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.