How many disposable lighters is too many?

For some reason I can't resist buying attractive disposable lighters.

They put the 5 pack Bic lighters right by the cash register and if I see a pack that has all my favorite colors in it, I HAVE to buy it. My favorites are pink, orange and black. To find packs that have those colors only is fairly rare and super exciting for me.

I also buy those slim round lighters that fit in a cigarette pack (they're about the size of a cigarette). I hardly ever see them in stores as they're not stocked regularly, they come and go, but when I do spot them I buy a shitload of packs of them.

Right now I probably have about 40 lighters hanging round, that I KNOW of, there could be easily 40 more hiding. I find them everywhere, like in pockets of a jacket I wore last year and under my porch.

Collecting Zippos is understandable, but I don't think it's normal to buy so many disposable lighters. Is it?

1 lighter is enough. 4
2 or 3 should suffice. 6
It's fine to have 5-7. 18
10 lighters is just ridiculous. 0
20 lighters is a sign of mental retardation. 1
30 lighters means you're a hoarder. 1
40 lighters makes you batshit crazy and beyond help. 7
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Comments ( 27 )
  • howaminotmyself

    Control yourself.

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    • Subfinmatic

      Get a hold of yourself *shakes violently*.

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  • Did you check how many you may shoved up your ass?????????You may have a GOLD MINE of them up there.

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  • VioletTrees

    Make a bandolier immediately.

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  • NeuroNeptunian

    As someone who smoked for 5 years, let me be the first to tell you that you can NEVER have enough lighters. It always seems like just when you need one, there is never one there. So I would run down the the gas station and get one and I now have many dispersed throughout my car and apartment.

    Spending money puts money back into the economy. I had an Economics Professor who stated that there is no such thing as wasting money because that money goes back into the economy and in turn, helps fund paychecks. So if you can afford it, buy them, but uh... just be careful with them.

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  • 1000yrVampireKing

    I only have one and it is not working any longer.

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress

    none of the above:

    as long as what you have isn't hurting you or anyone else, it doesn't matter if it's 1-2 or 100.

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  • Bubbles-for-life

    wheres the -0 answer -.-? btw cigars and cigerettes have plane and jet fuel in them :O your runing your lungs

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  • Shackleford96

    Your options made me laugh, I voted for the last one :P

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  • Avant-Garde

    You need to get control of this as it sounds like you're becoming a hoarder. About 5 should be the limit of normality. Anything above that isn't normal especially if you aren't a smoker and none of them are being used.

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    • Oh, I DO smoke.

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      • Avant-Garde

        Well, that changes the circumstance somewhat, but you do you need to get control of this. Try to get yourself to a point where you buy more but only when the others have been used up.

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  • iin2want2know

    I also have 40+ lighters so I must be bat shit crazy too...lol

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  • dappled

    I have three. I still carry one to work and keep it with me, like I keep gum. I don't smoke any more but I carry the tools of the trade.

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    • Do you often offer to light the cigarette of a lady?

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      • dappled

        Heh! I used to get asked for a light quite often and it often led to interesting conversations. I'm going to miss the social aspect of smoking. :/

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  • one if its empty

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  • GuessWho

    Zero.

    I don't carry any lighters with me or buy them.

    I keep one decent refillable lighter and a matchbox in the kitchen drawer.

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  • thanksforthefreecar

    Wow that's a lot

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  • NothingxCrazy

    I don't think that makes you crazy. I usually lose mine if I have 3-4. It would be nice to have 40 lying around just in case I need one so I don't have to dig around for an hour to find one.
    The way you go about obtaining these lights might be a problem and sounds a bit like OCD. Does it go outside of lighters? Do you buy other things because of the colors?

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  • dirtybirdy

    Haha I buy the 5pack too if it has pink and orange. I like the yellow ones too. I need several lighters for all my needs. If the store has a brown one at the counter I'll buy that too.

