How much do you spend a week?
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For juice and attys/cartos I probably spend around $100 a month. I have noticed that attys last longer since I picked up my reo grand but I vape more juice so it pretty much evens out lol.
Buying bulk attys/cartos and large bottles of juice really helps keep the cost down imo.
Buying bulk attys/cartos and large bottles of juice really helps keep the cost down imo.
It depends. I have one dealer that sells for $1/ml, another dealer who sells for 60. I'm doing 2ml/day, so about $12.
t-rex (ego style) = Daily unless I'm lazy about the recharge cycles
510 = In a pinch,
808 = More practical for stealth vaping
Blu = Not so much since I burned one battery out
I stopped buying blanks since going drip tip, I'd estimate 1/week @ $1. Carto consumption went down, but 15 purchased so that's 1/week @ $2.00 per.
So a good $15/week. vs $57.75 for flaming fags
I am averaging about $139.00 a month for the past 10 months or so. That includes the most expensive first couple of months when I was ordering juice from everywhere to find the right one for me.
It also includes 4 back up Ego/Riva kits and a Rough Stack that I use occasionally.
I estimate I am now averaging about $100.00 a month for juice and cartomizers.
Sure beats the $360 plus a month that I would be spending on cigarettes.
It also includes 4 back up Ego/Riva kits and a Rough Stack that I use occasionally.
I estimate I am now averaging about $100.00 a month for juice and cartomizers.
Sure beats the $360 plus a month that I would be spending on cigarettes.
I was spending about $5 a day 30 days a month with analogs so anything less than $150 a month is a WIN!
I go through 2-3ml a day at $0.50/ml. On average I use 1 atty each month @ $9 per atty. On the high side, I spend about $13-14 a week.
Less than 5 cents a day on unflavored juice. An 80 cent carto, well, I don't know yet- I bought them a month ago and it's still like new.
So, maybe 50-75 cents a week?
So, maybe 50-75 cents a week?
I DIY juice, so say I go through 5mls per day that's approximately $3.59 per week. The last time I bought cartos all I paid for was shipping because I used my UKenVape points. That was sometime last month, I believe. The last time I bought atties was in February and I bought 10 for $57.58. I haven't lost one yet.
I'd say that for two people to vape, we vape on the cheap. We're at the point where we can go a couple of months before we need to really buy anything.
I'd say that for two people to vape, we vape on the cheap. We're at the point where we can go a couple of months before we need to really buy anything.
I was down to about $50.00 a month until I started playing around with mods and new juice. So I've upped the anti a bit average about $100.00 to 200.00 month depending on what comes out 
still far cheaper as I was spending at least $200 every 2 weeks- with the wife helping me that is.
Forgot you wanted some vendors. I like Madvapes.com for supplies and mod parts, vaporgalaxy.com for misc juice and supplies. Juicyvapor.com for juice, Pinkspotvapors.com for the wife's juices, and empiremod.com for drip shields and 901 LR atties. Hope that's what you needed. I use a ton more and try out other vendor on a regular basis. ECF also has a great listing of good vendors with recommendations from members here as well.
still far cheaper as I was spending at least $200 every 2 weeks- with the wife helping me that is.Forgot you wanted some vendors. I like Madvapes.com for supplies and mod parts, vaporgalaxy.com for misc juice and supplies. Juicyvapor.com for juice, Pinkspotvapors.com for the wife's juices, and empiremod.com for drip shields and 901 LR atties. Hope that's what you needed. I use a ton more and try out other vendor on a regular basis. ECF also has a great listing of good vendors with recommendations from members here as well.
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I'm in the uk and buy unflavoured e liquid from liberty flights for 33 pounds for 250 ml . That's 4 pounds per 30 ml that will last me a week . I'm averaging an atty every month at 4 pounds each when buying 5 at a time including p & p . So about 5 pounds a week or twenty pounds a month. I use a home made usb pass thru with 801 attys . In the last week i ordered some flavoured juice from uk-eliquid.Co.Uk . That set me back 18 pounds . Wont be making a habit of that but at 9 pounds a bottle including p & p i just wanted to try it .
Avidvapor for cisco 510s and 306s and recently picked up some bulk joye lr 510s from vaporkings (10 for $45).
For juice I use kickbassvapor, avejuice, freedomsmokesusa, tastyvapor and madvapes. KBV and avejuice are my favorite but order from the rest when they have a good sale.
My favorite combo is my reo grand with an aw imr 18650 using a cisco lr 1.5ohm 510 vaping bobas bounty or nutty uncle. Nothing cheap about this setup but its vaping heaven to me....
For most of my DIY it's OneStopDIYShop. I buy nic juice from either Gourmet Vapor or Box Elder Chemical Supply. I've been able to buy during 50% off sales, so it's really cheap.
My atties and cartos came from either Liberty-Flights or IkenVape.
My atties and cartos came from either Liberty-Flights or IkenVape.
It doesn't work that way for me...
