empty boxes for coolidor....which kind?

KingoftheCove

danielzreyes

I honestly think its what ever floats your boat. I'd go with the wider and flatter ones so you can stack more.

jlmarta

Yo, Horst. I've got a couple I'll send ya. Maybe 2 or 3....... Cedar, I believe.

KingoftheCove

docbp87

Wood is better, but honestly, it doesn't matter. In my experience, what the cigars are stored in is not as important (as long as it doesn't have a strong/funky odor to impart to the cigars) as the temperature and humidity.

jlmarta

The Sniper

y2pascoe

I was going to run to my B&M and ask if I could grab some old boxes, then I found a box of unused cedar shingles in my basement. Got some lining the bottom of my coolidor now. The old boxes I do have I'll save for interior organization.

bigharpoon

y2pascoe:

I was going to run to my B&M and ask if I could grab some old boxes, then I found a box of unused cedar shingles in my basement. Got some lining the bottom of my coolidor now. The old boxes I do have I'll save for interior organization.

Not the same cedar, bro. You don't want those shingles in your cooler, even though they are white they are too aromatic.

jlmarta

Chances are those shingles are a different kind of cedar - not Spanish Cedar. Jus' sayin......

y2pascoe

jlmarta:

Chances are those shingles are a different kind of cedar - not Spanish Cedar. Jus' sayin......

I know they're not Spanish. They're actually giving off very little odor.

kuzi16

Spanish cedar is not cedar. it is part of the mahogany family. it shouldnt have an odor other than the smell of a humidor. as long as they are wood boxes that cigars were sold in, you will be good.

y2pascoe

File one in the "shows what I know" file. Thanks to a few of my construction worker friends tonight, I learned that cedar shingles carry a natural toxicity in them. Apparently that's what keeps the bugs away from them. Needless to say I just took them out of my cooler and wiped the inside down again. So...yeah. That's what I learned tonight.

bigharpoon

Yip, they don't resist rot for no reason.