It's really nice when someone tries my liquid, asks what liquid it is and i get to tell them that it's MY liquid and that i pay about $3 a week on my habit. wonderful.
i used to be a pack a day smoker. that's like $50 a week. that's $200 a month. that's a fucking car payment bros. a fucking car. what was i thinking?
I'm in the same boat dude feels fucking epic.
My wife and I were spending about $450 a month on smokes. Those days are over. I'm now in the DIY boat and loving it.
Fuck it, I'll expect the down votes.
I followed much the same path, and it was great. Problem really for me was exit strategy. Once I was fully independent of buying juice I took the same pride and satisfaction in making my own..... Lots and lots of it. I went so far as to wholesale my juice locally, while leveraging a small profit. It became overwhelming tbh. I came in the door to quit a habit, and now I'm perpetuating a new habit. I turned back to just mixing for myself, and as life became busier, I had less and less time to mix, even a large batch. Plus I was getting bored with my go to recipes. So I would end up back at the local shop on the other side of the exchange once again. At this point I've stopped mixing altogether even though it kills me to pay a 300% premium. I figured that would be my exit strategy, but I guess I've just come to terms with it.
Just my path - your mileage may vary.
I started to feel the same boredom with my mixes. Sometimes I just want something fully packaged and ready for consumption, something different than what I would put together, but also good juice of course. I kind of miss the retail experience but I still refuse to spend that kind of money on "premium". So I'm running an exchange with other mixers at r/mixersclub and I am stoked to have a number of juices coming my way to try, each and every month, from here on out, for pennies in supplies and stamps. And then if you find something you love you'll know exactly how to mix quantity for no money at all.
As the FDA cracks down harder, and more and more people turn to DIY to keep from smoking, there will be a lot more grateful self-starters thanking this sub for the help.
You could do worse in terms of shitposts, really. It's kinda' nice. It sure beats the usual.
With all these flavors, why choose salty?
Willful ignorance I guess. I just calculated how much my buddy will spend this year on smokes and showed it to him ($2000+), gave him my old Evod for free, he still won't go out to buy a bottle of 12 mg juice "cuz it's too expensive and twice the price of a pack."
I might have to make him a bottle just for him to realize himself.
I am in England and I was smoking marlboros to the tune of 25 a day or so. I quit that 4 months ago. So far, according to my phone app, I am £1300+ better off. IN 4 MONTHS!!!!! How I did that for so long...... The app says my habit was a little over £4000 ($5500) per year (top shelf cigarettes are eyewateringly expensive in England). Not only is that a car, but thats a pretty decent car, or a very nice motorcycle.
What is considered top shelf for cigarettes over there?
Marlboro and Camel are considered top shelf here or at least the most commonly smoked. But they aren't the highest priced cigs here.
I am actually American, I just live in England. So I mean the same thing you do. All the "name brands" are the same over here, it's only the cheap ones that are different. Marlboro are the most expensive usually with Camel just a bit less.
I'm sure there are more expensive brands here as well, but I am talking about normal, available at the gas station cigs.
Wait wait... tell me more about the part where you started making your own juice and didn't spent thousands on flavorings.. that's where you lost me, or where I spent thousands.
Thousands? You don't feel like that's a slight exaggeration? If not an exaggeration, a little excessive. That much flavor extract would last longer than I care to calculate. You can pick up 40+ different flavors to toy with for ~$100. Last week I picked up 4 gallons of VG, 500ml Nude Nicotine Nic, 54 flavors from the flavor apprentice, 30 syringes, 100 5ml bottles, 50 60ml bottles, 30 30ml bottles, 200 pipettes, nitrate gloves and goggles for a little under $400. I can provide recipts, can you show me where you spent 'thousands' on just flavoring when you started?
I got a little obsessed.. 3 trips to medicine flower, too many 4 ounce bottles of other PG free flavorings. As well as almost any PG free flavoring I could get my hands on from wizard labs. Tried every sweetener from NN, and all of the other stock solutions. I went ahead and bought 360 30ml, 80 60ml and 64 120ml bottles.
I meant it more as a joke, one that isn't a joke at all.. I've got the receipts and debt to back it up. I did plan on selling juice, but that really just gave me an excuse to buy that 'one last thing' over and over again.
I went through the exact same stages. I have not had an analog for 3 years and I've saved thousands of dollars. Vaping probably saved my life. I smoked a pack a day for 15 years, and if vaping hadn't come along, years from now I would have ended up with cancer, emphysema, heart/ lung disease or COPD. The FDA should really pull their heads out of their asses, this technology has staggering potential to save lives and improve public health. It's frustrating to see that agency be constantly manipulated by the tobacco lobby.... Please ensure you vote to keep this life saving tech in the hands of the people.
I'm doing the same thing, just placed my first order for DIY liquid, practicing making my first coils. the other day I bought two packs and it cost me $14 for two days of nicotine, I also spend $200 a month or more on cigarettes but I never felt how pricey it was until I started vaping and realized it's a total ripoff.
I was a pack a day smoker also. Now im in the same boat. I do my own builds and diy my juice. Soo much cheaper and i feel so much better, too! I got really lucky when i started though. A friend of mine tried vaping in the past and decided it wasnt for him and quit. I had been window shopping for a decient direct lung setup and told him. He then gave me all his gear. Americlone Fuhatten mech tube / Dark Horse RDA 2 batteries and a charger. I quit smoking that same day and havent looked back.
About a month later i started saving up to buy an IPV5 and Smok TF-RTA G2. With batteries it was going to run me 80-100 bucks depending on where i got it. That same friend needed the a/c compressor on his truck replaced. He bought me the setup as payment for working on his truck. Basically if it wasn't for him i would probably still be smoking.
Got a liter of unflavored for $17 in June and it's still 3/4 full. If I want to treat myself I can buy a bottle of flavoring and put a couple squirts in, which is enough and makes the flavored juice last forever instead of two days.
As so many others I'm sure, that's my exact story. Just got into making juice, and it's fantastic! I don't go crazy with it (yet), but I've got 7 or 8 recipes that keep my thirst for variety satisfied. Spending a couple of dollars to make a bottle that would cost 20 in the store is so great, plus you get to feel like a mad scientist
THIS IS WHY THE TOBACCO COMPANIES ARE LOSING THEY MINDS! Think about 300 - 700 dollars a month times 52 weeks times MILLIONS of people - that BILLONS they lose. No wonder they are buying congress and the FDA.
Grats, but not the right place to post this.
Oh shut the fuck up would you.
How is this not the right place to post this?
Lots of posts about "making it" or "thanks for X" Seeing them a lot, best putting them in the new mixer's thread where it'll be welcome.