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Stash Essentials: The Must-Have Items for Every Cannabis Enthusiast
No stoner is complete without their Stash Essentials. The whole point of a smoke seat is adhering to a routine, a ritual you might say.
The ritual is not complete without having the things that you need to have a successful smoke session. That will not be decided until you take a proper inventory of what’s in your stash. From the type of papers you have, what do you have in there to mask the cloud of funk that is trying to follow you back inside for family dinner?
A wise person once told me, “If you stay ready you won’t have to get ready.” A good perspective to have is that the sober mind must help the high mind.” Ivy Hall can help you be prepared for anything by helping you gather your stash essentials!
Building Your Stash Box Essentials
It is essential to have specific items for all the steps it takes to smoke cannabis, and just like we cook, and then clean, after we smoke, cleaning is still a must. Essential cannabis toolkit items will keep you prepared before you smoke and after.
Of course, there has to be a place to store your bud. This is where smell-proof containers come in. These containers keep your bud fresh and contain the smell, you won’t know there is weed around until you crack open your smell-proof jar.
One thing about stoners is they are all about straight business, getting the joint rolled and ready to smoke! Having a grinder in your stash essentials cuts time in half and gets the crew closer to smoking your wonderful kush. Grinders can vary in size so depending on the volume of bud you are grinding, a small grinder is great to keep in your stash bag so you do not have to pick apart every nug on your bud.
When it comes to rolling the papers should be a constant in your stash bag. Loose papers and cones should be there. Papers are great when you are taking your time, but cones are an alternative and great for efficiency.
Cleaning your tools is an inevitable part of being a stoner. Your health could be negatively impacted by not cleaning your glass pieces. Glass is a convenient way to smoke, every stoner loves the ease of packing a bowl and puffing away, but we ruin the convenience for ourselves when we leave our pieces to brown with build-up.
In this post, we will discuss the must-have cannabis accessories that are essential to making you a prepared stoner. By investing in quality tools to complement your smoking experience you are guaranteed to be fully present for a wonderful smoke session.
Our Recommended Cannabis Stash Essentials
Let’s start breaking down the different items that make up our stash essentials. The items that complete our stoner tool kit. We want items that will be able to endure the frequency of smoking and could be helpful in whatever we cipher we join or start. The items listed below are the default items that should be part of your stash essentials.
Weed Grinders
An ideal grinder will have three chambers. The top part is where the grinder teeth are, the second is where the ground weed is collected. Finally, the third chamber will have the wonderful fine kief that taps off the flower with each grind. A great grinder will even have a small scooper so you can sprinkle the green dust in a joint or top a bowl.
Featured Product: The Tsunami Grinder
The Tsunami Grinder is one of the best grinders for weed. Its four chambers make it a perfect on-the-go tool doubling as storage and breaking down your weed. The sunken top makes it great for a good grip and effortless twisting, while the diamond teeth ensure a fluffed and fine grind. They come in a variety of colors and sizes depending on how much you are grinding, the tsunami grinder is an essential toolkit item.
Rolling Trays
A rolling tray is equivalent to a kitchen counter. It becomes your dojo of creation for rolling a joint or blunt. For 5-10 minutes, this is where your focus lies. My practice is to have a rolling tray for any occasion.
At home, a bigger rolling tray is great because you have a nice wide space to place your weed, scoop it up, and properly form your own work of art. Having more space with your rolling tray gives you a surface where the weed is caught without the worry of weed bits dusting your table or couch.
For on-the-go settings, or packing an on-the-go stash bag, a smaller rolling tray is better. It fits perfectly in a bag without taking up too much space, so more flower and other gadgets can accompany you on your outing as well. The rolling tray is your plate for you to build the foundation of your smoke session, thus making it an immensely necessary item to have as a stash essential.
Featured Product: The Ivy Hall Rolling Tray
Rolling trays for cannabis gives you a nice little spot to roll your weed. It catches all the loose weed you are rolling into your joint, blunt, or cone. It also serves as an operating table where you can construct the most potent joint you have ever smoked.
A good-sized rolling tray can hold a grinder, weed jar, lighter, and a rolling paper pack. In case you have to change rolling locations, it should be easy to pick your rolling tray up in one move and migrate your rolling station to another safe location.
Our Ivy Hall Rolling Tray has nice curved corners to help you scoop your weed back into the joint you are rolling. It is nice and wide making it the perfect mobile stash essential.
Smell-Proof Cannabis Containers
There are a lot of strains that are extremely dank. As soon as you open the jar, the whole room is alive with the twang of weed. Before any weed is smoked, it is the smell that entices stoners to break it down and smoke. The scent of a nug helps describe the terpene profile and how fresh the bud is. When you have some fire nugs you want to maintain the terps and the freshness with a smell-proof container.
Smell-proof containers make it possible to travel with your weed without leaking with the smell. Airtight smell-proof containers help protect your cannabis from oxidation which can degrade it. Investing in a smell-proof container does not have any cons. Having a spot to preserve your weed so you can get the most out of your high.
Featured Product: The Ivy Hall Smell Proof Bag
In order to have all of your tools together, you have to put them somewhere in one place. A smell-proof bag is a great way to start. These bags are great to keep all of your stash essentials in one place.
A smell proof not only protects the smell of your weed, but the smell of your tools too. Your grinder is dusted with kief from all different types of strains, and your one hitter may also still be stained with the essence of your last hit.
A smell-proof bag is wonderful to take to a concert, especially one with many compartments, this way you can go to your event with your party favors.
At Ivy Hall we have smell-proof bags with and without a lock. An aspect many cannabis enthusiasts appreciate is discretion, having a quality smell-proof bag can allow you to be lowkey while feeling equipped to continue any adventure you take on.
