What to do with lighter colection?

[jffvera]

Tonight I realized I have about $1000 worth of lighters. I plan on never smoking again, thanks to my trusty mods and rbas, so I have no intention of every using them again, and thus have no need for them.

I am guessing I am not the only person on this forum who has S.T. Dupont, Cartier and Dunhill lighters they don't need any more. My question is where's the best place to unload these? I would prefer not to go the ebay route, so I am hoping there's another option I am not aware of.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Wakefulpanda]

Put an ad on craigslist and list all the lighters. I'm sure someone would take the bulk off your hands.

 

[somdfisher]

Hold on to them for the 4th of July. They also work in a pinch when you need to heat up Kanthal wire for a coil.

 

[Criticalmass]

Tonight I realized I have about $1000 worth of lighters. I plan on never smoking again, thanks to my trusty mods and rbas, so I have no intention of every using them again, and thus have no need for them.

I am guessing I am not the only person on this forum who has S.T. Dupont, Cartier and Dunhill lighters they don't need any more. My question is where's the best place to unload these? I would prefer not to go the ebay route, so I am hoping there's another option I am not aware of.

Thanks for the help.

Make sure you keep a couple. Never know when a good lighter might come in handy. I always carry one along with my swiss army knife and a few other items.

sent from my Limited Edition Monkey Island™ Talking Voodoo Doll Head named Murray®

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

Heh - I have a dunhill lighter and I've put it and a pack of smokes on a small wooden platform on my mantle as a demonstration of my commitment to vaping. There they sit, in plain sight, at the ready, and yet here I sit pulling on some fine, fine tangerine lemonade, knowing they have no power over me.

It's kind of like Vlad the Impaler (commonly known as Dracula) putting the bodies of his enemies on pike poles around his castle.

Now, I have just the one subject. You, however, could make an entire installation art piece - the "Vanquished Foes".

Either that or you could go the craig's list route that that other person suggested.

 

[g0nadz]

do a google search, I bet there is a dedicated lighter collector forum out there with buy/sell threads.

 

[six]

Don't need any more? - Well, I do have some nice lighters, and a few were almost stupidly expensive. And - not one of them has been used to set fire to tobacco in almost four years (for my own use anyway - I have occasionally been asked for a light by friends who still smoke). I never leave the house without at least one method of creating fire. I do mean never. There has been not even one time in the last ~4 decades I have been without means to create fire.

The concept of EDC has come up a lot on ECF the last few months or so. For me, not smoking does not equal not carrying a lighter, does not mean not keeping lighters in my vehicles, and does not mean I can't continue to appreciate a few of the finer devices I have. Fire is important.

 

[Myrany]

I have my zippo and a giant ziplock of disposables (cig shop gave you a cheapo disposable with every carton purchased). Zippo is in my rebuilding kit for annealing wire. Disposables are in the hurricane prep tub.

SOmeplace I saw a torch that uses the disposables to fuel it. SO tempted to grab one of those.

 

[HawaiiVPR]

I have my zippo and a giant ziplock of disposables (cig shop gave you a cheapo disposable with every carton purchased). Zippo is in my rebuilding kit for annealing wire. Disposables are in the hurricane prep tub.

SOmeplace I saw a torch that uses the disposables to fuel it. SO tempted to grab one of those.

LOL, same here, I have a baggie full of bic style lighters that I threw in my hurricane kit. Surprising when I count them, I've only went to this cig shop that gives you a free lighter per carton for no more than 5-6 months last year yet I have almost 30 lighters...yikes!

 

[StevenServo]

if you have any bics or scriptos throw them on the ground and watch them explode if not maybe sell them?

 

[TheJakeBailey]

5 months later and I'm still finding them. Seems like when I smoked, I could never find one. Lol

 

[StevenServo]

5 months later and I'm still finding them. Seems like when I smoked, I could never find one. Lol

here a question whats the wierdest place you have found one? i found one in the freezer lol

 

[Topacka]

I always have a lighter, pocket knife, and magnetic compass on me in case of emergency. It was a habit instilled in me at a young age. I end up using all three more often than most people think, at least 2 of them once a day (for some random task). Point being, if you were caught in a snowstorm on a mountain pass and remembered that you have a knife and a lighter in the glove box, it could save your life, or you could just use it to open a couple beers. Either way, it's not junk just because you don't use it to light the ends of death sticks anymore.

Just my 2 cents though.

 

[xyanide]

I gave my first zippo to a colleague, it was pretty dinged up. I still own a limited edition of the 40th moon landing anniversary and I'm not planning to sell that anytime soon. Unless one of you collectors comes up with a good offer!

 

[Bunnykiller]

put them into a box, put the box in a safe, store for 50 yrs, sell for a serious profit... One day when smoking will have gone away, the associated hardware will be collector items.

 

[Ken_A]

If you have that many...
DiResta- Matt Makes a "Lighter" Coffee Table - YouTube

 

[Mark Anthony]

I use them for heating kanthal wire up when rebuilding coils and lighting candles.......

 

[WattWick]

Donate them to your local kindergarten.

 

[OldSeer]

Seems from times past I have and old drawer full of... now what did you call those old things again???

 

[Thunderball]

if you have any bics or scriptos throw them on the ground and watch them explode if not maybe sell them?

The old scripto's are the most colllectable..( The ones with the advertisements, fish lures, dice etc inside the tank. ) Most others do not command much money.

(Was a lighter collector...especially Scripto)