My most recent order from bull city hasn't arrived yet and I'm already working on my next flavors list. Seems like i should probably wait a bit before pulling the trigger on an order til I'm absolutely sure, but i just keep finding new recipes i want to try.
How do you stop yourself? Or do you just have a giant pile of flavors
Really glad i made this post, thanks for all the replies
You can't stop. It's called alltheflavors.com not someoftheflavors.com
I have over 50 concentrates, but can only make like 55 ATF recipes... must have more!
I feel your pain. I went with like 30 of the most popular/used flavors. Throw them into one of those "what can I make" things and only like 8 recipes pop up with any decent amount of reviews and rankings, and almost all those have strawberry, which doesn't work for me. It's frustrating. I try to run it again without my strawberry flavors, and the top results have like 3 reviews.
Coming up on 700 flavors myself... The hunt for flavors never ends.
Is there a way to be more organized about what flavors i want to get for my next order? I feel like every time i place my order, i find new recipes and wish i could add flavors.
Really curious how you organize 700 flavors. I just ordered a couple of those acrylic nail polish shelves for my measly collection, but i don't have the wall space to have 10 sets of those shelves going
/u/modivin has a good system and the earlier you start using it the better (if he doesn't come along and explain it I'll try;)
Ι don't have room for nail polish racks so I had to make due with drawers. That led to looking for a specific flavor for 10 minutes because I had to pick up every single bottle to read the labels, because I have over 300 flavors currently.
I ended up with a system that relies on bottles with numbered stickers on them and a database of my flavors on my PC with a field for assigning each unique number to the respective flavor. The location number format is DxCxx where D is the drawer number and C is the color of the sticker so D1Y23 means Drawer 1, Yellow 23. When I need to find f.e. TFA Vanilla Swirl, which has the code D1O33 I go to Drawer No1 and look for the Orange sticker with the number 33. This made looking for flavors a matter of seconds.
I use separators to organize the drawers by brand. They look like this. I also use this app to keep track of my recipes and flavors, including current volume in stock for each flavor and location number. Each flavor sheet looks like this. You can see the location number near the bottom.
Talk to me on discord if you have questions.
The nail polish shelves and stands and stuff are nice if you have somewhere to put them. My problem is I don't really have anywhere to put them. I've resorted to plastic tubs designated to specific brands. TFA in one, FLV and FA in one, FW, CAP and INW in another, then one last one for everything else. It works for the most part, but can get kind of cumbersome when I'm looking for one specific flavor in a tub of 80
I have a set of closetmaid cupboards I slapped together and a series of cheap shallow baskets.
I organize by flavor type (blueberries with blueberries, caramels with caramel) though many prefer alphabetical.
Insofar as prioritizing what you're going to buy you can buy toward recipes, buy toward what you want to build into a recipe, or pick up flavors that fill gaps in your arsenal. I would suggest keeping a wishlist going, maybe with notes as to why you want each flavor.
My SO helps me keeping it in check.
"Why the fuck do you need more flavours! You said you had enough for a year the last time you ordered"
-"I didn't say that, and it doesn't work like that. I want to make these other recipes and I need more flavours for them."
"Well, make the recipes you can make now and then when your out of flavours, get new ones!"
-"I told you, it doesn't work like that."
"Yes it does! You want to sleep in the shed tonight?"
-"Okay honey, I'll get them another time".
See? Works like a charm.
I reeeeally lucked out that my girl quit smoking through vaping, actually her idea that created the monster, and has stuck by me through over 800. Helps she can name a dessert & (usually) get a pretty good version to start any time :)
Yeah thats the counterpoint to 'mixing your own is so much cheaper than commercial juice'. Any hobby I get involved in I seem to obsess over and want to get all the things. I started mixing in September and currently have 126 concentrates, which isn't a ton but my collection is probably a bit more bloated than it needs to be. Although I have a few stinkers (mostly from my 1st and second order during the inital flavor ban discussions) I try to fully research anything I'm thinking of purchasing.
The first step is I always keep a revolving list on Bull City (or wherever you like), adding to it things I want to use to create my own mixes as well as some ingredients for other mixers recipes. I will let my list bloat up to around 40 or so before I start looking to pare it down. To combat this I try to look at what recipes I want to try and get the ingredients only if 1- I have some of the list already and 2- will be using those flavors in more that that particular recipe. Beyond that I also look at what I'm picking to use for originals and also try to make sure its versitile for the most part (check our flavor reviews here as well as the noted episodes on a flavor you're interested in to figure out realistic vs candied, creamy vs dry ect).
At this point I've been working on a list for a few weeks and have got it down to around 15 or so concentrates. Now I take a look at my most used flavors and re-up where I need it. Nothing worse than making your purchase and then realizing that lemonade or what not that you always use is almost out. With all this, I only end up ordering once a month, maybe longer.
I have the same problem. Keep finding recipes I want to try. Problem is I don't stop myself. My last Bull City order had 40 new flavors. I'm up to 270 now
I started out with DIY approx. a year ago and am near 500 flavors right now. Not what I had expected when I started. There are always new and intriguing recipes to try, but I also find myself searching for “that“ perfect flavor, the one that will blow my mind, which may not even exist, haha.
