Wondering what kind of tool kit or other set up you guys rock. I have a kid, so all of my diy supplies have to pack up and get put away when I'm not mixing.
So what's your's look like?
Rest in mini fridge
I have about 100 bottles and at the moment I have them all in three plastic bins just like these. One is for Capella flavors, one is for TFA and INW, and the other is for FW, FA, HS, FE and additives.
I've been looking into building or buying some nail polish racks like this or this.
How on earth did I end up with over 100 flavors? I'm just getting started with DIY lol.
I have a wall rack I found on amazon and some dedicated shelving below it (no kids or pets in the house).
Your set up looks really cool. I love the wall rack and the wooden rack for TFA flavors. You made it yourself? It looks like something I could ask my boyfriend to make for me haha...
I'd love to get something similar, and and a wall rack would be really handy. I have a dog in the house, but my dog is so small he couldn't possibly reach it.
Somehow your rack led me to discovering lipstick and fingernail polish displays (which are an awesome solution), but that then led me to this:
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And I now want badly. Is a Pelican case that you can pluck 1x1 inch cubes out and custom arrange stuff.
Yeah most of the those wall racks were designed for nail polish bottles. The specific one I bought is here.
ziploc bags of flavor bottles, inside sterilite containers like this (or larger) from target or walmart
I've got all my smaller (<30ml) bottles in a plastic sectioned organizer I picked up at target or somewhere similar. Larger bottles get organized by size on my bookshelf o' vape stuff, which is getting overcrowded very quickly. I'm thinking of getting a small chest of drawers from ikea and labeling the caps with stickers so I can easily grab what i need looking from the top down, instead of shuffling bottles around on a shelf.
Dunno if Ikea stock the Helmer Drawer unit in the US - each drawer is tall enough to take 85mm bottles (vertically) but you'll probably want to find some drawer dividers to stop your bottles sliding around/over.
I have a wood box I bought off of Amazon. It was used for storing Champagne and would hold three bottles with wooden separators and a wood lid. I keep all my vaping stuff in it except my mixing base and that's in the freezer. I also have a plastic bag full of bottles and stuff of that nature.
I use part of a kitchen cupboard.
It's a mess of bottles, I need to get a nail polish or spice display instead.
I bought a 2 shelf clear tackle box from Wal Mart for 4 dollars. It's one of those use it once and toss it sort of things. I ripped the two folding shelves out because they were useless and took up space. Now it fits around 105 bottles in the bottom part, syringes, 240ml bottles, empty 30ml bottles if you lay those on top of the other bottles.
You really should invest in one, it's not the greatest thing out there, but it's better than a cupboard, which is what I used as well.
I only have around 20 flavors at the moment, so my storage requirements are quite low, but I just got an order in from BCV that is going to change the way I do things I think. For now I'm using a sterilite container similar to /u/bobbysavage with everything hanging out in there with a sealed baggie of disposable pipettes.
I have the feeling that over the next few months I'm going to switch to a sterilite container for the 4oz or larger bottles, and some kind of organizer for 1oz dropper bottles (that are refilled out of the larger bottles in the closet).
http://imgur.com/a/YH9ZW
Simple and compact.
That's pretty cool. What's that the bottles are stuck in?
Craft foam. Got it at Walmart in their crafts section. Only needs a small trimming to fit those Ziploc brand totes. Then I drilled one inch holes with a paddle bit, about an inch deep. Then alphabetized.
The best thing about my setup is the gasket inside the lids. Very little smell escapes, so I tuck everything away in my closet.
I keep all my bulk flavors in the spare beer fridge in the back of the house. The 30ml or less are in a basket. I have a small end table with a drawer on top that contains the basket, VG, PG, supplies and mixed juices. Nic is in the freezer.
I would like to do something to organize the small bottles a little better, occasionally I have trouble finding something or buy a second bottle because I didn't realize I already had it.
I use these nifty things and sort by Brand for each tray and then I keep similar type flavors in the same compartment. I can't imagine using a box or anything anymore. All you have to do with these is spin the trays around until you find your flavor. Plus each tray can be removed making it easy to store or move