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    • Justsomejerk

      I like brown ones, yellow ones and light green ones. They have to be bic.

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  • Darkoil

    The other week I had a clear out of one of my drawers which I usually empty my pockets into after a night out and I found about 50 lighters all of which I had stole of other people over a couple of years, I only ever take my zippo out with me and then when I'm drunk I just use whatever people hand to me then I must pocket them.

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  • Flaze

    When I was a smoker, I usually had maybe 2 bic lighters, and one of those lighters you can refill, I only bought lighters if I either didn't bring my lighter with me, or if I needed to get a new one.

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  • NotFloydzie

    I just buy some whenever I'm at a dollar store. You can buy a pack of three disposable lighters for a dollar so I go for it. I don't really go through a lot of lighters, I just lose them.

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  • anti-hero

    Anything more than a 5 pack at a time is bordering on insanity.

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  • MissyLeyneous

    25 lighters on my dresser yessir I gots to get paid
    25 lighters on my dresser yessir I gots to get paid
    I got 25 lighters for my 25 folks
    Bout to break the mic then break 25 mo'
    Bout to rip the track wit bout 25 flows
    and I'm pimpin like a mac wit bout 25 hoes
    25 fly carat diamonds in my ring
    25 twelves in the trunk got to bang
    Make moves to make a quick 25 mill
    Come up so I can knock off big nine-nine Seville
    Bout to take me bout 25 yellow bones home
    Doin bad to make them 25 phone home
    Call daddy sayin 25 got to go get 'em, get 'em
    DMD done put it down 25 out the door
    Hittin the highway doin 25 shows
    25 Lil Mo's slammin 25 doors
    Representin fo' those holdin 25 screws in they deck
    I'ma wreck and rip 25 crews quick

    25 lighters on my dressa yessir, I gots to get paid
    We got 25 lighters on the dresser yessir gots to get paid [x2]

    [Lil' Keke]
    I jumps up early and I yawns and stretch
    Anotha day another dolla, 'nother case to get
    I take my time and realize that this game is real
    I got my mind on firearms, but I'm swanging barbe grill
    Gots to act real bad when i close red doors
    I'm shootin spidas off my rims cuz I'm ridin on fours
    And niggaz don't understand that we be drinkin the norm
    Never trust broads they're frauds
    On the 'vard is where I sling when I claim my name
    Back in the game Hershallwood, Texas regained
    It's the nine-eight and I'm jumpin in the mix
    Rocks up on my wrists and got haters on my list
    How ya like me now cause I'm real
    Comin down piece and chain four shiny grills
    gots to bring havack where them boys at
    Fixin to break the mic now is that Fat Pat?

    [chorus x2]

    [Fat Pat]
    I'm so throwed in the game
    Southside Playas, Skrewed Up click mayne
    wit the finest set you can bet them smoove ass event
    comin through this motherfucker man, hold up and set
    Some niggaz catch me high like dat
    and some niggaz act like they wanna pull a gat
    but they betta watch out for the boy PAT
    that's them motherfuckin haters can they handle me
    cause I be so throwed in this game
    comin down on the swing
    Grip wood grain on the shirt I leave a stain
    Cause you try to jack a real true G
    comin down the boulevard
    can they see me swangin swangin swang till we live
    Pop my trunk and give give give
    Niggaz betta see a nigga roll
    starched down and I'm rollin on eighty fours
    If the nigga FAT represent the click
    right up in the bowl and a whole lotta shit
    Betta look around cause they don't understand it
    I'ma say, "Hold up!" and scream, "God dammit!"
    Cause I'ma let the cat gone grip and gone take a trip
    and it's the empty clip just throw it off the ship
    cause it's a throwaway gat
    It's that Fat Pat, where them haters at where them haterss at
    man love it man

    [chorus]

    love it man

    That's how we do it, DMD, Keke, Fat Pat
    G's in PA G's in tha city G's in the South so real [x2]

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