Garage sale ashtrays

[adriedel]

I don't know if anyone remembers garage sales when you were a kid's.  But I used to scourer them for cool ash trays for my parents.

      Now that I'm smoking more and more cigars I can't help looking forward for garage sale season.

I'm hoping to find some wicked cool ashtrays.  And way better than paying $30 for one at a cigar store.

Has anyone found any cool ashtrays in interesing places?

[irratebass]

I haven't but I have been waiting for Garage Sale season for this very reason too.

[fretburn]

I dont garage sale, but my wife does. She's been informed to be on the lookout for that kinda stuff.

[Ken Kelley]

Since I rarely smoke in the house I only have one ashtray and don't feel deprived. When I'm in my shop I don't worry about dropping an ash all that much unless flammables are open or there's a pile of sawdust in the way. Otherwise, the world is my ashtray!

[nwb]

Not ashtrays, but I keep a lookout in the ads for other cool cigar stuff (humidors, lighters, etc).

[lubrix]

nwb - 4/13/2012  11:58 AM

Not ashtrays, but I keep a lookout in the ads for other cool cigar stuff (humidors, lighters, etc).

X2

[mike46]

Commercial thrift stores, like our "Value Village" stores up here in Canada, or other such stores some of which are fundraising for groups, etc.  Sometimes have some very interesting stuff that people have discarded or donated, etc.

[Bob Cordell]

Found you a nice one!!!!!


http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-GLASS-ASHTRAY-SAYS-STOLEN-FROM-MABELS-WHORE-HOUSE-/170823127430?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27c5da1186

[uplander12ga]

Bob Cordell - 4/13/2012  2:56 PM

Found you a nice one!!!!!


http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-GLASS-ASHTRAY-SAYS-STOLEN-FROM-MABELS-WHORE-HOUSE-/170823127430?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27c5da1186

          Only you could find something like this Bob! Only you hahaha!!!

[lubrix]

I might have to bid on that one!.

[CHRIS7891011]

Going to watch that and see how high it gets. Haha! Awesome.


I love finding cool things like that when I go antiquing. My coolest find was a match box that had a picture of my favorite car on it.

1965 Buick Wildcat

[87North]

Ol' Bob comes up with some good stuff... You should see his swanky smokin' jacket.  

[lukin]

I have an awesome iron ash tray stand that's got vines going up the sides that holds a nice four finger copper ashtray.  It needs to be sand blasted a bit since I keep it outside and the rust is getting to it, but I love it.  It was a gift from my father-in-law who is a blacksmith.

[McBryde]

I found a nice humidor with a drawer on the front of it for $10 one time. This was before I was smoking heavily, and I sold it on eBay for $65. SCORE more $$ for the habit!

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[angiesmith]

The down economy has pressured many to find income in any way they can. It has made a cottage industry of the once civilized spring cleaning activity of holding garage sales. Some municipalities have taken exception and started cracking down on so-called "extreme" yard sales.From the source I gathered, According to Tagsellit.com, Americans hold about 45,000 garage sales every weekend.Imagine that. Well,because of this, more and more, cash-strapped Americans have been organizing garage sales as a way to raise income rather than as a way to clear out old, unwanted stuff. Resource for this article: Cities crack down on extreme garage sales.

[Brlesq]

angiesmith - 4/24/2012  1:32 AM

The down economy has pressured many to find income in any way they can. It has made a cottage industry of the once civilized spring cleaning activity of holding garage sales. Some municipalities have taken exception and started cracking down on so-called "extreme" yard sales.From the source I gathered, According to Tagsellit.com, Americans hold about 45,000 garage sales every weekend.Imagine that. Well,because of this, more and more, cash-strapped Americans have been organizing garage sales as a way to raise income rather than as a way to clear out old, unwanted stuff. Resource for this article: Cities crack down on extreme garage sales.

   Ummm . . . "hello" is a more customary introduction, but I guess charging in is another approach.  Welcome to our cigar forum.  Do you smoke cigars Angie Smith?  

[Cfickter]

Great plan, my wive would faint if I told her I wanted to go garage sale'ing with her

[Hot Stuff x]

Brlesq - 4/24/2012  9:50 PM


   Ummm . . . "hello" is a more customary introduction, but I guess charging in is another approach.  Welcome to our cigar forum.  Do you smoke cigars Angie Smith?  

Nice try...  

[FNA]

I have found, in flea markets at least, that nice ashtrays are not as commonplace as they once were.  In fact, they seem somewhat of a rarity.

"I have an awesome iron ash tray stand that's got vines going up the sides"  I sold one  of these (kind of a flat aspect to vines and leaves) perhaps a decade ago when moving - seller's remorse today

[kola]

A nice big wooden chest for cheap. That's what I'm going to be looking for. Something that could easily be lined with spanish cedar ...

[87North]

kola - 4/24/2012  5:19 PM

A nice big wooden chest for cheap. That's what I'm going to be looking for. Something that could easily be lined with spanish cedar ...

Or hold a corpse...

[mobarbq]

I know one thing you don't want to do... go into a Salvation Army store and ask them if they have any ashtrays.  The lady was pretty indignant to me, said "We are a Christian thrift store! We don't carry such a thing." Well, alrighty then.

[Akkahuna]

Garage Sales, Flea Markets, 2nd hand stores and up here in Alaska, yes the Salvation Army.  What Christians don't enjoy cigars? Sorry mobarbq you just ran into a #$&*@ !!!!!!

[Shukpaw]

Any place that is selling casino memorabilia should have some interesting ashtrays.

I can see the Salvation Army in the middle of the country being different than the ones in Alaska.