# Securing cigars: hold the humidity without turning the cabinet into a mold box

> Secure cigars: humidor with controlled humidity, do not dry them in a steel safe, separate stock and rare boxes.
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A cigar wants humidity in a narrow band. A dry certified safe dries it out, a wet cellar molds it. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is the clearest case in which the wrong certified safe destroys the piece.

## What gets ruined without a thief

Too dry, too wet, temperature jumps, a humidor you do not check for months. You measure the humidity with a device you trust, and you replace the source before the box goes musty. Rare boxes stay closed when the price hangs on the seal.

## When someone comes

A humidor in the living room is a box with a handle. The everyday box may stand there. The boxes with a receipt and a price stand in the locked room, still in the right climate, not as a substitute in the document safe. In the radar the cigar does not appear.

## The folder

Brand, format, whether the box is sealed, receipt. A musty humidor is damage without a burglary, which you record in the list before you throw the contents away or make a claim.

## Häufige Fragen

### Cigars in the certified safe?

No, if it is dry. They belong in a humidor whose humidity you measure.

### Living-room humidor?

For everyday use, yes. For the rare sealed box, a locked place with the same climate.

### Mold in the box?

Then the contents are at risk. Do not move them into the steel cabinet and hope. Lower the humidity, separate the affected pieces.