Average water table in Dull-Aware is about two feet down. This state is essentially a sand bar. Many people do have basements, nevertheless, and spend a fortune on them. But I avoided that sump pump versus flood scenario by picking a home without a basement. Therefore, my humidors and coolidors live up in the home office at room temp. In Winter, when the furnace and hearth tend to dry out the house, I'll fire up a humidifier that lives right outside the office door. That helps. Other than that, I peek at half a dozen hygrometers about once a week and react accordingly. Cigars ready to smoke, I try to keep them between 60 and 65%. Cigars stashed to age, in the age coolidor, I try to keep them around 65%. I keep about two score of my faves in a small humidor which is a super stable box. Stays around 65% without much tending. I'm re-filling that stash these days. Matalotos. Love 'em. Then there's a dry box for fresh rolled of the damp kind... they rotate into the aging coolidor after a couple weeks, or when they feel about right. Then there's the coolidor of filler leaf ready to roll, which i keep between 65% and 70%. Then there the wrappers box, which I keep between 75% and 80%. Then there's the opened bags of leaf, which live in a coolidor with a tight lid, at don't open me. Then there's unopened bags, sealed at whatever they were when Don sent them, in a cardboard box in the closet.
Cripes, I think I need to buy some more!
Why do I always feel like I am running out?
So there's a whole lot of tending, time I go from one humidor to the next coolidor. On the other hand, all of my boxes of FX Smith's Sons just sit on the closet shelf inside big ziplocks... and they seem to endure just fine, with no attention at all! So it might just be it doesn't matter anywhere near so much as we think.
Then there's the deluxestogie approach ... roll it and smoke it, get it over with. Not much to worry about there. I've been trying that approach lately... rolling quickies and sparking them right off. It works OK, by golly. Maybe not your optimum aging experience; but certainly avoids a lot of maintenance and fiddling round. It's good. Maybe I get as much experience as deluxe, I'll go that direction. Occam is one of my heros, after all. Only thing you miss going that way is, you don't get to open up your box and admire your handiwork from time to time. Like old Scrooge McDuck in his counting room, I like to lift the lid every few days just to admire and get a snootfull. That's fun too.