If you know a cigar smoker or two see if you can ask them to save you some. My last ones hit the garbage can about four months ago. Since the ban of smoking in restaurants, I stopped buying boxes.

If you yourself can enjoy a cigar from time to time, then befriend a good tobbaconist. If not, you might try to ask one anyway. My favorite tobbaconist is in downtown Manhattan, on Warren St. just west of City Hall, Richard of the Wall St. Humidor. Some places that do a good volume and might be willing to give you some, these include Nat Sherman's and JR Cigars.

I have a couple bigger tin cases, like altoids ones but bigger, and those are nice, but there are old, and I think Mom bought them years ago at a novelty place.