DIY is a great way to save a lot of money, and can be a lot of fun mixing things up, inventing flavors and making things just the way we want them. Experimenting, discovering new tastes and even the bad ones and failed attempts are all part of the fun. Buying all the ingredients and necessities isn't even all that expensive... err... is it?
However, DIY does entail quite a heavy investment in time, for sure. We all know that nearly every juice goes through some degree of transformation in taste over time, some more than others. In fact, some juices can have a complete 180° transformation from completely unvapable to great and vice versa. So, between the time we invest in researching flavors, recipes, brands, vendors, waiting for vapemail, mixing, organizing, various learning curves there is also the major time factor of STEEPING. By the time we get it all together, it could be weeks before we can come to conclusion about a certain ingredient, provider or recipe. In many cases, many, many weeks. And in the meantime, we need our daily (hourly) fixes. It literally could be months, if ever, and an increasing amount of $ in investments to discover that ONE magical juice that we want to vape all day long and everyday that would save us hundreds and maybe even thousands of $$ over buying retail juice.
I thought, maybe, you buy a little PG and VG and put some Nic together, and buy some flavorings and syringes and bottles... you whip things up, try a few things and voila you found a replacement for the $20/bottle juice you've spent $400 on the last several weeks. Hahahah! NO.
And what if something goes wrong? Consider what happened to me recently, when a 120ml bottle of bad Nic arrived at my door and I made severl hundred ml of juice out of it. By the time all was said and done, I had lost over $60 in Nic, ingredients, contaminated bottles and atomizers and about 4 weeks of time invested between the purchase process and finally being convinced that the entire batch was a disaster because of Bad Nic. In the meantime, I had to continually purchase retail juices, for my "fix" of course. It all adds up, and now over 6 weeks from starting DIY, I still don't have my daily DIY vape
By the time the new stuff arrives, the mixing, the experimenting, the tasting and the steeping assessments I need to make it could be another 6 weeks before I come to closer to what I want to achieve, and I am willing to bet that when that time does come around, there will be something new I need to chase.
In the end, I think that's the trouble with DIY. Most of us will probably be spend a lot of time chasing, and in the meantime actually spend more than we would otherwise spend if we just purchased retail juice. Well, there is fasttech, but then again that takes 2 weeks to arrive and when it arrives, it needs to steep for another 2 weeks ... what if you don't like it
Yup DIY does have a heavy front load of investment in money, but more significantly, time. Perhaps many of us will in fact get to a point where we will feel the returns on our investment.
Well, what the heck, it's still fun anyway, keeps us busy and out of trouble I guess.
However, DIY does entail quite a heavy investment in time, for sure. We all know that nearly every juice goes through some degree of transformation in taste over time, some more than others. In fact, some juices can have a complete 180° transformation from completely unvapable to great and vice versa. So, between the time we invest in researching flavors, recipes, brands, vendors, waiting for vapemail, mixing, organizing, various learning curves there is also the major time factor of STEEPING. By the time we get it all together, it could be weeks before we can come to conclusion about a certain ingredient, provider or recipe. In many cases, many, many weeks. And in the meantime, we need our daily (hourly) fixes. It literally could be months, if ever, and an increasing amount of $ in investments to discover that ONE magical juice that we want to vape all day long and everyday that would save us hundreds and maybe even thousands of $$ over buying retail juice.
I thought, maybe, you buy a little PG and VG and put some Nic together, and buy some flavorings and syringes and bottles... you whip things up, try a few things and voila you found a replacement for the $20/bottle juice you've spent $400 on the last several weeks. Hahahah! NO.
And what if something goes wrong? Consider what happened to me recently, when a 120ml bottle of bad Nic arrived at my door and I made severl hundred ml of juice out of it. By the time all was said and done, I had lost over $60 in Nic, ingredients, contaminated bottles and atomizers and about 4 weeks of time invested between the purchase process and finally being convinced that the entire batch was a disaster because of Bad Nic. In the meantime, I had to continually purchase retail juices, for my "fix" of course. It all adds up, and now over 6 weeks from starting DIY, I still don't have my daily DIY vape
By the time the new stuff arrives, the mixing, the experimenting, the tasting and the steeping assessments I need to make it could be another 6 weeks before I come to closer to what I want to achieve, and I am willing to bet that when that time does come around, there will be something new I need to chase. In the end, I think that's the trouble with DIY. Most of us will probably be spend a lot of time chasing, and in the meantime actually spend more than we would otherwise spend if we just purchased retail juice. Well, there is fasttech, but then again that takes 2 weeks to arrive and when it arrives, it needs to steep for another 2 weeks ... what if you don't like it
Yup DIY does have a heavy front load of investment in money, but more significantly, time. Perhaps many of us will in fact get to a point where we will feel the returns on our investment.
Well, what the heck, it's still fun anyway, keeps us busy and out of trouble I guess.
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,nothing sophisticated,a syringe and a bottle I marked with a sharpie,for measuring. So far my brews are to my liking,with the exception of Capellas green apple and espresso. Their are some flavors I have had from my favorite vendor Vape Dudes,that I know I will not be able to duplicate,but oh well
Happy vape trails
