Are you done stocking up?

[UncLeJunkLe]

De-oxit D100L (red colour) for cleaning contacts and De-oxit Gold for a layer on top to help conductivity.

So De-oxit Gold isn't just for gold-plated connections?

 

[bnrkwest]

It is getting difficult to get things that's for sure. It reminds me of the same thing with shipping cigarettes years ago. Just one day everything stopped. Back then I switched to vaping, this time no way out unless you want pods at the vape store or you have a nice collection of mods & tanks, squonkers to fall back on. It's crazy out there.

 

[bnrkwest]

IF I remember right (big if) the P67 and LP REOs all came out at or near the same time as the gold fire bar. The gold fire bar was designed to use flat tops. Earlier REOs with the silver metal pointed fire bar were designed for nipple tops.

Now me being me I had already been using the flat tops in the old REOs for years at that point as finding decent nipple top batteries had already become difficult.

EDIT: If I remember right Noalox is not to be used with the gold ones. You use a different thing. Will have to hunt down my tube later to remember what the stuff is.

Noalox is messy stuff and is part of the reason they used to tell you to take you REO apart and wash it in soapy water scrubbing it with a toothbrush (the old style metal REOs).

EDIT 2: It's Deoxit Gold you use on the gold bar REOs

Hmm I have to look and see if I have Deoxit Gold, I think mine is the regular kind.

 

[MLEJ]

It reminds me of the same thing with shipping cigarettes years ago.

Yeah. 3 cartons gone with the wind before i learned my lesson then. Not this time... The last vape-specific stuff i bought was ordered a week ahead of the new regulations' implementation date and at the seller's regional sorting facility the day before. Tax paid. Unless things get better for us (fat chance) what i've got is what i've got. And that's fine anyway as far as i'm concerned because this stocking up has already cost too much.

 

[bnrkwest]

Yes stocking costs add up, I have no idea what I have spent thru the years, but it is still way cheaper than smoking! I don't regret a thing We are trying to stock for our lifetime, pretty amazing feat actually

 

[bnrkwest]

I just took some Ahlusion Lemon Cake juice out of the freezer. Says best by 3/2020 so must be 2 yrs old. I let it thaw and sit for a day and it is still good Also vaping some Killer Kustard Lemon that is a year old, just sitting out no refrigerator or freezer, it's good. I am on a Lemon kick this week LOL So keeping juice for awhile seems to work pretty well.

 

[MLEJ]

Yes stocking costs add up, I have no idea what I have spent thru the years, but it is still way cheaper than smoking! I don't regret a thing We are trying to stock for our lifetime, pretty amazing feat actually

my principle life-goal right now is to live long enough to break even.

And i don't even have a stash close to as big as some of the folks here. "SuperFantasticVapes.com has Elemenopee tanks for only $9 -- ordered a couple dozen to add to the 50 in my stash." "MagicUnicornECigs has UltraFab 100W mods on clearance -- Only have 20 shrink wrapped ones in my stash, better grab some more." i feel unworthy of the appellation "vaper" sometimes.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

For me, as a heavy smoker, vaping has still proven to be MUCH cheaper despite my stocking up expenses. My stocking up expenditure equals roughly my expenditure of 1 year of smoking. My future expenses for vaping will be negligible assuming I buy nothing but necessary consumables.

Yes, the up-front expense sucks, but from this point forward that expense starts turning into savings, both savings over smoking and savings over vape supplies (because 99% of my stash is clearance-priced items). Hope that makes any sense.

 

[zoiDman]

For me, as a heavy smoker, vaping has still proven to be MUCH cheaper despite my stocking up expenses. My stocking up expenditure equals roughly my expenditure of 1 year of smoking. My future expenses for vaping will be negligible assuming I buy nothing but necessary consumables.

Yes, the up-front expense sucks, but from this point forward that expense starts turning into savings, both savings over smoking and savings over vape supplies (because 99% of my stash is clearance-priced items). Hope that makes any sense.

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[Z-Lee]

For me, as a heavy smoker, vaping has still proven to be MUCH cheaper despite my stocking up expenses. My stocking up expenditure equals roughly my expenditure of 1 year of smoking. My future expenses for vaping will be negligible assuming I buy nothing but necessary consumables.

Yes, the up-front expense sucks, but from this point forward that expense starts turning into savings, both savings over smoking and savings over vape supplies (because 99% of my stash is clearance-priced items). Hope that makes any sense.

Savings in health.

 

[rosesense]

For me, as a heavy smoker, vaping has still proven to be MUCH cheaper despite my stocking up expenses. My stocking up expenditure equals roughly my expenditure of 1 year of smoking. My future expenses for vaping will be negligible assuming I buy nothing but necessary consumables.

Yes, the up-front expense sucks, but from this point forward that expense starts turning into savings, both savings over smoking and savings over vape supplies (because 99% of my stash is clearance-priced items). Hope that makes any sense.

I was paying 130.00 month for generics when I quit smoking and I rarely spend 130 in any month on vaping so I figure I am ahead.

 

[Z-Lee]

I was paying 130.00 month for generics when I quit smoking and I rarely spend 130 in any month on vaping so I figure I am ahead.

Me too, with the huge exception of the last 2 months.

 

[hittman]

I was paying 130.00 month for generics when I quit smoking and I rarely spend 130 in any month on vaping so I figure I am ahead.

I spent way more than that in a month stocking up. When I found out about the ban I spent around 500 on dna mods one month.

 

[YoursTruli]

For me, as a heavy smoker, vaping has still proven to be MUCH cheaper despite my stocking up expenses. My stocking up expenditure equals roughly my expenditure of 1 year of smoking. My future expenses for vaping will be negligible assuming I buy nothing but necessary consumables.

Yes, the up-front expense sucks, but from this point forward that expense starts turning into savings, both savings over smoking and savings over vape supplies (because 99% of my stash is clearance-priced items). Hope that makes any sense.

Before now the last time I bought anything vape related was in 2016 so stocking up is really a good thing financially. Even now I have spent minimally just adding support to what I already had. I stuck with more of the same only getting a few mods/pod systems that used coils I had and of course more coils plus the matching rba/rdta.

 

[bnrkwest]

5 yrs smoking = $16,200
5 yrs stocking= no where near $16,200! LOL

This is cig cost in my area

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

I was paying 130.00 month for generics when I quit smoking and I rarely spend 130 in any month on vaping so I figure I am ahead.

I was spending $450-500 for generics. Generic meaning those off brands.

Speaking of generics, anyone remember when the only generic cigarettes available were those that were in the white and black packages just like the white and black groceries they used to sell in the store? I actually started smoking generics right before they started getting rid of those and stocking the "off-brands" instead.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

Before now the last time I bought anything vape related was in 2016

Same here.

 

[440BB]

Our stockpile cost almost exactly what we spent on cigarettes in 2010. Not expensive at all IMO.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

My smoking habit got so financially unbearable for me so I had to go RYO, and boy was that cheap. I remember being mesmerized by the fact that I always had money in the bank and in my pocket. IIRC, RYO was costing me only about $60 a month or something like that and I was still smoking the same amount. I used the buy those big bags of what was really pipe tobacco, but I couldn't take that anymore and switched to Top, but it was still really cheap. I could never smoke Drum RYO tobacco, it was so suffocating to me.

 

[bnrkwest]

Remember way back, I was a kid, a pack of cigs cost $.35? They are $9 in my area last I checked, maybe more. I remember saying I refuse to pay $9 for a pack of cigs, so it was hello vaping But those early cig a like were $100 for a kit, the atomizer and cart, 3 piece style, no battery life. So really prices are way cheaper than then.