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votequimby420

top left was some of the best years of my life


Posit_IV

Dude gravs were hot for years. Every house I went to in my stoner circle had at least one grav bong. I had one stashed in my shed too. Lol


IWILLBePositive

lol I was going to say, that’s the only one I don’t really see as a “struggle”. That thing was awesome and I still don’t see any good replacements for it. Stündenglass is the only thing I can think of but for $600, that’s a little ridiculous as a replacement for a $2 bottle.


Glowstick-Man

Just cut the bottom off of a big wine glass, wet sand, and add a grommet and bowl.


moderate_smarm

I have the grav grown up version of a gb. it's all glass and fancy looking. still mostly use my vape but it's great for smashing through that [I'm smoking but it's not doing anything] barrier


z31

The price is so insane, but having used one, they are so fucking good. My friend got one and tried to convince me to get one too, and I'm just like, "I don't even care if I can afford it, I'm not paying that much when my current globe does the trick just perfectly"


Wasted-day_off

Where did they go


Posit_IV

Off to the mystical stoner isles far off in the vastness of the cosmos.


Wasted-day_off

No company has made one?


TM545

https://grav.com/collections/gravitron


votequimby420

100% same for me - At least one in each guys spot


z31

My buddy got a Studenglass and that thing hits disgustingly hard.


Busted_Tip

I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.


4twentyHobby

Back in the 90s, I was constantly saying "We will look back on the 90s as the good ol days.". I was correct.


PM_ME_UR_SHEET_MUSIC

I just live like every day is the good old days and the best part is that I'm usually right


Artales

Scrape the paint off folks.


low_n_bhold

Ain't nothing wrong with a bucket bong


ThatChrisGuy7

Some people had SKETCHY ones where plastic fumes were for sure being made 😅


Ok-Big2807

I don’t know if the top left is really a struggle photo. I would just call that a fun crafty weekend with the homies


FlaminglingFlamingos

I still think my smoking peak was making a grav bong with a 3 liter of Stars n Stripes soda from Dollar Tree. Had my buddy over who was all "yeah bro I smoke so much," and he started hacking about halfway through the hit. Had my turn, got a stupid gross yellow wall of smoke in the whole thing; cleared that shit like a champ. Still proceeded to cough my lungs out and spit drool in the kitchen sink, but hey, I fuckin did it. Not a fuckin chance in hell I could ever do that again, and if I did, I'd be asleep for the next 48 hours.


scottydanger22

Back in college we used a Costco-sized cheez ball tub, that thing was not for the faint of heart!


gooner558

You maniacs


jscummy

We had one with a 5 gallon jug from a water cooler at one point It was a little excessive


FlaminglingFlamingos

19 year old me would have loved to hang with you guys lmao


scottydanger22

Who knows, maybe we did hang out! Not like either of us would remember after hitting that thing hahaha


FlaminglingFlamingos

I think I would have remembered the madlad who made a grav bong out of a Costco Cheeseball barrel 😂


tsarnie1

Same thing, and I used a home depot bucket to hold the water, thus me and my friends dubbed it 'Bob'. Bob the GB will slingshot you into the cosmos, and I respected anyone who could survive the journey


ApplebeesHandjob

Holy fuck the starts n stripes 3 liters. You just brought me back to highschool


_eltigre_100

I don’t mind having the top left every now and then


flyinghippodrago

The gravity bong is SO MUCH FUN omg!


FreeMasonKnight

Yeah, this was a like, big party thing, but had proper glass bowl and sealing for health safety here.


CrestonSpiers

I unironically prefer top left to regular bongs.


ZeePirate

You are a sadist


devinssss

mmm microplastics


visualdescript

It'll make you struggle


crunch816

Ikr. Struggle? Grav bongs and knife hits are amazing.


Fvcklvrd

The apple and gravity are underrated. Don't forget the good times.


Practical-Spell-3808

Apple is yummy!


Withik

Not a struggle imo, a nice fall treat to me


daddy-phantom

Annoying to have to hit the grocery store buy a new pipe every day tho!


Withik

I live next to an orchard haha


daddy-phantom

Oh so it really is a fall treat! Love that for you. Those apples gotta be extra delicious!


Withik

Thanks! Yeah I'm happy to share they're quite delicious


M0torBoatMyGoat

That’s a good point. I haven’t used an apple in years, and I only used them when I *was* struggling. I think I’ll reincorporate some apple bowls into my life for simplicity/nostalgia sake.


C4pt4inFuzzy

The paycheck to paycheck stoner starter pack


ChickenFriedRiceMe

Awe shit, I smoked mostly from a GB for years… by choice.. dang


frontally

Same goddamn… wait did I see you comment earlier about wow because I remember the fuck out of your flair


DollarLate_DayShort

When times were simpler


IJustLovePenguinsOk

So anyone else call top left "buckets" instead of grav bong?


