My parents were smokers, and these were everywhere

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UnitedLink4545@reddit

I can smell this picture. These were everywhere.

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javaper@reddit

Me too. I smell it and immediately felt that sofa plastic cover under my leg.

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soggywaffles812@reddit (OP)

To this day, I sometimes describe smells as "smells like cigarette ashes and lemons" because my mom would scrub these out with lemon Joy. The smell would fill the kitchen

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someguyfromsk@reddit

Why was everything in the 80's brown?

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xTugboatWilliex@reddit

Because of rampant smoking. It hid the stains.

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Sensitive-Review-712@reddit

Did they steal them from hotels? That's where my dad got his.

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LocallySourcedWeirdo@reddit

After my grandpa died of lung cancer, these were used for spare change. I have memories of them being filled with ashes and cigarettes, and then being filled with nickels and pennies.

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My parents got divorced in 95 and my mom took my brother and I to live with her in a different state (dad was an alcoholic). My mom quit smoking pretty much immediately and that was awesome. My brother and I went back up to my dad's the next summer I think and he still had these "sweet" tire ash trays. I thought they were the coolest thing so when we went back home I took one with. I was so pumped to give it to my mom because I thought it was cool and I just assumed she would think it was cool, too. I gave it to her and she seemed immediately confused. It was at that moment I remembered she quit smoking and thus had no use for it...

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ArchitectVandelay@reddit

What are kids gonna make us in art class now?

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john_the_quain@reddit

I told my kids it wasn’t uncommon for us to make ashtrays in art class while in grade/middle school and they thought it was very weird.

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mfhandy5319@reddit

My grandparents had these in the living room. I thought they were candy dishes. One day I was visiting, 20@thetime, I went out for a smoke. Came back in, and my mother asked why I went out to smoke because there are ashtrays right here.

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Blueberry_Mancakes@reddit

I literally have one of these on the table beside me. We don't smoke, but my relatives did and its a nice piece of glassware.

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Technical_Error_3769@reddit

Hey those are my grammas

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ItsArseniooooooooooo@reddit

I won one of these from the fair every year playing that game where you throw dimes at a bunch of dishes and plates sitting on a big rotating platter.

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sparrow_42@reddit

I still have the top one here somewhere.

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Lemmy_Axe_U_Sumphin@reddit

That’s one thing I don’t think about now but the entire world used to smell like stale smoke. It’s rare I smell cigarette smoke in 2024. I still smell smoke every day but nowadays it’s always weed.

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

We had one of these, but only one great uncle still smoked by the time I came along, so ours just kind of sat in the basement bathroom

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Shington501@reddit

Were you walls the same color?

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Minute-Nebula-7414@reddit

Even people who weren’t smokers had those ash trays.