I was going to make this post in the Milestones thread.....
..... but I thought screw it, 6 YEARS deserves it own fvcking thread!
I went scratching through my old emails a few days ago and found this.
This was the order for my very 1ST vape gear. Look at the date. 27/12/2011
An Ego-T starter kit and 3 juices (you had to specify the flavours on the comments) for 764 bucks. The kit itself looked like this:
(Photo for illustration, not my actual ones. They were chucked into the bin a long time ago. Just kidding.... I burned them
)The Ego-T kit arrived 2 days later, on 29/12/2011. I also had my very 1st vape on that day.
Thus........ (insert drum roll here) today the 29th of December 2017, I celebrate my 6th year of vaping.
I'm not going to bore anyone with all my hardware and juices and all from the last 6 years. What I am going to do is mention a few memories from my 1st year of vaping, basically the year 2012.
- The EGO T atomiser/mouthpiecetank was sh1t! And innovative design for its time yes, but it didn't work well and it leaked like a mother. The batteries though was solid and I used them throughout the whole year.
- There were not a lot of places to buy vape stuff from. Apart from bidorbuy there was maybe 3 of 4 online sites that you could purchase from. Mostly people selling from their houses. Of course Twisp was there (I passed) and then there was eCiggies . They have been around for quite a while now and even their website looks exactly as it did back then. (I'm not knocking their website, I have bought a sh1tload of stuff from them the 1st couple of years. And I felt they deserved a shout out. Also, they are NOT sponsoring this thread)
- The EGO T atomiser/mouthpiecetank system soon gave way to Boge LR cartomisers (ya'all newbies don't know nuthin about those, do ya?) They had to be imported nogal from the US of A, but they were the sh1t at the time. Everyone (overseas) were using them. Weird little things but they worked a treat. Google them.
- The next BIG THING for that year was clearomisers. CE4 and CE5, they were all the rage. Top coil and bottom coil. Fillable with almost 1.5 - 2ml of juice, that was like christmas. eCiggies started selling them round the middle to end of that year and I feel like those was the game changers, the blueprint for all RTA's and RDA'a to come. The CE4 was the 1st time I felt, vaping is easy, vaping is nice.
- Liqua juices. Man I went through A LOT of bottles of those. Think I tried the whole range, except the tobaccos. I could never vape tobacco juices. Green Apple and Cherry were my favourites. Vanilla was good too.
- Totally Wicked's Cherry Mentol. eCiggies once again. I bought a fair few bottles of those when they were in stock. Imported from the UK and/or US. At that stage that was my absolute favourite juice ever. Ever! Strong cherry with a strong menthol kick right in the middle. And at 18mg it kicked you, make no mistake. Man I feel like a bottle of that right now.
- Hangsen and Dekang juices. Ya'all newbies don't even know aboot those! China juices. They were really most of what ordinary vapers on a budget vaped. Cheap and readily available. Go Google them.
- Drippers, coil building and self built "mods". Only the lunatics vaped on these things! Us mere mortals were to scared or to uninformed to even try or ask about building your own coils. Drippers (vapers that dripped and built their own stuff) were like the darkish underground of vaping. You knew of them but you didn't really ask much. Leave me to my EGO kits, I'm fine thanks. They posted videos of juice shooting off home built coils like firework and coils glowing so bright you could use them as a torch to light up the night sky. We didn't ask, we just stared....
Anyhow, I'm rambling (not Rob Fisher's, my own).
Here's to 7 years of vaping. And maybe 8, 9, 10 etc....
I will close with some advice. Just some things I have found out for myself.
1) You don't need to buy EVERTHING. If you can afford it, go for it. But as soon as you buy one atty, one mod or the next best juice, there will be another better, greater, must have thing in a week's time. Use and love what you have. If it vapes, its good.
2) Vape every juice you buy. Even if you don't like it and it makes you vomit pieces of intestines, vape it! Vaping juice you do not like, only makes the juices you do like, taste so much better.
McJuicy out
- The EGO T atomiser/mouthpiecetank was sh1t! And innovative design for its time yes, but it didn't work well and it leaked like a mother. The batteries though was solid and I used them throughout the whole year.
- There were not a lot of places to buy vape stuff from. Apart from bidorbuy there was maybe 3 of 4 online sites that you could purchase from. Mostly people selling from their houses. Of course Twisp was there (I passed) and then there was eCiggies . They have been around for quite a while now and even their website looks exactly as it did back then. (I'm not knocking their website, I have bought a sh1tload of stuff from them the 1st couple of years. And I felt they deserved a shout out. Also, they are NOT sponsoring this thread)
- The EGO T atomiser/mouthpiecetank system soon gave way to Boge LR cartomisers (ya'all newbies don't know nuthin about those, do ya?) They had to be imported nogal from the US of A, but they were the sh1t at the time. Everyone (overseas) were using them. Weird little things but they worked a treat. Google them.
- The next BIG THING for that year was clearomisers. CE4 and CE5, they were all the rage. Top coil and bottom coil. Fillable with almost 1.5 - 2ml of juice, that was like christmas. eCiggies started selling them round the middle to end of that year and I feel like those was the game changers, the blueprint for all RTA's and RDA'a to come. The CE4 was the 1st time I felt, vaping is easy, vaping is nice.
- Liqua juices. Man I went through A LOT of bottles of those. Think I tried the whole range, except the tobaccos. I could never vape tobacco juices. Green Apple and Cherry were my favourites. Vanilla was good too.
- Totally Wicked's Cherry Mentol. eCiggies once again. I bought a fair few bottles of those when they were in stock. Imported from the UK and/or US. At that stage that was my absolute favourite juice ever. Ever! Strong cherry with a strong menthol kick right in the middle. And at 18mg it kicked you, make no mistake. Man I feel like a bottle of that right now.
- Hangsen and Dekang juices. Ya'all newbies don't even know aboot those! China juices. They were really most of what ordinary vapers on a budget vaped. Cheap and readily available. Go Google them.
- Drippers, coil building and self built "mods". Only the lunatics vaped on these things! Us mere mortals were to scared or to uninformed to even try or ask about building your own coils. Drippers (vapers that dripped and built their own stuff) were like the darkish underground of vaping. You knew of them but you didn't really ask much. Leave me to my EGO kits, I'm fine thanks. They posted videos of juice shooting off home built coils like firework and coils glowing so bright you could use them as a torch to light up the night sky. We didn't ask, we just stared....
Anyhow, I'm rambling (not Rob Fisher's, my own).
Here's to 7 years of vaping. And maybe 8, 9, 10 etc....
I will close with some advice. Just some things I have found out for myself.
1) You don't need to buy EVERTHING. If you can afford it, go for it. But as soon as you buy one atty, one mod or the next best juice, there will be another better, greater, must have thing in a week's time. Use and love what you have. If it vapes, its good.
2) Vape every juice you buy. Even if you don't like it and it makes you vomit pieces of intestines, vape it! Vaping juice you do not like, only makes the juices you do like, taste so much better.
McJuicy out