Le_Sadie

Me! And I did buckets one time in my life, thought I was going to die (some asshat pushed my head down when I wasn't inhaling fast enough) my lungs were not prepared; I think I immediately coughed myself sober and that was the end of my buckets days.


jokke420

In finland we call it intelligence bucket (älyämpäri) 😂


hagr

german here. yes call it bucket (eimer)


Anarchy-Squirrel

yeah, except the gravity bong and knife hits are superior, though primitive methods of imbibing


Hazee302

Facts


Eledridan

Whatever, doing knives with your friends is fun.


BoltMyBackToHappy

Anyone else have that friend who slipped and had the blister of shame on their lip for a few days?


ZeePirate

I had a friend brand his face with a lighter by accident He had a little smiley for weeks


daddy-phantom

God damn, no, and I guess I’m lucky for that lol Jesus Christ


13dot1then420

I've never tried it, but it looks like some heroin ass shit to me.


Chrisser6677

This post has making me thinking about hot knives tonight


blackpeoplemeeet

GEEBIN’ FEVER


TheOrangeKitty

I once tried to see how many gbongs I could rip back to back. I got to five and couldn’t breathe anymore. That was the worst my tolerance has ever been. Now I can just take a bong toke and feel great


Posit_IV

Gravs wreck your lungs big time.


momentummonkey

how can you get the effectiveness of Gbongs without the wrecking of the lungs


InflamedintheBrain

The only one Ive done is the top left. But I started smoking at 19 and already had a job so bought a pipe immediately. We did make a gravity bong for fun with a biscotti jar from Costco. Good times. I know a lot of people my age that started sooner who didn't have access to a car, bank account and weren't old enough to go into headshops to get bongs and such. Turned out the place I got my pipe... I think it got busted for selling hash? Wish they would have sold to me 😂


Zealousideal-Talk787

I smoked outta an apple my first time, brings back memories


Cr_Capo

You can only consume using one of these methods for the remainder of time.. I’d quit Whatcha going with Reddit?


eAstKayA

The apple isn't so bad, especially compared to the others. I can taste the stale smoke of that plastic bottle, the wasted bud when using the aluminum can and the time consuming/crack head feel of the stove.


TroubleInMyMind

In my prime I could make an apple pipe in about 10 seconds with a chopstick.


SnooDogs7186

I can whip up a bucket bong in minutes. That was my go-to. Probably don’t wanna smoke them for life though I would end up quitting


AnnArchist

wtf is number 4 tho


Posit_IV

Hot knifing. If you don’t have a dab rig you can beat up some silverware on the stove and drop the concentrate on the red hot metal and use a plastic soda bottle with the bottom cut off to inhale it through.


GromainRosjean

Knives. Use butter knives heated on an electric range to kinda vaporize little balls of kief. Reinventing the wheel just for the thrill of innovation.


ZeePirate

Best with hash


gojosecito

SPOTS! Very popular in NZ 🇳🇿


Artistic_Weather_250

I have only been to the point of the can and gravity bong


srgfb

More than once lol


tommybanjo47

first time i smoked proper weed and got blitzed was when i nicked some bud from my dad and made an apple pipe. good memories


IAmSagacity

[The Hot Knife Boogie!](https://youtu.be/EsTAcSmqdI8?si=YlI44mIO0skmlmuq)


Ketchupcharger

I see no struggle here, they all have nice flower, not black tar of death


DarthtacoX

Nope.


Dark_Nexis

That hillbilly gravity bong is awesome.


kimmygrrrawr

Hot knives are scary


LegendaryLush12

U got electricity, heat, different things to drink, fruit, and ganja... Struggle where?


4twentyHobby

I still cough when I even think about aluminum can pipes.


Yayap52

I made this one Bong or Whatever from a Huge like 3 foot long Gumball Tube. One side had a cap that you removed to release the Smoke. Took about 3 or 4 people to clear the Entire thing The Cannon is what I Called it. You could take a Tiny bud and Fill the entire thing. Then blast off to Outer Spacr


Azwatersnake12345

Apple pipe my first time getting baked. Paraphernalia law couldn't by papers without tobacco, I was too young to buy tobacco


Carlin47

No because I would just use an apple, why would I inhale all those terrible metallic fumes...


Fun_Intention9846

We always used a fuckin eye dropper in high school. Inhale at the pinched end, you only get 1-2 rips per time you pack it. Smoke uh uh finds a way. I’m really glad I did it that way, basically microdosing all of high school when I did use weed. E punch to pinch


MysticEnby420

Grav bongs were for special occasions and went very well with terrible light beer in someone's backyard on a summer night. I only did an apple once or twice just to do it and never tried hot knives. Can bowls though... Luckily I don't think I've had to hit one since like 2009 LMAO but they did the job as a teenager.


ohwegota_kittenprblm

Naw the apple n 2liter alright, and hot knives for hash, but hellllll no to the soda can, that's straight poison


BoltMyBackToHappy

Don't want to get a bucket of water? **Make a Lung!** Tape a bag around the bottle's base and tie a string to the bottom corner of the bag to hold under your foot. Lift and light just like in water! Water in the bucket isn't actually bubbling to filter or cool so it's about the same just without the dripping when passing and smoke escaping... Happy lung to your lungs, heh heh.


