HA! I feel your pain brother. I currently have open carts on Amazon, Ecx, and MFS that I can’t seem to pull the trigger on. I did finally pop on the cart I had on Nic River.
It gets kinda pricey very quick doesn’t it? 
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Hah! Yes it does! I started off thinking, “Hey, I can do this for less than $100 and save a ton of money!” Now I’m looking at three carts, Amazon for the scale and stuff, Liquidbarn for nic and VG, glassbottleoutlet for bottles, and Bullcityflavors for my flavors, of which there are 28 flavors in that cart alone. Alltogether totalling over $200 and could easily spend MUCH more and I haven’t even ordered a thing yet. So much for saving money lol.
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Yep, the initial outlay of cash can be a little staggering but you gotta look all the way to the end of the tunnel. In the long run you’ll be saving tons of cash. As well as improving your health tremendously. At least that’s how I justify it to myself anyway 
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That works for me…It’s getting my wife on board that’s the tricky part. At the end of the day Vaping was supposed to save money and be healthier than smoking… I just keep telling her, “Well, I feel healthier” lol
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Good idea daath. Long time smoker, 6.5 year vaper, and never looked back. Scenic tax free state of Delaware. Love the ELR site, and after visiting MOST of the others, I think ELR is the best, hands down. Started dripping on a lowly EGO batt and atomizer (what a PITA), blew tons of cash on crappy equipment, but not many were vaping back in the “olden days”, so figured it out as I went along. Ironically probably one of my BEST setups, was a Provari 2.0 w./ a Phiniac XL nude tank with XL Boge cartos, and I still use that to this day. BEST equipment I’ve ever purchased. Got tired of buying cartos (still am) and atty’s, so moved over to rebuilding (it’s really not that hard). Had been vaping on the cheap from Mt. Baker Vapor, and got mega hooked on their French Toast, but had to kick them to the curb once they started PRE-steeping their juices, which meant when I received my beloved French Toast, it was very dark, and almost bitter (hits the trash can). Was intimidated by the metric ton of info, suggestions, and complete confusion regarding DIY mixing, but THAT’S over now hehe.
Rebuilding, DIY’ing, saving loads of cash every single day, put some clean cotton wicks in every day or two, and it costs me about 10 cents a day to chain vape, AND, I can vape whatever the hell I want. 
Loving life on my new fav. Steam Crave RDTA, with simple paralleled claptons. Nothing fancy, no need, just great tasting, vaping goodness.
Tenfifty, don’t sweat the details, as you made the BEST first step, by signing up on ELR. Soo many good people here, great recipies, honest feedback/reviews. Everyone’s tastes are different, so the other guy’s GREAT mix may not appeal to you, and vice versa. My personal favs (just my opinion) are Nude Nicotine for NIC, and Bull City flavors for ALL of my flavorings. I also get all of my PG and VG from Nude Nic as well. I’m not overly concerned about finding the cheapest PG/VG, or NIC, but I want quality, and I’ve never been let down. Bull City ships so fast it’s almost scary good. Nude Nic, not the fastest on shipping, but the quality to me, is some of the highest, and had no issues.
I think at this point I’ve got over 225 flavors, and it allows me to make almost every recipie here (not all), plus freely experiment. As usual try small, and buy big. Get a load of 10ml flavors, find what you like, then go crazy with the bigger bottles.
Last thing. When I started I was mixing by volume (ml and syringes), OMG, what was I thinking. Waay to time intensive, mess, cleanup, blehh. Got a scale, started mixing by weight, done, done, and done. Not looking back.
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You know, I wish one of these companies would just look at A Beginner's Guide To Making The Most Highly-Rated Recipes, and put together a bundle with the supplies and flavors, along with the recipes and sell the whole damn thing as a kit. Problem solved lol
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Thanks for your story and the suggestions!
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Tenfifty, once you get IN, and you want to do it the easy way (mixing by weight), one thing to keep in mind is most battery operated scales time out (shut off) after a certain amount of time (that sucks !!), and I’ve had this one and it plugs in, which eliminates any issues. Accurate to .01G, super easy to use…
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I’ll keep spammin’ until daath shuts me down. The only thing I buy from Amazon is the scale, and plastic bottles:
Another fav for bigger bottles is SKS:
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I have this one and am very happy with it
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Welcome aboard newcomers!..
gettin mighty busy round here 
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Welcome Tenfifty!
Even now after starting DIY I still have the issue of not pulling the trigger. I get my cart part way full and look and see I’m nearing $75-100 and panic. I think I have carts full on about 4 different sites at the moment.
Try this thread and Aubrey you can narrow down your first order to an acceptable level and make multiple great recipes. Good luck!
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Welcome City! Congrats on your first mix!
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The start up cost was daunting to me as well. My strategy was to never EVER spend more in one month than I had spent on smoking. I did go over a few times but compensated by cutting way back the next month. It’s a few weeks shy of when I bought my first mod and in the long run, I’ve probably saved a few hundred dollars. Now that I have all the necessary hardware though, I’m averaging about 50$ a month which includes maintaining supplies for what I know I like to make and a bit of experimenting.
If you can estimate how much you used to spend on smoking, set your budget for 2/3 of that. Then when you go a little over, (because you will) you can comfort yourself or your SO that it’s still cheaper than smoking.
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Good strategy!
I think my first order of flavors, PG, VG from Bull City, nic from NR and scales from Amazon cost me $98. In the end I was able to make that worth it with 2 batches of 120ml each. That saved me $20 on what I would have spent on store bought juice. And I was able to make a ton more than 240ml from my first order.
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Thank you. I have made 2 others since. I wish I would have picked diy up a
lot sooner. It is so relaxing and very rewarding when you taste your mix
and it already taste either the same or better then some of the juice you
paid way to much for. This community seems great so far. I can’t wait to
get to know so of you guys better.
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Hello everyone,
I was using the site to save the recipes for some time and seek some advice, and just now I realized that I never introduced myself.
I write from the island of Sardinia in Italy, and 've behind a past of 26 years of smoke.
I had tried to vape five years ago but has not involved me.
The last year my partner for my birthday gave me the plenty and the migthy by S & B, so I began to vaporize my weed and then suddenly I abandoned even 30-40 cigarettes a day … so I tried to get closer and try again an electronic cigarette.
A whole other thing to five years before, surely cuz the progress that there has been in this area!
I am completely reborn thanks to vaporize and vaping.
Very fond about rda’s and also got into DiY a lot since know how to cook quite well(I think cooking and make e-liqs are very similar in many respects)
I’m trying to create valid liquids that may be used as bases so as to be changed often so as not to excessively get bored of one in particular.
Guess that’s all,stay tuned ,see ya
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Hi I’m Danny from the uk decided to start doing my own ejuice glad to be here
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Floe and Danny, welcome to ELR!
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I don’t think that is ever a bad idea MizzZ. I started (with many shopping carts full, deleted, re-filled), then decided to go big or go home. My thoughts were even if the initial investment was more than I had thought, I figured as long as I had enough supplies, and good recipies (thanks daath), the SOONER I started mixing up good mixes, the SOONER I would start saving money. Just my .02.
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