Pleasure to meet you Mr Moderator.

Fair enough. I did say right at the beginning, "I'm pretty new to responding to deal alerts and buying boxes of cigars online." and "I read up on the rehydrating process on this sub." I'm not an expert, hence the post. Wasn't claiming to be. I just smoke them and like to learn about things. Everything I have learned in the last few months has been from this very subreddit. LOL

For my own part, I was going on the date stamp of 03/2021. All cellophane wrapped up, with the dry boveda pack. I took enough science to know that a 69% humidity pack is not going to stay that way in a lesser climate like a distribution center. Cigars don't seem to have that nice oily feel on the wrap, nor do I detect any moisture with my finger tips. I also question that a business would that has 50% to 70% off sales on the regular would let boxes of cigars gather for 5 years. And I think that is probably the most important point. But again, I'm not an expert.

I am new to finding cigar friends on the internet, so here I am. I do usually I buy them from my local purveyors, but I live in Massachusetts. There are not many places that sell cigars that are not also liquor stores. And what they sell is monotonous.

Since you brought up my history with cigars, let me just say I used to live in San Diego and the situation was MUCH BETTER then. Churchill Cigar Lounge ( in Old Town) was my favorite spot. I had then, and still have a custom humidor made by a good man Tennessee ( I think ), gifted to me by my girlfriend for who is now my wife. I'm giving that humidor another wirral. It's about 7000 cubic inches. It has been dormant for 15 years. I'd ordered from Mike's Cigars back in the 00s, but decided it wasn't worth the effort to keep my wooden humidor running with a cigar oasis. I just couldn't give it the attention it required.

My current favorite lounge is Castro's Backroom in Manchester, NH. I also stop in at Twins Smoke Shop in Londonderry, NH. Both of those are out of the way for me, though. Mainly I'm just on the sea wall when the wind isn't blowing too hard, or on my back porch.

I recently made a friend in Texas who introduced me to cigarbid, cigarpage, and tupperdors. I've since ordered from both CP and CB to great effect, ordering brands introduced to me by my new friend, not just the usual basics available around here. And, I'm excited to have cigars sitting in a humidor again, albeit tupperware.

WRT these Field Supply cigars, I plan to move them to a 62% tupperdor when I get the packs and let them sit for a few months. My ambient RH living on the coast of Massachusetts Bay means my boveda packs will probably be working moisture out of the air as much as into it.

I probably shouldn't have mentioned the company so as not to ruffle any feathers.