DIY supplies?

LarryYo · Sep 30, 2015

I have been digging through the forum for a few days now looking for a good place to get some DIY supplies wanting to give it a shot! if anyone can direct me to a better thread that would be great. or maybe drop some links that would be amazing! thanks in advance!!!

Sir2fyablyNutz · Sep 30, 2015

Clark Kent · Sep 30, 2015

I just ordered from Heartland Vapes for the first time and they have great prices and Quality Nic. Free shipping over $75, I bought some flavors I know I like in 4 oz. sizes for a little more than a lot of places sell for 10-30 ml. I would definitley recommend them. $44 for a liter of 100mg nic that was nice clear and oderless. I think this is about the 4th or 5th place I ordered diy stuff from and they quickly became my favorite.

LarryYo · Sep 30, 2015

thanks @Sir2fyablyNutz and @Clark Kent for the info im excited to give this a shot!

retired1 · Sep 30, 2015

Moved to DIY E-Liquid

suburbiansam · Oct 1, 2015

there are lots of great places. read around about places like ecigxpress, myfreedomsmokes, bullcityvapor, and wizardlabs. you will find many great reviews about these places. check out the forum for help on mixing, steeping, and new flavor ideas. good luck!

LarryYo · Oct 1, 2015

Im excited to get started on this new adventure! Thanks @suburbiansam

sofarsogood · Oct 2, 2015

LarryYo said:
Im excited to get started on this new adventure! Thanks @suburbiansam

For what it's worth I'm ahead of you by a few days. I got a $100 order two days ago from MFS including their 1000ml bottle of nic plus 1000 ml bottles of PG and VG some misc supplies and one flavor. Yesterday I made 30 ml of liquid and started vaping it immediately. It doesn't taste as good as the Mach10 flavor I was buying from ITC vapes but I'm vaping on it and I'm sure I'll do better. My perception is the MFS nic might be a tiny bit more harsh than what I have been vaping but I'm already used to it. I'm going to be easy to please with flavors. My goal is to mostly vape on the most bland flavoring I can tolerate so I don't vape more than necessary.

After mixing the first batch I now realize is that saving money is not the most important reason for me to be doing this even though the savings are enourmous. I work and at my hourly rate it makes more economic sense to go on buying my 240 ml bottles from ITC which have cost me 88 cents a day. According to my juice calculator, with my current supplies, it's going to cost about 12 cents a day not counting mixing supplies which works out to the absurdly low amount of about $45 a year (cigarettes were costing me $3000 a year). If you have a taste for expensive commercial juices then learning to make your own probably makes a lot of sense.

The best thing abut DIY so far is I literally sleep better knowing I can vape for the next 4 1/2 years on the bottle of nic in the freezer regardless of the government.

There is one more thing. I have two part time employees, husband and wife, who smoke, which costs them about $5000 a year. If I could get them vaping it would be bigger than any raise I could ever give them. Now that I can make juice for next to nothing I'm going to see if I can get them started vaping.

Clark Kent · Oct 2, 2015

sofarsogood said:
There is one more thing. I have two part time employees, husband and wife, who smoke, which costs them about $5000 a year. If I could get them vaping it would be bigger than any raise I could ever give them. Now that I can make juice for next to nothing I'm going to see if I can get them started vaping.

Good Luck with that, While its worth a try, I have had a little success in converting a few but It all depends if they really want to quit or not. At least you can say you tried to help though.

sofarsogood · Oct 2, 2015

Clark Kent said:
Good Luck with that, While its worth a try, I have had a little success in converting a few but It all depends if they really want to quit or not. At least you can say you tried to help though.

Of course you are right. I have leverage as the employer but one of my hard rules is never complicate the work relationship with outside matters. I try to let work be an escape from everything else. Still, their lives would be so improved, just for the money they saved. It bums me to pay them and have to think about how much of that hard earned money is wasted on smoking. Okay, how about I provide free vaping supplies at work and see what they do? I could say, properly, that I prefer they not smoke when I'm paying them (I will never fire someone for being a smoker) so I'm providing free vaping supplies at work and hoping they will use them. That's reasonable, it might work, and I'm not meddling with matters outside of work. Then I say they can't take company vaping supplies home, a bit of reverse psychology.

Clark Kent · Oct 2, 2015

Let them try it and if they think is a possibility, either give them or help them out with a set up they can take home and use. something basic like a istick or subox. I think in order to do a complete switch they would need it at work and home. See what flavors they seem to like and the you have work gift ideas. In the end it does not cost that much and not only would they be saving money, not mention there own heath benifit. If they don't stick with it make sure before you give them it that it comes back so someone can give it a go.

sofarsogood · Oct 2, 2015

Clark Kent said:
Let them try it and if they think is a possibility, either give them or help them out with a set up they can take home and use. something basic like a istick or subox. I think in order to do a complete switch they would need it at work and home. See what flavors they seem to like and the you have work gift ideas. In the end it does not cost that much and not only would they be saving money, not mention there own heath benifit. If they don't stick with it make sure before you give them it that it comes back so someone can give it a go.

I'm not going to buy their at home stuff. If we get to that point the effort was a success. They will have the money to spend like drunken sailors if they want to. Like I said earlier, I'm careful to NOT meddle in an employees life outside of work. They need to know that work is a refuge from the rest of life. I want them to be certain I'm only interested in their welfare as employees. And if they buy their own stuff for at home they are more likely to use it. I'm willing to give them pointers and suggestions about how to spend their money if they ask. The good day is when they show up with their own vape stuff and don't want to use the free stuff any more.

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