As for storage, I bought 3 office cabinets with 9 drawers each, drawer dividers (cuttable to size) and I also organize in flavor groups such as creams, custards, vanillas, candies, bananas, etc. I had them arranged by manufacturer in the beginning, but it got tiresome looking through all CAP flavors to find one single flavor. Organizing by flavor groups saves me a lot of time.
I have to admit, I do have all of my flavors on ATF, but I don‘t use it to manage the amount of each flavor, which is going to be my next problem. I foresee that in my future.
Good luck and stay safe.
Although I have nowhere near the amount of concentrates grouping them by flavor type has saved me a bunch of headache when time to mix. I have 2 medium sized plastic bins and inside those are my flavors inside ziplocks, berries, creams, tobaccos, modifiers (crust, biscuit, AP, coolant ect) as well as 3 bags of their individual recipes (my wifes adv as well as my 2 go to mixes).
I used to have everything broken down even further (cheesecakes, apple pie, dark berries, candied fruit ect) but it made more sense to me to just do a general grouping, plus putting everything back/away was a lot easier.
Somehow I am able to control myself. You have no idea how many times I buy flavors and then after a day or two think on what to order next. If you let me order with no limitations, I could possibly get one of everything and it might still not be enough
It is like a hobby to me, a hobby where I spend a lot of time, energy and money but in the end sometimes the results are not satisfying to me
I feel the pain. i just started two weeks ago and am up to 64 flavors. But i dont feel bad about it because im buying flavors i need to mix recipes from proven well established mixers. I havent mixed a recipe i havent liked yet. I have zero plan on ever making my own recipes. There is probably 40 more flavors i'll want and then i'll pretty much be able to mix any recipe i want to. i currently have 16 different recipes mixed up. i switch between flav all day. but i mainly vape the rootbeer float one and the nana cream one the most. recently i bought the concentrates for the cannoli be one clone that got posted on the diy or die fb group. i dont regret it at all. off the mix i can tell its going ot be amazing. but i think it'll come down to self control. even though its still cheaper for me thus far to spend like this. there will come a point were im just buying obscure flavors and thats when i'll stop buying.
It takes a long time to settle in. For me it was about finding my genuine all day vapes, currently I have 3 mixes I rotate between heavily. And 3 more I vape occasionally so I don’t get bored or flavor-blind from the heavy rotation.
I mix 800ml mason jars of my favorites and they’re all so different it keeps me happy and stops me from constantly exploring new flavors and recipes.
But - I’m in my 7th year of DIY, and I def started out just going crazy trying every flavor under the sun.
Most people’s mixes are shit, don’t buy a bunch of flavors because they used some obscure lemon you don’t have...the flavors that are commonly used and tried and true are obvious on ELR or ATF, like Flavor express lemon or juicy lemon or lemon meringue for example....Don’t order a lemon from Russia because some idiot made a recipe with it. I have about 100 flavors and it’s WAAAAAY more than needed, just buy the right 100 or so and you’re good. Not to mention more and more flavor houses keep popping up churning out more and more useless options so it’s literally a never ending cycle if you let it be. Hope this helps.
How do you feel about liquid barn? I ask because of the ban I was going to invest heard there but was good. Crap nic=crap juice they say
Not OP but liquid barn is fine for nic, vg and pg, suspect for flavors (outside one shots, general consensus are their flavors are passable but better options are out there). I dont have a big selection of theirs though, I only have 3 of their flavors- snickerdoodle, fresh cream and vanilla ice cream. The snickerdoodle and fresh cream were a throw in to get free shipping and IMO not really much to write home about. The vanilla ice cream I bought from BCF, heard it was good and its pretty legit.
Liquid Barn is amazing and their customer service is always great! Best Nic on the market imo...I’ve literally tried them all...some love nude nicotine but I get a off flavor from their nic, maybe just me but LB is by far the best.
I’ve been doing this since October, and I have 400 plus flavors, and worse than that, I have backups of flavors I really enjoy. Before it got away from me, I started a database with notes on every flavor, as well as the amount I have. Then a wall of shelves, color coded tabs, broken down by flavor profiles, and shelves allotted to said colors for ease of locating them. Trust me, you should find a manageable way to store them that works for you. I almost always have an order on the way, and flavors in carts at three of my favorite vendors. I clicked on your post, half amused, half curious, wondering if others were as deeply enmeshed in the diy world of vaping. Good luck. Have fun. Vape happy✌️
Haha yeeeeah I would buy flavors and immediately be working on a list of more flavors like you. When I hit my 100th flavor I decided to not buy anymore until I use each one at least once. However I’m close to breaking that self promise and buying another 15 flavors 😬
Well, it's easy to avoid buying every flavpr. I don't buy shitty ones like strawberries, peaches/nectarines/mangos/etc, vanillas, black licorices... And I'm not into vaping baked goods, so that eliminates a bunch more. But I have dozens of cherry flavors. Dozens of lemons. Dozens of booze. Dozens of tobaccos. Dozens of florals. And then there's the various other fruit flavors.