How do y'all feel about firepits?

I love fire, so I love fire pits.
I take a shower when I come in after I've been around a fire.

We have a gas one because I'm a start and finish type fire watcher and I don't always want to stay until the fire is out

Doesn't the smoke keep the bugs away? We always used to light "smudge pots" to keep the skeeters away and thought it worked...

We bought a gas firepit at Home Depot a few years back. I love it. I like that it's easy, want to sit outside for half an hour, no big deal. No lighting or waiting for it to be out.

We have on and I love it. We technically aren't supposed to have one unless it is being used to cook, so we always have marshmallows near by lol Ok with the kiddo!

We typically only use it when we are trimming trees though. We just trimmed a huge oak, so we have a ton of wood that is drying out for fires

We own one (bought during Covid) and love it! The smokeless feature is a bit of a misnomer because it is not 100% smoke free but darn close. Two things we have found to be important are ensuring it is set up in a way for the airflow to be correct, and using really dry wood. Once it gets going, the smoke should dissipate for the most part

We have one that’s sitting out in our backyard rusting away. We thought we would like it and use it because we have so many branches and twigs in the backyard. Unfortunately, our yard, although tiny, is over 3/4 trees. There really isn’t a safe place to use it without setting the whole lot on fire. Besides, the few times that we did use it, I could not stand the smoke smell. I hate it when our neighbors use theirs because our houses are so close together if there’s a window open the smell permeates my house.

Mosquitoes and the neighbor's pit bull keep me from enjoying our fire pit. 🙁

I hate them. My next door neighbor has one right by my fence and eveytime they lit it I had to run through my house shutting windows to keep the smoke out. Thankfully they moved this year and the new neighbors who moved in have never lit it!

I don’t care for them. When we have fires at the beach or when we go camping, I don’t like the smoke and how you smell like the smoke afterwards. SO likes them. He would like one in our backyard. I haven’t said no, but he hasn’t bought one yet. He is happy right now with his fancy BBQ. 😆

We had a portable one at our old house snd a built in one here. We used it a lot when we first moved but can only use when there isn’t wind as we live on a canyon. With wild fire danger we are extremely careful. We shower after we use it as we like the fire but not smelling afterwards. We still have some wood left from the previous owners after almost 8 years.

This is what we have and we love it. Totally changed me from not really liking fire pits to loving ours.

I bought myself a Solo Stove for Christmas and we’ve used it 4 times in the past 2 weeks. I LOVE it. Keep the wood below the top of the stove and it’s pretty much smokeless, unless there is a lot of wind. I love that we can sit all around it on our patio instead of on just one side if it was a regular fire pit.

I Love a fire pit. I have a gas one because the wood one was not an option. I have a townhome with a small yard, so we were too close to the house to have wood. I have a service that exchanges the tanks on my porch, so I no longer have to deal with going to the store and searching for the guy with the key.