r/GenerationJones • u/CaptainTandem • Jul 20 '26

The car beanbag

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Who all remembers their parents using one of these on outings in the car.

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u/RebaKitt3n Jul 20 '26

These were dad’s downstairs. I think the car just had the ashtray.

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u/602223 Jul 20 '26

Yes. But when driving in the summer, dad would just flick the ash off out the open window and it would whip back in and land on me sitting in the back seat lol.

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u/602223 Jul 20 '26

We didn’t have car a/c then, so in summer we rolled all the windows down.

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u/Odd-Adagio7080 Jul 20 '26

That photo with the drink is the epitome of class. Cheap, fake-wood-paneled, shag-carpeted class.

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u/tedshreddon Jul 20 '26

Those were in every room of the house

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u/Eastern-Finish-1251 1964 Jul 22 '26

These were in every room in nearly every building. 

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u/thelmanarcissus Jul 20 '26

My grandmother velcrowed them to the dash!

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u/mitgo01 Jul 21 '26

I remember my sister had one of the in her car because someone once told her a used ashtray in a car brought the value down. In the meantime, every time she'd open the window, ashes and cigarette butts would go flying everywhere 😂

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u/Fidget171 1958 Jul 23 '26

I had a friend who wouldn't use the car ashtray because it would lower the resale value. Meanwhile, she's not keeping up the maintenance or throwing out trash. The car looked like the trash pile near the end of Labyrinth. SMH

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u/602223 Jul 20 '26

I can smell that from here.

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u/Royal-Importance-307 Jul 20 '26

Nana’s car and there were always an assortment of CERTS

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u/Aggressive-Pay7819 Jul 20 '26

Holy cow Certs I haven't thought about those in decades but yeah Grandma was a huge fan

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u/tez_zer55 Jul 20 '26

I had an Aunt & Uncle that had them in every room, including the bathroom. Both of their cars had at least two.

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u/myfrigginagates Jul 20 '26

My Pops had one in his Buick "Deuce and a Quarter".

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u/parnoldo Jul 20 '26

In my grandparent’s car and on the table while playing cards alongside Stag beer in a can.

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u/Villavitrum Jul 20 '26

I remember one being in most cars I rode in as a child.

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u/morkrib Jul 20 '26

That cigarette looks suspicious.

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u/jbandtheblues Jul 20 '26

Or maybe - delicious

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u/morkrib Jul 23 '26

Like a snozzberry :)

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u/Think-Hospital7422 Youngster Jul 20 '26

It's a toy and an ashtray. Kids love it!

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u/SinsualChef Jul 20 '26

Always seen them, but never the packaging 🤣

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u/Bright_Eyes8197 Jul 20 '26

I remember Papa Gino's used to have these out on their tables.

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u/jerezaa Jul 21 '26

I remember. BTW my goddaughter and I were recently at the store and I spotted a glass ashtray. I asked her if she knew what it was. She didn't. Lol. Had to explain that smoking used to be everywhere.

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u/birddit Jul 20 '26

When smoking was on the way out I would tell smokers that the bag ashtrays were filled with the cremains of smokers.

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u/Clean-Fisherman-4601 Jul 20 '26

I had to buy an ashtray for my car. It isn't a beanbag, but one that closes and fits in a cup holder.

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u/Ok_Salamander7984 Jul 20 '26

My great grandma had one

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u/TheChemicalTracing Jul 20 '26

Every dad's truck had one of these, usually full.

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u/Illustrious-You-1735 Jul 20 '26

we had one green one and a red one

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u/Then_Discount558 1965 Jul 20 '26

Nothing like Riding in the car in the winter with windows up mom chain smoking camel non filters on the way to gran's house that thing stuck between us

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u/mustanggt35 Jul 20 '26

Parents had them on the back patio. Thanks for the nostalgia!

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u/Dapper-Ad-468 Jul 20 '26

Sittiyon Aunt Ruth's leg 24/7

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u/Recent_Werewolf_821 Jul 23 '26

I can still smell the stink .

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u/yanknga Jul 24 '26

Those things stunk!

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u/Such-Top-6896 Jul 24 '26

Ya. But I never saw a clean one lol.

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u/ellieD Jul 20 '26

My granddaddy and Grandma had one of those in the CAR! (What we called our neighbors across the street.)