Uses for ash trays?

[Roger_Lafayette]

There's a big stack of clean ash trays on our dining room table.

Since they're all made of glass, I guess they could be recyled. But many are rather nice ... seems like a waste to just toss them.

In the meantime, some of them are now acquiring safety pins from dry cleaning, or gathering different denominations of coins.

Still others end up being filled with odds and ends such as nail clippers, throat lozenges, memory sticks, vitamin pills and chap stick dispensers,

What do you do with yours?

 

[Talyon]

Yeah they do look better with no butts, and cleaned.

At moment mine collect dust.

 

[_Lee]

I gave the nice ones to friends and threw the rest out.

 

[Rickajho]

Ditto on the dust collectors. I'm trying to train them to spread out and collect dust from other places in the house. But so far that ain't going so well.

Just never got around to throwing them out.

 

[Mark Anthony]

You could use them to soak your coils in after dry burning them.......

 

[ut1205]

I use one to hold my Evod recoils/rewicks.

 

[WattWick]

Can't decide if my vote goes to cashew nuts or guacamole.

 

[K_Tech]

I only had two ashtrays in the house. One is scrubbed clean and sitting on top of the china hutch in the dining room

The other one still has the last two cigarettes I smoked before I quit. I kinda need to clean it out, but I like looking at it and smiling at what I left behind.

 

[Vermonster13]

Skeets. Take out the pent up smoker's angst on them.

 

[Virtual Life]

Many years ago I asked for a homemade one I saw. Two piece ceramic with slots to insert and extinguish, take top off and dump. Nice one and I am loathe to throw it out. Maybe a weird pen/pencil holder?

 

[Ken_A]

I only had two ashtrays in the house. One is scrubbed clean and sitting on top of the china hutch in the dining room

The other one still has the last two cigarettes I smoked before I quit. I kinda need to clean it out, but I like looking at it and smiling at what I left behind.

fill it with epoxy, then take it to an engraver to put words on it like "The last two Cigarettes I ever smoked!!
Would make a good trophy.

 

[jrs99]

I only had one and now it just holds little items that don't really have a place to go.
...and on the subject of ashtrays...
I was sitting here the other day admiring the picture frame my daughter made for me in welding class at school and thinking about the old days. Remember when we would make clay or metal ashtrays in school as gifts for our parents? I kinda laughed thinking just how completely inappropriate that would be in this overly politically correct society we live in now.
I know I had made a really nice hammered copper one for my parents.

 

[CrackerTeg]

This:

 

[mare ze dotes]

I have one nicer large flat one that is now a saucer for the pot of kitty pet grass. That does not sound so good. I mean that I grow oat grass for the cat and I use it to catch the drainage when watering the plant.

 

[ILikeBigPuffs]

On my 1 month anniversary, I took them out in the dessert and shot the heck out of them! It was extremely gratifying!

 

[K_Tech]

fill it with epoxy, then take it to an engraver to put words on it like "The last two Cigarettes I ever smoked!!
Would make a good trophy.

That's a pretty darn good idea - I have some clear two-part around here somewhere...

 

[Izan]

Coins
O-rings, drip tips
ABV

And a few for guests that still smoke.

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[mare ze dotes]

For any one who shoot skeet.....That would be fun. ( those who do know what I mean)

 

[TaylorPlayer]

I have a couple of really cool ones from the 50's that I have kept. I keep them in my music/guitar room to hold guitar picks and guitar accessories in them.

 

[freeatlast!]

I only had one and now it just holds little items that don't really have a place to go.
...and on the subject of ashtrays...
I was sitting here the other day admiring the picture frame my daughter made for me in welding class at school and thinking about the old days. Remember when we would make clay or metal ashtrays in school as gifts for our parents? I kinda laughed thinking just how completely inappropriate that would be in this overly politically correct society we live in now.
I know I had made a really nice hammered copper one for my parents.

My dad was one of those "hard to buy for" types, so sometimes as a child (with Mom's help), I'd give him a carton of cigarettes for Christmas - Camels, if I remember correctly!