r/whatisit • u/Natural_Ad_6882 • 11h ago

New, what is it? I found this handy dandy, purple plastic tube.

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What practical purpose could this have? What should/can I do with it?

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u/DickRiculous 10h ago

We used to call these Doob tubes because you’d store your half smoked jays or jays for concerts in them to keep them from getting crushed or reeking too bad of burnt pot. But our dumb asses probably didn’t realize we still reeked and were just smell blind to it. At least we were able to protect our jays from getting crushed or pulverized in our pockets lol.

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u/tswpoker1 10h ago

Lol I just found one of these in my desk drawer and was pumped thought it had a full joint in it. Opened it and it had like 1/3rd of one where I had smoked it earlier and saved this. No idea how long it was in there but fired it up and chiefed away!

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u/STLBudLuv 10h ago

kept in fresh in the tube

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u/CharleySuede 9h ago

In my younger years, I got iced/snowed in with my roommate for a week. We ran out of pot and my roommate was going through the junk drawer, in which he usually kept his pot, and he made some joking comment like “wouldn’t it be wild if I found some nugs that I put here and forgot about?”

He totally found an entire eighth that he completely forgot about!

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u/tswpoker1 9h ago

We found a sock drawer eighth and it's the best feeling ever

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u/ThaCurbsideProphet 8h ago

I’ve done this a couple of times. Bonus weed!

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u/MissSmkNmirrors 10h ago

Only users lose drugs, bro

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u/tswpoker1 9h ago

Then sign me up fo The Biggest Loser

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u/MissSmkNmirrors 9h ago

Best response! Wait, do you lose a lot of drugs?

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u/InsubordinateX 10h ago

That's what they're still supposed to be used for. "I used to do drugs. I still do. But I used to too"

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u/EastTennBull93 9h ago

We used to and still do call them doob tubes, because they’re for storing your doob for any reason.

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u/eells 9h ago

Used to?

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u/Don_Beefus 6h ago

Yea man... there's no way to mask half smoked doob smell

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u/DickRiculous 1h ago

Haha don’t I know it man. Not an issue for me these days.

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u/ChemicalBowler4150 6h ago

I remember when doob tubes cost like 10 bucks pop now they litter the streets as trash im an old guy and I have to fight the urge to collect them off the streets like they are still worth money.

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u/DickRiculous 1h ago

Hilarious since when I was a young lad, you’d buy a blunt and half the time it came in a tube you could reuse. A few bucks at most for a white owl or whatever.

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u/bobsmith93 4h ago

It took me waay too long to realize that plastic is permeable lol. Glass is the way to go for that