I would be spending $10/ week if I just buy juice for my needs. For a good start at suppliers list go to the supplier list at the bottom of the first page of this forum. Of course, I like to experiment, so I have bought more juice than I need.
On the other hand, I buy back up batteries (I have use and replaced one) and atomizers. So I'd be spending a fortune on one order, then little for a while and cycle again and again.
For everything, I have made some mistakes that ended up in the trash (except for the batt). As an estimate, I'd say I spend about $ 40 a week (or about half what I used to with analogs only).
I would be spending $10/ week if I just buy juice for my needs. For a good start at suppliers list go to the supplier list at the bottom of the first page of this forum. Of course, I like to experiment, so I have bought more juice than I need.
On the other hand, I buy back up batteries (I have use and replaced one) and atomizers. So I'd be spending a fortune on one order, then little for a while and cycle again and again.
For everything, I have made some mistakes that ended up in the trash (except for the batt). As an estimate, I'd say I spend about $ 40 a week (or about half what I used to with analogs only).
I may spend 20 or 30 dollars a month on juice. If my hardware dealer has a special on hardware, then I will pick up something extra (and she has had a few excellent closeouts this month). All things considered, I do not spend a lot on vaping. Considering that I was dropping almos $5.00 a day on cigarettes, I think I am coming out ahead on the deal.
I'm not buying supplies like I did when I first started. Everything was experimental during the first 2-3 months of vaping. Once I got settled in, found the gear that worked for me and really focused on DIY, my costs went down considerably. I'll buy more supplies maybe once every other month or two. I haven't purchased atomizers since February and I just ordered about $22 worth of DIY stuff last month. I'm good to go for another 2-4 months now.
I did the math on this a while back. I went from $200+ per month on analogs to ~$43 per month on vaping. This is a "minimum", like, if I just did the least I could do & not explore new options, try new stuff, etc., .... just "this is what works for me, and if I *only* do this, what does it cost?" level.
A 30ml bottle of DIY juice at 25mg costs me about $7 to make. (probably less than that now, as I'm buying nicotine, which is the most expensive component, in 100mg / 500ml volumes, but I'll stick with the formula). I'll go through 3 of these (3ml per day, so 90ml per month). $21
In 4 weeks, if I stretch it, I can get by on one 5-pack of 2.0 ohm cartos. $9
I use box mods, or very sturdy other mods (like the P10)... but batteries eventually wear out. A two-pack of batts from dealextreme.com is around $6 for the sizes I use, so: $3 battery allowance.
Boxmod parts are super-duper cheap: I can make one for under $10. $12 if I use an LED. Parts allowance per month: $5
Then I figure in a "fudge" factor of five bucks. Covers shipping and incidentals like replacing lost drip tips... another $5.
Of course, I actually spend much more than that, since I just have to try a few of the new things, or get a new kit, or back-stock on stuff... but honestly, I haven't spent a penny on vaping in almost 2 months now; I've been living on my closet stockpile, saving cash for when my sister comes to visit next month. I could go without spending another penny for at least 6 months... but I always stockpile.
Anyway, you can see that my minimal cost is $43 per month. Let's call it per "4 week period". That would be $10.75 per week, at a minimum. More if you want to make it a 'hobby' and explore.
Beats the hell out of 50+ bucks a week for a carton, don't it?
A 30ml bottle of DIY juice at 25mg costs me about $7 to make. (probably less than that now, as I'm buying nicotine, which is the most expensive component, in 100mg / 500ml volumes, but I'll stick with the formula). I'll go through 3 of these (3ml per day, so 90ml per month). $21
In 4 weeks, if I stretch it, I can get by on one 5-pack of 2.0 ohm cartos. $9
I use box mods, or very sturdy other mods (like the P10)... but batteries eventually wear out. A two-pack of batts from dealextreme.com is around $6 for the sizes I use, so: $3 battery allowance.
Boxmod parts are super-duper cheap: I can make one for under $10. $12 if I use an LED. Parts allowance per month: $5
Then I figure in a "fudge" factor of five bucks. Covers shipping and incidentals like replacing lost drip tips... another $5.
Of course, I actually spend much more than that, since I just have to try a few of the new things, or get a new kit, or back-stock on stuff... but honestly, I haven't spent a penny on vaping in almost 2 months now; I've been living on my closet stockpile, saving cash for when my sister comes to visit next month. I could go without spending another penny for at least 6 months... but I always stockpile.
Anyway, you can see that my minimal cost is $43 per month. Let's call it per "4 week period". That would be $10.75 per week, at a minimum. More if you want to make it a 'hobby' and explore.
Beats the hell out of 50+ bucks a week for a carton, don't it?
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I'm at about $40 to 50 a month, down from $350 and up per month on the analogs.
I buy from Puresmoker and Johnson Creek only nowdays, use to buy from several more,
but have settled down to my all day, all week juice and lovin every day.
I buy from Puresmoker and Johnson Creek only nowdays, use to buy from several more,
but have settled down to my all day, all week juice and lovin every day.
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