Cigar Budgets As Seen By Non-Smoking Spouses

[mike32312]

Hey what she doesn't know won't kill me. Let me put it this way. I smoke about 5-7 a day. cuban and NC.You do the math.

[Corona Gigante]

I don't see the need to be dishonest about my cigar purchases. Any decent relationship is based on mutual trust, honesty, and respect.

On the other hand, I don't see any need to be gratuitously honest, either.

[bpegler]

Originally Posted by mike32312

Hey what she doesn't know won't kill me. Let me put it this way. I smoke about 5-7 a day. cuban and NC.You do the math.

I wish our wives could get together, so mine could put my 1-2 per day habit in better perspective.
Of course I'm on a prety steady cuban diet myself, so it's still not exactly cheap...

[UP IN SMOKE]

My wife looks in my Humi and says, "Hey you are running low are you going to order some more." She is a keeper. I usually order $30.00 at a time so maybe 60.00 a month at the most. I do a lot of box splits with the guys at work so I usually get good deals.

[stormin]

If you ever really had your way with the cigar budget it would probably lead to this...http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthread.php?t=25343

[(909)]

I'm a wuss!!!

I have a large humidor hidden in a cabinet behind some catalogs is my home office that holds about 300 cigars and is stuffed to the gills. Then I have a small 50 count on top of my desk. As I smoke the ones in the small humi, I add back from the big humi, when I get a little room, I buy another box.

Talk about cigar budgets, lets talk about shoe budgets!!!

My wife has 48 pairs of shoes, how many boxes of COROs could I buy with that money??

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by mike32312

Hey what she doesn't know won't kill me. Let me put it this way. I smoke about 5-7 a day. cuban and NC.You do the math.

What do you do for a living?!?!?

Assuming the average cost between a $12 Cuban and a $6 NC as $9, 5 smokes a day is $45/day. Times 365, minus 10 sick days when smokes don't taste too good, a day a week "off" to rest the taste buds, and another 5 random days is 300. 300x$45=$13,500/yr.

I won't tell Al Gore that you're personally responsible for the greenhouse effect if you can clue me in on what to do to have that much discretionary income.

[PuffDaddy]

Don't ask, don't tell has worked so far. She was OK with my purchase of an Aristocrat humidor since it was attractive furniture. I TRY to get her to buy things for herself (so I feel less guilty), but she doesn't have anything that she wants to buy. Thank the Lord she is a saver, since I'm a spender, or we would be in debt up to our eyes!

[PadronMe]

Originally Posted by Corona Gigante

I don't see the need to be dishonest about my cigar purchases. Any decent relationship is based on mutual trust, honesty, and respect.

On the other hand, I don't see any need to be gratuitously honest, either.

Honesty is the best policy. She WILL find out. It's only a matter of time.

[oddball]

Originally Posted by PadronMe

Honesty is the best policy. She WILL find out. It's only a matter of time.

Good advice guys; they always find out.
My wife is cool with the cigar thing. She occasionally smokes 'em too. That helps a lot...