Cannazine Review

Great ideas, solve problems!

All the very best ideas tend to be simple solutions to a problem or annoyance. In this instance as soon as I saw the "skinnytray", I knew what problem it was going to solve on my behalf.

Measuring approximately 40 cm's x 30 cm's, the skinny tray is essentially a translucent rigid flat, moulded tray, with the horizontal dividing line being split at about 70/30. So it’s a tray but with a bit of a twist.

Moulded into the surface of the skinnytray, are two sets of "lugs".

These lugs hold a pair of sealable tins not dissimilar to the old tobacco tins we were able to buy our tobacco in before metal packaging became taboo and unenvironmentally friendly, (or is that environmentally unfriendly - life's a quiz eh?).

Furthermore, the surface of the skinny tray is moulded with a deep "V" which runs the entire width of the skinnytray's upper surface. Ideal for wrapping either a single skin doob to enjoy with the movie/sport on TV, or an umber-long 5 skin joint to share amongst company. Everything is to hand.

At my finger tips. Because the skinny tray is wide and flat, not narrow and tall, there's no need to stack stuff up on it.

I can see everything. All at the same time!

I've had the same clipper lighter in my possession, ever since I started using the skinnytray as it lives (now)in the trough. Normally I go through three clippers a day, ranting and swearing at the non-existent thieves who keep having it away with them when I'm not watching.

No matter how you enjoy a smoke the skinnytray will play its part, soon becoming a firm and established favourite in your personal smoking paraphernalia.

Traditional Stash Boxes

For a long time, traditional wooden stash boxes have been en vogue! It has to be said that you can't beat a well-made, natural wood product.

You can smell it. Feel it. It’s tactile. Pleasurable to work with, and if it comes from sustainable sources, you can feel good about yourself too. Good on you!

My own effort (however) is an old cardboard after-shave gift box I 'commandeered' off my oldest son one Christmas time not so long ago.

In fairness I've been using it for over three years and its still going strong. But, very many more coffee soakings and it will simply fall apart.

Piling things up, especially when the 'things' include full cups of coffee is a recipe for disaster however you look at it. But where the skinnytray differs, is in its ability to contain a spill. Oh yes! Make no mistake! On this level the skinnytray is a hands-down 'market-leader'.

Bedtime

Come bedtime here at wysiwyg towers, and my need for a workable solution really comes to the fore as I pile my seemingly growing-larger-by-the-day pile of "stuff" into/onto my old, cardboard stash box.

But instead of piling my ashtray, coffee cup (full), as well as the rest of my "doings", which all need carrying to the boudoir, on top of my box, which (its fair to mention) has bore witness to more than one or two cataclysmic spills in the past, resulting in more than a few grams of coffee-soaked cannabis being smoked. My current solution?

Everything is to hand.

Loadit up

But in this instance I simply load up the skinnytray for the treacherous journey ahead which see's me negotiating wild animals and natives (the cat likes to sleep half-way up the stairs meaning I need to make a massive double step when I'm already puffing and blowing, and the kids are liable to be wandering around looking for the loo!!).

Skinnytray

The first thing that struck me regarding the skinnytray, was the size, or lack of it. It’s a diminutive piece of equipment which is only a few centimetres thick. This allows the skinnytray to be stashed away pretty much anywhere that's handy, due to the dimensions of the moulded item. If the height of a tobacco tin will fit, so will the skinnytray

An underwear draw, or maybe in the space left by the castors/legs, between the sofa and carpet. Yep! It’s that skinny, even with the tins attached, and this is the key behind what is a really clever design. The entire skinnytray adds no height to a regular tobacco tin, but lots of surface area. Enough in fact, for two tobacco tins and lots of flat space.

And as it’s a flat open 'tray' as opposed to an enclosure, you can carry larger, bulkier items (like TV remote's/bottles of bud/potato chips) in a way you just can’t manage with a wooden stash box, unless you have the balance and coordination of a member of the Russian State Circus and that’s just not me I'm afraid!

The "trough", a "V" which runs the full width of the tray, is wide enough to contain the largest of doobies-in-construction, for when you're feeling sociable.