Bong and Pipe Cleaning Supplies
Cleaning supplies are needed because you do not want your smoke buddies hitting a dirty bong or bowl. This is because mold and bacteria grow in a glass piece that can make you more vulnerable to respiratory conditions which is not an ideal mix for being a stoner.
You can buy pre-mixed cleaners such as Formula 420. For those who want a classic clean, using coarse kosher salt and Isopropyl alcohol is a great mix to help work out the gunk out of your glass piece. Pipe cleaners and Q-tips are also essential items to have in your cannabis stash kit. These items help you access the nooks and crannies of your glass piece so you can get a completely clean and fresh bowl to enjoy some tasty freshies.
Featured Product: Formula 420 Cleaner
Formula 420 is lauded as one of the best cleaning supplies for cannabis accessories. It helps get glass pieces nice and clean just as clear as the day you first bought it. The Formula 420 brand prides itself on being a cleaner that eliminates the need for soaking and shaking. Its exclusive AbrasivAction Technology helps clean and deodorize your glass in a few seconds. Formula 420 is great for consistent cleaning. If you do have more buildup in your bong or bowl, it is good to soak for a while too.
Ivy Hall has a vast variety of top stash essentials for every stoner. It is lovely to walk into a place where you can buy weed and accessories in one place. Ivy Hall believes customer service starts with convenience, it is this philosophy that keeps our guests returning to buy their favorite products, with their favorite accessories within arms reach.
One Hitters
A one-hitter is a nifty tool not many consider to have in their stash essentials. There are moments you’re not going to have time to roll a joint, sometimes the joint is just too small to fit in between your fingertips. A one-hitter is the perfect tool to remedy this situation.
You can stuff some ground bud into the small spot in the front and get a few hits to get the buzz going. If you have a small bit of a blunt or joint left, you can unroll and place it in the one hitter or place the whole rolled bit in there and chief on it without burning your fingers.
The one-hitter is the multi-use tool of the stash kit. As with any glass piece, you have to be ready to clean it. In order to keep our one-hitter ready for those on-the-spot situations, we have to keep it nice and clean with some good glass cleaner.
Blazy Susan Cones, Elements, and Ivy Hall Rolling Papers
When it comes to rolling papers, having a pack that comes with filter tips is great. Filter tips in a paper pack so you can roll with or without a tip. Our Ivy Hall rolling papers have filter tips so you can roll yourself a nice full-bodied joint without catching any scooby snack or loose weed bits.
I love the Blazy Susan cones because they come in 11/4 regular sizes and 53mm shorty sizes. I enjoy the shorties mostly because they are suitable for quick smokes and are the perfect size to pack into a Dog Walker Tin to bring some smokes on the go with me.
Elements are great papers to have with you to roll with. They are smooth and thin and burn evenly. Their magnetic packaging makes it small and compact to fit into any compartment of your stash bag. You can free roll with these without a filter tip, they do have packs that have filter tips too.
Lighters and Matches
There is a song from 2001 that goes, “I got 25 lighters on my dresser, yessir!” by Lil Keke. This quote is the spark that pulls the smoke session together. A stash kit is incomplete without a lighter. I believe in having multiple lighters in multiple compartments, including the car center console, stash bag, and of course, your pockets! A clipper lighter is a great type of lighter to have in your stash because it serves as a lighter and a poking device to pack a cone or tamp around your bowl.
Try to cycle out your lighters in between storage locations so you don’t use all the fluid in one. Your stash kit must always have multiple lighters. No stoner wants to experience that heart-sinking moment of not being able to spark the blunt.
Another foolproof way to ensure you have a spark to get blazing is to always have some handy dandy matches! Matches are great in general because there is no fuel needed, just a good strike. They may not be the most dependable in the wind, but it is an alternative, as long as you can get the weed burning, all is well.
Benefits of One-Stop Cannabis Shopping at Ivy Hall
A satisfying shopping experience is when you can find all of the items you need in one spot. It can be frustrating having to go to different spots to find the rolling paper brand you like. Our goal at Ivy Hall is not to have you go on a scavenger hunt to find an accessory you need for your stash kit.
We have an awesome team of budtenders and store leadership who listen to the needs of the guests and are privy to what our customers enjoy adding to their orders to complete their stash essentials.
Shop for Your Stash Essentials at Any Ivy Hall
You can figure out your stash essentials by trying out different cannabis accessories at our stores. When it comes to your stash essentials, you want items that are good quality and known to be dependable every time you use them. One tip on organizing your cannabis toolkit for longevity is to take an inventory every so often of what you have in your weed bag. Take advantage of our discounts during our Early Bird and Last Call 10% off sales to get some discounted accessories to keep your stash bag full.
Selecting stash essentials depends on your smoking habits. When it comes to grinder sizes, folks who may like to roll their joints in one setting may want a bigger one to grind higher volumes of weed. If you like to pack bowls, a smaller grinder would be perfect for you.
I also suggest buying accessories in bulk and keeping it in your stash box, this way you will not have to keep refilling your papers every week or so. RAW Papers and Blazy Susans are great brands that offer bulk options for their products.
Another way to choose the right stash essentials is to ask our friendly budtenders about items they cannot start their smoke session without. You would be surprised which accessories you might be overlooking if you are unsure how to use them. Ask our team members their thoughts on our selection.
As a stoner it is easy to forget items sometimes. When you have your products in one place you don’t have to worry about forgetting anything. Come and find all of your stash essentials at any of the Ivy Hall Dispensary locations across Illinois.
