Thread: Cigar Guys, Do I have this right?

OK, so I'm still a relative noob when it comes to cigars. For most of my life, I had a strict rule of 2 cigars per decade whether I needed them or not but that all changed recently. I'm still primarily a pipe smoker but I've found that I do enjoy about 1 cigar per weekday and a couple on Saturday and Sunday is not uncommon.

It didn't take long to figure out that 9 premium cigars per week just wasn't in my budget. So I've begun to play around with bundle cigars from Thompsons. Not premium cigars by a long shot but hey, they're handmade, Domincan, quite tasty and in many cases only about a buck and change a stick. I can afford to smoke a couple of these a day if I wanted to. While I sometimes get some uneven burns and the occassional wrapper issues, generally they seem to be pretty consistent good performers. When I'm smoking a cigar, 90-95% of the time, it will be one of these.

Then the concept of the Sunday Stogie came to me. Just like you can't eat Hamburger Helper 7 days a week, I thought it might be nice to burn a premium stick on Sunday. I can stop by several cigar shops and buy better cigars by the stick. Since the cost of these higher end cigars is somewhat prohibitive, I'll only burn one a week (on Sunday after dinner). This way, a five pack of assorted better cigars will last me about a month and the bulk smoke during the week is pipe tobacco or bundle cigars (both of which are quite affordable.) Today I geared up for Sunday Stogie with the following:

- La Aroma De Cuba, Mi Amor (This is just a delicious cigar. I'd like to smoke about a box of these a week)

- La Gloria Cubana, a nice dark Churchill

- La Flor de Oliva (one Torpedo in Connecticut wrapper, and a Churchill Maduro)

Is this the way most cigar guys do it (i.e. serviceable cheaper sticks for routine smoking and only occassional forrays into the premium stuff?)