Yep, while I know "steeping" is wrong the term seems to have stuck at this point, and it seems wrong in a pretty harmless way. Using "smoking" for vaping strikes me as less harmless. Tbh, with no disrespect for the name of this illustrious forum intended, I don't like the term "electronic cigarette" very much either. I think "vaporizer" is at least better (though a bit too generic.) I'm not in love with the term "vaping," but it too seems to have stuck, and my objections are mainly on aesthetic grounds, so not that important

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You're making me kind of glad I never got into NETs... I likely would have if they hadn't been pretty obscure when I started vaping, but by the time they were less so I had gotten into the habit of vaping non-tobacco flavors in general.
I'm sure DIY could be _really_ inexpensive, especially if you only wanted to make a few related recipes, but I've spent enough on flavors, many of which I won't entirely use up before they go off, that it's a bit pricier than it looks on paper, for me.
And I'm starting to experiment with the MF flavors, because I've had them in some premium juice that I really liked in the past. I picked up a lot of the 5 mil sizes at ecigexpress not very long ago, but they were already out of a few that were the ones I most wanted, and those are not exactly cheap to acquire (though I suspect they will make a lot of juice, as they're pretty concentrated.)
Still a lot cheaper than $12.00/30 milliliters though, and since most of the expense is in initial outlays it's not much of a disincentive to going through a fair amount of juice.