It used to be like this.
And now it looks like this: empty ash trays and only a few. I just kept the nicer ones because they look OK on a shelf somewhere.
I stopped smoking about 25 years ago. Mr. Swiss still smokes, but at the age of 83 I do not think it would now make a difference and he is now in a senior home. My apartment is smoke free. If someone wants to smoke here they have to go in the garden or stop smoking. The other alternative is that they leave. Sorry I have no understanding for any sort of ash remainders.
Otherwise the only ash here might be from a neighbour with a bar-b-que.
Although that seems to be more smoke than ash.
FDP Saturday: Ash
Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss 
And may that smoke remain as it is, coming from the barbecue and not from the greenery around it!
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This neighbour gave it up eventually. She never did discover how to do it.
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I quit on 1 December 1998, and never looked back. Like you, there is a “No Smoking” rule in my place.
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I don’t even feel like smoking. I am so glad that I gave it up. And to be quite honest I do’t think I could afford it today.
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Yep. I do not understand the habit. My Triad Asthma is thought to be the result of living my childhood with a chain smoker, but who knows…
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My mum smoked, my dad smoked and I smoked, although I stopped in between when I was pregnant. I have never regretted that I stopped.
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That looks like opal.
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I think it’s a polished stone.
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I have never smoked and I hate the smell so I can imagine that you don’t miss it in your house.
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I stopped smoking about 25 years ago and I am glad. No-one smokes here now and I am so glad.
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