One remedy for shinyitus is paying close attention to the layer of dust forming on most of ones previous purchases. 
Does anyone else having trouble breaking even?
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There is a secret to achieving an earlier break even date..........
Be sure to include everything, and I mean everything in your calculations! Not on what you spend on vaping, but what you actually spent on smoking. It's not just the cigs! For example.........
I live in a fairly cold climate at least for 4 months of the year and did not smoke inside for the last 20 years. That calculates to putting on a winter coat an average of 20 times each and every day, a total of approximately 2,400 zips and 2,400 unzips. As I found, that tends to wear out zippers resulting in the cost of coat or zipper replacements. While not a substantial amount, an additional cost of smoking. Now, if you can come up with enough of these additional costs, and I have, you'll meet that break even date much sooner..........or justify another mod purchase.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll run out and get that early Christmas present I promised myself since I already hit my break even point!
Be sure to include everything, and I mean everything in your calculations! Not on what you spend on vaping, but what you actually spent on smoking. It's not just the cigs! For example.........
I live in a fairly cold climate at least for 4 months of the year and did not smoke inside for the last 20 years. That calculates to putting on a winter coat an average of 20 times each and every day, a total of approximately 2,400 zips and 2,400 unzips. As I found, that tends to wear out zippers resulting in the cost of coat or zipper replacements. While not a substantial amount, an additional cost of smoking. Now, if you can come up with enough of these additional costs, and I have, you'll meet that break even date much sooner..........or justify another mod purchase.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll run out and get that early Christmas present I promised myself since I already hit my break even point!
I have a couple spare spinners as backup and a provari...diy with no flavors...financially i am seeing sweet green filling my bank account unlike when i smoked.
Break even? What's that???
Actually, guess I will now that Arkansas has banned sales from on-line vendors
Actually, guess I will now that Arkansas has banned sales from on-line vendors
One remedy for shinyitus is paying close attention to the layer of dust forming on most of ones previous purchases.
Ummm yeah, that'll work...
First six months weren't cheap, leveling up in gear to where I am now. But now I spend almost nothing, building my own coils and DIY'ing my ejuice.
Smoking cost me about $8/day. Vaping costs me about 20 cents/day.
Smoking cost me about $8/day. Vaping costs me about 20 cents/day.
Ummm yeah, that'll work...
Works for me. Some years ago I came to the realization that "new stuff" is truly just the larval stage of what will one day mature into garbage. That's generally speaking; I do occasionally buy some new vaping gear.
No issues here, after 1 year vaping. I haven't actualy done the math. I know, I have spent less than $300 on Gear, for both me and wife, in the last year and no more than $80 a month on juice. I was spending MORE than $300 per month smoking, $6 per day or more. Even I can see that is at least a 60% savings. It's easy to save money if you avoid buying toys.
Don't know, don't care, may never. I know I've spent north of $1k this year on vape stuff and spent a few hundo last year on vape stuff. However, a good $200 was on DIY stuff for juice. Smoking ran me about $40 a month.
I say screw shinyitis....the money i am saving from not smoking doesn't go into more gear it goes into shortening my mortgage payoff date. I would much rather pay my house off early then have a shelf full of mods and stuff sitting around collecting dust.
Took me about a year to break even after going though the "I'm a collector" phase. Now I am way way ahead.
Amen to that!
Amen to that!
It took me a while to break even because I was constantly upgrading the first 6 months or so. I've leveled off the last few so I'm really starting to see savings. Of course, it doesn't hurt that I started when I was spending about $300 a month on smokes.
It's amazing the money I'm saving vaping instead of smoking. Vaping doesn't even really qualify as an expense anymore, aside from a bottle of VG and liquid nic every 2 or 3 months.
Dang, I used to spend about $280/month on cigs. Now that's money in my pocket.
Dang, I used to spend about $280/month on cigs. Now that's money in my pocket.
This is likely to be the case for me. Unlike cigarettes which are dirt cheap here, good wine is prohibitively expensive. A decent bottle is at least USD 10-15 and not snoking is definitely lowering my wine consumption. I used to go through maybe 4-5 bottles per week and now reduced to two, so that could be a bigger saving. That's at least 100 dollars/month!
Once I got off the whole "ooh shiny" train it wasn't long at all before I broke even.
What I used to spend on cigarettes for 2 days, I'm now spending on e-liquid for 2 weeks as I finally quit vaping too.
What I used to spend on cigarettes for 2 days, I'm now spending on e-liquid for 2 weeks as I finally quit vaping too.
I think it took about 3 months to break even, and I haven't gone over what I spent on stinkies since. I still like to buy new stuff now and then, lately has been more than usual... Probably because I'm spending more time here
He! Clearly I am not the only one who has over-spent. It may well taper off for me too. Just wish I could find something to replace at least some of my high-end juice consumption. It would also help as vermillion river is really tough to acquire in bulk (most vendors in Europe and Asia sell only 10ml bottles). The reason I really want the subbox is 1. Testing whether some of the more 'meh' flavours get better on sub (I found this to be the case in my brief interaction with the Ego One) and 2. Learning to rebuild coils on a tank which does both. I reckon this could save me a nice penny over the long run.
But I may well be kidding myself
But I may well be kidding myself
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