got lucky and stumbled on to a mega-bargain close-out winecooler - worked great - house at 80* all day and cigars hanging at 65* for less tha a song. Funny enough, about a year later we moved to a house with a large (one window) basement that stays pretty much 66/66 all year with the ducts closed. Winecooler got unplugged about seven years ago and I spray in a little water once or twice each winter.

Seems like your best deal short of cooling a home in a hot climate would be storing offsite; or finding a place with a dark basement; or buying a couple of cigars at a time when you want to smoke them; or take the ultimate escape and start smoking a pipe.