I know it sounds funny, but that's exactly what happened.
After almost three weeks of vaping and ordering almost everyday online, moving from pre-filled cartomizers to buying e-juice, I was determined I HAD to cut the costs and cut the high nicotine juice I have lest I go broke on PVs.
My first "real" e-cigarette starter kit had come in the mail the day before
(before then, I'd started vaping Premium e-cigarettes I bought at a local tobacco store), and even buying my own juice and reusing cartomizers was getting expensive. Now that my new ePower by SmokTech had come 
I was vaping up a storm 
and wanted to preserve my liquids. [BTW, I'd purchased it from Brent of Hoosier E-Cigarette Supply ---- I highly recommend him, great customer service and prices].
When I decide it's time to do something, I'm determined to do it right then and there. So yesterday, I went out in my town to buy some Propylene Gycol and Vegetable Glycerin.
First, I tried my grocery store in the baking section - hoping to find VG ----- NOPE. I asked the pharmacist in the store if she carried PG, but she said no to that also.
Next, I went to my usual CVS. My usual CVS is rather small and they had nothing there.
I'd read at least one post here where someone mentioned buying PG at CVS, so I drove across town to our other CVS, newer and bigger. Talked to the pharmacist there...........no PG or VG, but he suggested I go to a specific hardware store in town since they carried so much baking and canning stuff....I never told anyone why I was looking for these unusual items, so I chuckled at the thought that he thought I'd wanted it for canning or gourmet baking from scratch! Trust me - those things are not high on my list of things I do (in fact, I never do either!).
Since that hardware store was way across town, I decided to try a few more places before I went back that way.
Another (smaller, but more eclectic) grocery store that I thought might at least have VG in it's baking supplies....................NOPE.
A GNC health food store was next to the grocery, so I thought I'd give them a try. When I asked the woman working there, she got a rather strange look on her face as if I were requesting ...... or crack!
Next, I stopped at a new, rather large Rite Aid pharmacy, and went straight to the pharmacist again.
This time, he told me he was sure they didn't carry VG but that they did carry PG in the form of Miralax.......a laxative.
He walked me over, reviewed the label and told me it was 100% PG.
I wasn't in the market for a laxative and it was a good thing I looked at the label because it was PEG, not PG. So glad I didn't buy that and spend half the night ..........well, you know where!!!
Last shot was the hardware store, but like the sign said ---- it was a hardware store and they carried tons of the "hardware" for canning and baking, but no PG or VG.
By that time it was pouring rain and rush hour and since we don't have Walmart, Target or Michael's (other stores I've read here carry them) in my town, I didn't want to get on the freeways to go to the towns that have these stores.
So, home I came - empty handed.
BUT AT LEAST I WASN'T "SMOKING" a laxative all night! Scary that the pharmacist got those chemicals mixed up - but at least he isn't the guy who fills my prescriptions!
It's a new day, so I'm off to Walmart and Michael's and God only knows where else. If anyone has any suggestions of where to go, please let me know.
Thanks!
After almost three weeks of vaping and ordering almost everyday online, moving from pre-filled cartomizers to buying e-juice, I was determined I HAD to cut the costs and cut the high nicotine juice I have lest I go broke on PVs.
My first "real" e-cigarette starter kit had come in the mail the day before
(before then, I'd started vaping Premium e-cigarettes I bought at a local tobacco store), and even buying my own juice and reusing cartomizers was getting expensive. Now that my new ePower by SmokTech had come I was vaping up a storm and wanted to preserve my liquids. [BTW, I'd purchased it from Brent of Hoosier E-Cigarette Supply ---- I highly recommend him, great customer service and prices].When I decide it's time to do something, I'm determined to do it right then and there. So yesterday, I went out in my town to buy some Propylene Gycol and Vegetable Glycerin.
First, I tried my grocery store in the baking section - hoping to find VG ----- NOPE. I asked the pharmacist in the store if she carried PG, but she said no to that also.
Next, I went to my usual CVS. My usual CVS is rather small and they had nothing there.
I'd read at least one post here where someone mentioned buying PG at CVS, so I drove across town to our other CVS, newer and bigger. Talked to the pharmacist there...........no PG or VG, but he suggested I go to a specific hardware store in town since they carried so much baking and canning stuff....I never told anyone why I was looking for these unusual items, so I chuckled at the thought that he thought I'd wanted it for canning or gourmet baking from scratch! Trust me - those things are not high on my list of things I do (in fact, I never do either!).
Since that hardware store was way across town, I decided to try a few more places before I went back that way.
Another (smaller, but more eclectic) grocery store that I thought might at least have VG in it's baking supplies....................NOPE.
A GNC health food store was next to the grocery, so I thought I'd give them a try. When I asked the woman working there, she got a rather strange look on her face as if I were requesting ...... or crack!
Next, I stopped at a new, rather large Rite Aid pharmacy, and went straight to the pharmacist again.
This time, he told me he was sure they didn't carry VG but that they did carry PG in the form of Miralax.......a laxative.
He walked me over, reviewed the label and told me it was 100% PG.I wasn't in the market for a laxative and it was a good thing I looked at the label because it was PEG, not PG. So glad I didn't buy that and spend half the night ..........well, you know where!!!
Last shot was the hardware store, but like the sign said ---- it was a hardware store and they carried tons of the "hardware" for canning and baking, but no PG or VG.
By that time it was pouring rain and rush hour and since we don't have Walmart, Target or Michael's (other stores I've read here carry them) in my town, I didn't want to get on the freeways to go to the towns that have these stores.
So, home I came - empty handed.
BUT AT LEAST I WASN'T "SMOKING" a laxative all night!
Scary that the pharmacist got those chemicals mixed up - but at least he isn't the guy who fills my prescriptions!It's a new day, so I'm off to Walmart and Michael's and God only knows where else. If anyone has any suggestions of where to go, please let me know.
Thanks!
