I wouldn't call it a lot... but I was buying both to mix with, and to begin my freezer stash in preparation for the FDA's Vapocalypse, and since it needs to be decanted into glass bottles, I'd buy a little nicotine, and one set of 30ml bottles, at a whack. I still like to keep nicotine in 30ml glass bottles, so that once opened, it can be used up before it gets too badly oxidized. Later, when I was buying those half-liter bottles of nicotine, I did store some in 60ml and even a couple of 100ml bottles in the freezer, but when I get to those for use, I'll decant them into 30ml bottles. But by buying small quantities of nicotine, I didn't have to buy so many bottles at a time; my budget could take a bit here and a bit there, but as I said... if I'd had to buy all this crap at one go, I'd never have started at all.
Andria