yup, 'nother new guy with some questions and greetings from the uk!

[Smoky Contemplation]

Welcome from California.

[logan37]

welcome from NY.

a tip that was passed on to me here was if you're going to buy a humidor pick the size you want, then get one twice as big. the tend to fill up fast. with that said, i bought a 100 count humi and its pretty much full already(only been smoking since the beginning of july). i'm expecting my newbie sampler soon so i'm going to set up a tupperdor this weekend.

i probably should've done that in the first place, but i got really excited with all the research i did and from reading the threads here that i went a little crazy and bought a nice humi about 50 various sticks right away.

as far as distilled water goes, i just boiled some filtered tap water and that seems to work fine. but i'm very new here and don't know if thats best.

[Soli]

thats some pretty impressive going there logan!

just ordered some beads and a cheap hygrometer- so hopefully have a homemade set up sorted pretty soon

still probably going to go for a small humidor as well though, later on- which will hopefully limit my spending somewhat as i head off to uni/college!

probably going to buy off cgarsltd.co.uk (cheers for the link SJR- im in high wycombe atm, but soon to be colchester for uni, how bout you?)
and get a sampler with the humidor.

any thoughts on these three? am probably going to go for the cherrywood one, just on price, and that it will prob be better than the jar.

http://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/bargain-ch...ty-p-5501.html

and, slightly more money, is it worth it?
http://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/canterbury...ty-p-5471.html

and the cheapest- would keep on its side as mrtr33 suggests vertical is not the best for sticks
http://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/cgars-empt...st-p-2661.html

sorry for yet more Qs folks!

[basil]

IMO - not the jar, unless it's just something to have around besides your real humidor. On the other two - I think they are over-priced. You might look here, or here.

[logan37]

yeah, they do seem overpriced, shop around more. the 2 links from basil are good online stores. I bought mine from cheaphumidors.com which is basil's 2nd link. it was about half of the price of the ones you're looking at. not sure what the shipping rates are to uk. i paid 10 bucks for shipping.

[Soli]

sometimes it dont half do me nut in to be living in the uk

[logan37]

what?

[here'sjohnny]

sometimes it dont half do me nut in to be living in the uk

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Don't buy the jar no matter how tempting the price. I bought a nice one with a cedar lid and bottom, and it was never at a stable humidity no matter what i did. they are absolutely worthless based on my experience.