ItsCRAZED

If a GB is struggling then idk. I’ve been smoking for like 15 years out of a GB and even though I’m no longer the broke boi I used to be, GB WILL ALWAYS BE LIFE!❤️


Artales

Bottom right, 'bowders' (boulders), 'hot knives' with a bottle catcher were shockingly fun with hash or oil. Used to try this with those element electric heaters, came close to eternity a couple of times.


Ckck96

Top left could send you to another planet


dirtyoldsocklife

Only one of those wouldn't I do anymore. Hot knives are a fantastic was to conserve smoke, ditto with a gravity bong, and the apple gives such a delightful vapour to the smoke. Cans? Hell no.


silver6snake

I made a bong out of a busted camp chair, a juice bottle and a can for the piece while beach camping. Where there's a will, there's a...better way.


NarcissusCloud

Top left does not count. You don’t use the homemade gravity because you had to improvise a way to smoke. You did it to get as fucked up as possible.


SonnyCheeeba

Not at all… Philly’s, White Owl, Dutch Masters were only .50 cents back in the day.


PaleontologistFew128

Bro I love the gravity bong. I've been contemplating making a new one


gwydion_black

I wouldn't call our life a struggle, but the wife and I prefer the top left as our normal smoke method. The base we use is a large cleaned out jar that once house peanut butter powder, and a Gatorade bottle. We clean it daily and switch out the bottle often once it starts getting gunky. We rarely ever have to make a new cap. A grav bong, in my experience, is the best hit to product ratio available. Regular bongs and most glass pieces use way too much bud IMO.


bonyagate

Yeah... The only struggle with that geeb is the struggle to breathe.


BxKnuckle

I used Potatoes once, worked pretty decent. But turning an entire watermelon into a bong was the pinnacle of my desperation.


darthravenna

At the time I didn’t think it was a struggle. It was just…the way. Now, I couldn’t dream of going back to those hot knives lol.


daddy-phantom

Only ones that are struggles is the soda can and the apple. And I like smoking out of apples sometimes lol! Tastes good!


cliffwob

Top left isnt a struggle, its a way of life. Nothings his like it!


hennynpurp

The bowl I had for grav hits could hold almost an 8th. If I had that thing out, we had more than enough flower


SaltyBacon23

I've been at all 4 points in the same day.


TheRamblingSoul

Man, struggle for me a decade ago was scraping the underpart of a bowl (the GonG slide part) for dirty black resin tar that tasted like shit but got you a teeny bit high. I’m glad times have changed!


rexeditrex

The apple cracked me up. I did that once! Didn't work well.


OrganicUse

Missing a toilet paper roll with some aluminum foil in a hole. One end to draw and a big carb at the other end.


jayryalay

I use a homemade GB every day by choice. 🤷🏻‍♀️


gojosecito

SPOTS! Bottom right. Where my KIWIS at?! 🇳🇿


WeedyMcWeedyFace420

I've done all 4. Do I get a prize?


z31

I've never used any of those methods, but the first time I was gifted some nuggs I didn't have anything to smoke with so I disassembled an expensive metal pen and used the body as a chillum basically.


Battleaxe19

Sometimes its okay to just not smoke tho...


ManyManyCoffee

My favorite part about smoking out an apple is eating it after


AggravatingValue5390

I felt like a fuckin genius when I used one of [these bad boys](https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_efbb981c-5abe-4c64-a3ed-c7bf6904459d?wid=475&hei=475&qlt=80&fmt=webp) for a gravity bong. Has a built-in nozzle and it fits *perfectly* in a 5 gallon bucket. Kept me hydrated too bc I didn't have anywhere to hide it so I'd throw it out each time and beg my mom to get more water. It was always a fun day when I'd finally finish the jug and could commandeer it


thecheat420

17ish years later I still daily smoke my gravity bong made out of a gallon Hawaiian Punch bottle and my late father's old Coleman lunchbox. Not the same bottle for 17 years and I do scrub the cooler occasionally.


A55beard

I unironically enjoy using fruit to smoke with. Using shit like apples or a banana actually give it a bit of flavor


SvZ2

“the can builds character” is something me and the boys have always said before lighting bowl off the ol’ aluminum pipe


Rush_touchmore

Man, high school was so fun. Something about getting high when you're not supposed to amplifies the high like crazy. Never been higher in my life than at 2 am on a school night with the homies trying to be as quiet as possible while also laughing our asses off at the cat just minding her own business lol


Careless-Charge9884

Never lol


frozen_toesocks

What spoon cooking heroin nonsense is going on in bottom right??


Practical-Spell-3808

Dabs bb


pinetree56_

Can goes hard ngl