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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Great ideas, and thanks for the links! That scale is the one I have in my Amazon cart. I canceled my subscription to a eliquid monthly service which was right around $50 a month. I figured I could spend that same money every month on diy supplies and get way more bang for my buck. I’m about to narrow down the flavors on my first order, I’ll probably just order the 18 recommended flavors from A Beginner’s Guide To Making The Most Highly-Rated Recipes plus 2 to make it 20 even. Thanks everyone for all the suggestions and encouragement! I’ll keep you posted on my journey!
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Welcome to “the rabit home” as it has been described lol to all the new comers… We welcome you do tons of reading and we are all here to help… So I have been a member here for a few months and some of you know me already… I am a pretty active poster I love to get and give advice as much as possible but I noticed I never did formally introduce myself…
Born and raised in inner City Chicago illinois… Both of my parents were smokers and I joined the club very early. (not gonna do my whole story I promise to post it to the appropriate thread someday soon :)) anyway I still live in Illinois but South now close to springfield with my Fiance and my two beautiful children. Started vaping in 2012 a little after my son was diagnosed with asthma… There have been ups and downs but I havnt had an actual cig in 2 years now… DIY all the way and I can also vouch for the above scale as it is the same one I use. I also started mixing by volume first and when I made the switch back in November to a scale I was extremely happy and woundered how I did it for a year without one… Any way I won’t keep rambling welcome to the new members and keep asking questions of you havnt noticed by now we like to talk 
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Hee heewait… did i pass initiation?? lol
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You reached 200 posts before introducing yourself, that called for a welcome, lol, jk, I like your attitude! 
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Welcome and glad you joined.
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My first orderS weren’t very large (read expensive), maybe 40 or 50 bucks per order. However … I was receiving at least 1 (usually 2) orders a week for about 2 or 3 months. That’s how I kept it under my wife’s radar. I was in “Stealth Vape Order Mode”. And it worked … for a week or two anyway 
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Does anyone (daath aka Oz the Great and Powerful) know how many members there are?
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