.....For now I want to have a little fun. This post is not for people like me who are laying in a few bottles of nic in the freezer. I want to hear from those who are SERIOUSLY prepared. For example:
- Do you have a backup generator for the freezer where the nic is stashed?
- Have you bought vg,pg or nic in 55 gal. drums?
- How many unopened mods and miles of wire do you have?
- etc
- Do you have a backup generator for the freezer where the nic is stashed?
I do have a generator but don't need it for the liquid nic, it doesn't "spoil" like food. If it warms to room temperature for a day or two
(or five) it causes no real harm whatsoever.
- Have you bought vg,pg or nic in 55 gal. drums?
I don't stockpile VG or PG they're primarily used by
(and will be available through) industries other than vaping. However, because of price I do buy both in large quantities and consequentially have enough on-hand to last years. The one thing I
did -intentionally stockpile- was 100mg liquid nic, I have enough stored at -10F to meet my needs for life but will continue buying for as long as it remains legal/available to purchase and prices remain low
. When prices surge, I'll have no real need to buy more,
ever. I've bought/stored more than I'll need in order to help friends/family who can't afford this type of "extortion insurance" to protect themselves from a dishonest, corrupt government. I'm fortunate that I -can- afford to do so and happen to have a large industrial freezer sitting in my shop with ample freezer space. While I do enjoy helping/supplying others what
REALLY winds my clock is knowing every time I do it will
deny government the money it would have extorted from someone who really couldn't afford the loss...
Priceless. In this way I get to flip the government a finger of appreciation, a salute
of sorts that I feel it richly deserves.
- How many unopened mods and miles of wire do you have?
I didn't intentionally stockpile resistance wire because of FDA regulation, its primary use is in the electronics' industry where it'll remain -readily- available and relatively cheap even after 2018. However, last June I
did buy two 500' spools of 26ga wire while on-sale at half price
($14 ea shipped) so likely have enough on-hand to last my lifetime. I do have quite a few mods and attys but not because I set out to stockpile them, most are just what I've accumulated in the past few years of trying new/different stuff
(shinyitus). The only "real" stockpile purchase I've made for hardware/gear is four 75watt Picos for $100 shipped.
I just really like them, might even get a few more before it's said and done.
- etc
I know... you were really wanting to hear from prepping -
extremists- and up to this point it may not sound like I'm an avid, over the top, hard core vape survivalist but in truth
I am and have been since 2013. I just went about "prepping" for the vape-apocalypse in a different way, buying/storing stuff isn't the only viable solution to potential
(or de facto) bans and draconian taxes/fees/costs. I vape NETs and NET-hybrids exclusively
(they're why I started vaping) and fearing a ban, loss of product availability
(de facto ban) or cigarette level taxation I set out to learn how to make them and become totally "self-sufficient". There's a
Liquid Extraction from Tobacco sub-forum here on ECF that addresses exactly that and I've been a regular contributor since joining ECF, in fact
it's the very reason I joined. Over the past three years I've extracted flavor from hundreds of different cigar/pipe/whole leaf tobaccos in countless individual extractions experimenting with various methods/techniques/solvents. My goal was not only "self-sufficiency" but for variety, the ability to make at least a dozen -different- high quality NETs/hybrids that suit my personal taste,
I'm there and have been since last year. "Premium" NETs cost around $0.03 per ml to make and that includes the cost of liquid nic. Since I make my own I'm immune to; state e-liquid taxes, future on-line purchase bans/restrictions, the soon to be added high cost of FDA approval/compliance, potential problems with customs/interstate shipping, favorite flavor(s) suddenly disappearing from the market and etc... By learning how to make my own I
divorced government from the equation, kicking its ugly, corrupt, lying derrière to the curb where it belongs. Had I not feared the effects of government interference/involvement I never would have bothered. How's that for -
extreme- prepping?
Ours is big enough to run the whole house except for the electric furnace. We have natural gas back-up heating for that. Guess you could say we were preppers long before vaping entered our lives 
