Does Anyone Else do This?

[OzPiper]

a well known vapour rub for colds and sore throats
My grandparents both Victorians by birth and subsequent nature used Sloans ‘Horse‘ Liniment as my grandfather would call it for every ailment to dogs and humans under the sun

Sloan's Liniment and Vicks Vapour Rub - now that brings back a few memories

 

[NookersTheCat]

Queue @Briar Lee to tell stories about his chaw-smokin' pappy

 

[WVOldFart]

Sloan's Liniment and Vicks Vapour Rub - now that brings back a few memories

My Grandmother believed that most ailments could be cured by Vicks Vapor rub, rubbing alcohol and Tums. She lived well into her eighties.

 

[NookersTheCat]

My Grandmother believed that most ailments could be cured by Vicks Vapor rub, rubbing alcohol and Tums. She lived well into her eighties.

My great grandmother believed that vicks vapo-rub was meant to be taken internally... my dad still can't stand even thinking of it because he remembers being force-fed spoonfuls of it while sick with a cold

 

[sardonicus87]

I have two ashtrays and a cheap "smokeless" can thing. The can thing is not smokeless anymore and rusted-out, but it's for cigarette ash. I don't save it, it's just that my smaller ashtray for cigarettes would fill up super fast, I only use the small ashtray for snuffing out cigarettes.

The big ashtray is where I dump my pipe ash and dottle. As you can see, it's like 95%+ ash. I don't save this either.

Occasionally, if there's still a bit of ember when I finish and dump my pipe, some of the dottle will catch and it's like having incense.

Don't judge my porch, I have about 9,876 projects I am working on, plus my wife is really bad at not putting stuff away and just tossing whatever, wherever.

 

[OzPiper]

My Grandmother believed that most ailments could be cured by Vicks Vapor rub, rubbing alcohol and Tums. She lived well into her eighties.

What ! We have the SAME grandmother ?


Grandma(Dad's mum) lived into her late 80s.
She didn't have much schooling because she came from a very poor farming family and had to care for 3 younger siblings and help around the farm when her mother passed away giving birth to her sister.
She was a wonderful woman, mother and grandmother.
Mum worked, so it was my Grandma who brought me up.

She was fond of her herbal remedies (dispensed by a Chinese herbalist) and natural nostrums

I miss her dearly.

 

[OzPiper]

My great grandmother believed that vicks vapo-rub was meant to be taken internally... my dad still can't stand even thinking of it because he remembers being force-fed spoonfuls of it while sick with a cold

In addition to Vicks, growing up in Malaysia, we had Tiger Balm.
I still have nightmares of my Grandfather applying that to my throat when I had tonsillitis
I put up with that as a tonsillectomy (despite the promise of bowls and bowls of ice cream) was my least preferred option.

 

[Mr North]

No Sorry hard pass. Ash, cigar ends, and the pipe dottle go straight into the flower garden.

 

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Sloan's Liniment and Vicks Vapour Rub - now that brings back a few memories

And both still in production, like many others I knew Vick was still around and popular but was surprised when googling for the correct spelling of Sloans to write of here that it also is still being manufactured. My grandmothers usage of the new fangled Vick whenever my grandfather got sick with a sore throat was to scoop a little out of the jar with a teaspoon and make him place it on the back of his tongue while telling him in French, she was Anglo French brought up In Paris when the temporary Eiffel Tower was being built that his sore throat was caused by the Tobacco he grew which was pretty potent stuff. His response in English was that she was torturing him with Vick was because he hung his tobacco leaves over her grapes that she grew to make wine on a south facing wall which caught the sun for most of the day. Their arguments would continue all day, hers in French and his in English although they spoke both English and French. A curios childhood at times for me and one that I consider myself lucky to have had.

 

[OzPiper]

And both still in production, like many others I knew Vick was still around and popular but was surprised when googling for the correct spelling of Sloans to write of here that it also is still being manufactured. My grandmothers usage of the new fangled Vick whenever my grandfather got sick with a sore throat was to scoop a little out of the jar with a teaspoon and make him place it on the back of his tongue while telling him in French, she was Anglo French brought up In Paris when the temporary Eiffel Tower was being built that his sore throat was caused by the Tobacco he grew which was pretty potent stuff. His response in English was that she was torturing him with Vick was because he hung his tobacco leaves over her grapes that she grew to make wine on a south facing wall which caught the sun for most of the day. Their arguments would continue all day, hers in French and his in English although they spoke both English and French. A curios childhood at times for me and one that I consider myself lucky to have had.

I count myself very fortunate to have grown up with my (paternal) grandparents sharing the house.
My Grandma and Grandpa were hands-on carers.
So many happy memories with them

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I do that with loose change and eventually take it to the bank and even though I have the same amount of money, it feels like I just got a bunch of money, lol, just paper.

I'll just say I don't view dottle as an investment any more than stuff that gets cleaned off plates after dinner. Gets tossed.

 

[Copperhead]

Negative. I toss it.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I have a big glass jar, a nice thing with rips running up the sides. It narrows on the bottom and becomes somewhat bulbus at the top with a glass lid and a knob at the top. But inside I have, filled to the brim, dottle which I've been collecting. I'll post a picture sometime to show you exactly what I mean, but in the meantime, I've bought a second jar, similar in design, and have begun to fill it. It took me about a year to fill the first jar.

Does anyone else do this?

This gave me a good laugh, and my girlfriend, too. She's obsessed with naval lint, although doesn't collect it as for as I know.

About saving dottle, it's not for re-smoking. Seems a lot of folks thought that's what I meant. I noticed when I smoke a bowl too far down, and end up smoking the dottle, it irritates my throat.

I’m curious—if you’re not saving this for re-smoking, why are you saving it? What happens after you fill the second jar? Start a third? If you enjoy it, that’s cool. I would just like to understand the appeal.

I don’t save dottle from the bottom of a smoked pipe. However, I do have a jar that receives the bits of tobacco that didn’t get filled in my pipes. I’m pretty good at eyeballing how much tobacco will fit in a chamber, so there isn’t always some to put in the jar apart from some dust, but I figure it’ll be an interesting smoke at some point in time.

 

[NookersTheCat]

I’m curious—if you’re not saving this for re-smoking, why are you saving it? What happens after you fill the second jar? Start a third? If you enjoy it, that’s cool. I would just like to understand the appeal.

I don’t save dottle from the bottom of a smoked pipe. However, I do have a jar that receives the bits of tobacco that didn’t get filled in my pipes. I’m pretty good at eyeballing how much tobacco will fit in a chamber, so there isn’t always some to put in the jar apart from some dust, but I figure it’ll be an interesting smoke at some point in time.

Yes the All-Sorts Jar I think is a much more common occurrence... I'm usually a heathen who just fills the pipe over the jar/bag and let the excess fall back into the source but I know many others who do this and probably should start myself haha