Another three deal day at JR Cigar's DDA. Sheesh. Not that I'm looking to buy anything but still... always kinda looking to buy something.
What's the deal?
What's the deal with no deals? Who knows. Grapefruit Sculpin available for growler fills at Ballast Point, want to try that. I need to start leaving empty growlers in the car.
Lack of temptation is good for me right now. I've bought more cigars in 2014 than in the previous 48 years of my life combined.
Ah, who'm I kidding? Probably going to order more Cubans today. Didn't get to it yesterday.
What are you going to buy Bret ? .
Either the RyJ Short Churchills or the MC Petite #2s. I'm resisting the urge to load up on all the Partagas I can get - I like Partagas, but I tell myself I really should explore some others.
Both good choices...smoke any Bolivars or Ramon Allones?
I have - the petit corona size in both, and one of the Bolivar Bellicosos Finos. A box of ten of the Allones Superiores is tempting, but I'm suspicious that it won't be $2 per stick better than the Partagas.
This is all tortuous logic, because I haven't had the RyJ or MC Petite #2 either. What odd logic we use when spending money.
The Partagas Shorts are ALWAYS "in stock" at my house, love those.
Tortuous logic indeed, especially when we get hung up on "just" $2. Adds up quick when you're talking per stick, over a full box of cigars, but for any one cigar it's a trivial amount of money. Like when we say something is good at $3 but not $3.50. Really? That 50¢ makes that much of a difference?
Just buy 'em all and go on a hiatus until the next great deal surfaces.
Well, yeah, but we do have to draw lines somewhere. A $2 increment in a bid on the devil might equate to $0.08-$0.10 per cigar, but I won't increment the bid just because it's the principle of the thing. It's the same with other things. On Saturday I took $80 with me to buy a motorcycle jack from a guy who was asking $90. On the way I decided I was interested at $60 but no higher. No good reason why. It would have been a fair price at $80. I just decided I wanted it at $60. I got it at $60. It becomes a question of what's trivial. I used to measure it in packs of cigarettes - a pack of smokes was about $8 (when I quit). So it was worth it to me to get $8 off something because that was a pack of smokes. Now, $10 is a Tat Black CG and an EPC Short Run 2013. Is that trivial? Maybe, maybe not.
As for hiatuses, they're easier claimed than done.
