A lot of people have a room or an area of their house that they use to store unused or unwanted things in. Mine happens to be a bedroom in my house that I don't use, which I call my junk room. There's all sorts of crap in there from an old computer to crap I've ordered off of late-night tv and never used.
I don't store my hookah in there because I don't use it, but often times I'll pack it up in its case and leave it just inside the door until I bring it out again. Last summer I remember ordering quite a few containers of different shisha. I had stacked them in that room and smoked through all of them over time. Or so I had thought. Today I had a dumpster delivered and was cleaning out the room when I came upon an unopened box of Romman Double Apple. Since it was at least a year old I was skeptical as to how it would taste and perform. I was going to ask about its possibilites on the forum here, before trying it, but just figured what the hell and went ahead and loaded up the hookah.
Surprisingly, it was excellent. As soon as I cut open the rough plastic bag that it came in, I could instantly smell the apple aroma very intensely. Still, I was unsure how it would smoke but it was smooth as silk and produced nice white clouds. Color me happy (and smoky).
Marcus