What to do with the lighters?

[redsarrow]

So it may be a bit premature, but I am going to go out on a limb and say.. I don't need no stinking lighters no more!

Still, it seems a waste to just throw them away. I mean, as a smoker I was forever losing and refinding, washing and drying, dropping and buying new lighters. I have a myriad of shapes a rainbow of colors, most hardly used because they got put "away" and then I couldn't find them again... so I'd go buy a new one.

I can't bring myself to throw them away, someone will use them. But then I would feel guilty enabling someone elses bad habit (darn that built in guilt feature)

There must be something fun I can do with them.... Ideas?

 

[Sorrid]

Encase them in lucite as a memorial to your old, dead, stale smoking smelling self.

But keep one for candles!!

 

[JonnyVapΣ]

I used Zippos. They're tucked away safe. The disposables are on grill and candle duty.

 

[Stosh]

Have you considered the Modders Forum, they'll make a PV out of absolutely anything.

 

[EricB]

Save it for if & when you have a power outage & need to light candles or just toss it in a trash can & enjoy the sound of it being thrown away.

 

[redsarrow]

Encase them in lucite as a memorial to your old, dead, stale smoking smelling self.

But keep one for candles!!

I love that idea.. may have to make some mini shadow boxes.. that would make some intriguing wall art!

I used Zippos. They're tucked away safe. The disposables are on grill and candle duty.

Candles are covered.. I have one of those long special for candles and grills lighters in the kitchen for that. And if I didn't have an electric start grill i'd be lost...

Have you considered the Modders Forum, they'll make a PV out of absolutely anything.

Now that would be ironic.. and really flipping cool!

 

[oldsoldier]

LOL last night I stopped to put air in my tire and it went like this:

1. OMFG I can't read the gauge because I don't have a flashlight with me and no longer carry a lighter.
2. Damn, I don't use a PV with a LED.
3. I guess I need a flashlight on my keychain thats too small to mod or ..
4. I'll have to retrieve a lighter from fireplace and grill duty.

 

[redsarrow]

oh that sucks...

add to the todo list.. put mini flashlight in the car, might as well throw a lighter in the glovebox too, not like I need it for anything else!

 

[medic123]

I threw all of my eaxtras in a bowl at work and set the bowl on a counter. They were gone within an hour.

 

[JonnyVapΣ]

Speaking of lighters.....people STILL ask to borrow mine.


Fun with a BiC
Cheapy Lighter Laser Burner

 

[MrsJaaxx]

I keep one in the makeup drawer to heat my eyeliner pencil. Makes it go on smoother.

 

[flbutterfly1]

I have 1 lighter, I mean I HAD one lighter my dad is a welder and his striker wasnt working so he "borrowed" my lighter now I am down to matches. Oh well I never could stand to smoke using matches the nasty sulphur taste so now I guess that pack of unopened smokes I have hidden just wont get smoked.

 

[technovapir]

I keep one in the makeup drawer to heat my eyeliner pencil. Makes it go on smoother.

I laughed (snorted) out loud seriously when I read that!! I used to do that too, until I burnt my eyelid one too many times!
Now I buy the soft kind that smudges easily, but it's safer for an impatient girl like me!

Anyway - On topic - we should take all our old lighters down to the airport and leave them at the outdoor smoking area for all those poor smokers who had theirs confiscated by TSA ! I remember always needing one when I got off the plane!

 

[icemanx3]

Definitely place them safely (away from children) in places for emergency use. I have one in my glove box for example, in case I fly off a snowy cliff, and end up in a ditch and nobody finds me for a while. That way I can light one of my tires as a smoke signal and create a fire for warmth. That is, if I survive the roll down the snowy mountain, which we don't have here in Silicon Valley

ice

 

[Demoness]

haha some of these posts are too funny!

I have 1 I have kept. It is on a brand new lighter leash (bought it like 3wks b4 i went to vaping) and it stays connected on my purse. I keep it for those times I may need light or a fire of some sort...which doesnt happen often. I just figure hey- u never know when you might need fire! Like maybe out fishing and the knife gets lost (or forgotten :/) and u need to cut fishing line. Or maybe to burn away those pieces of string that come unraveled on clothes every now and then (better than pulling them in my opinion). Or like Ice mentioned above- you drive off a cliff and get stranded in the snow- haha. Eh I just figure it could come in handy! I can't count how many times I had been out as a smoker and hear some yell, "Whose got a lighter?!"

 

[pianoguy]

Soldering with a lighter

 

[JonnyVapΣ]

Lighters...because rubbing two sticks together to make fire sucks.

 

[bruther]

I'll always have a supply of lighters, whether I smoke or not. I use them to light the wood stoves and my wife uses them to light her candles and her occasional cigar. I seem to always be using one for something. Just used one today to light the torch for sweat soldering, when I changed the faucet on the basement wash tubs.
It's always good to have lighters on hand. Kind of like guns, don't use them very often, but they're there when you need them.

 

[Belhade]

My wife still smokes, so she took most of my lighters. I still keep a Bic stashed away to a) open beer bottles and b) occasionally smoke stuff other than tobacco.

 

[Israfil]

Keep most of them safe.... you never know when the power will go out and you'll want to be able to make fire. ^_^

As for the rest... there's a lighter mod somewhere on the mod forums, or at least there was at one point.

Edit: wow...beaten to it on both points