I agree vaping can be expensive especially once you make it a hobby. I know people who vape as a hobby and have more mods and vape gear than they honestly need, but that's their choice and they can do what they want. For me, vaping wasn't just about saving money, a lot had to do with health concerns and just feeling better. The initial startup cost can be quite expensive, but once you stock all your supplies you should be able to recoup that money and start to see a savings within the first three months.
My advice to you is not to purchase cheap vape gear, do your research and buy gear that's gonna last, sure it's probably more expensive that other mods but it's probably gonna last a lot longer over time.
Me and my wife both smoked and would go thru almost two packs a day at $5.65 a pack. That's just over $4k a year for smoking. I started vaping last August and got my wife to start vaping last October. Now we both vape, juice costs $18.99 per 100ml's, we usually go thru about 250/300mls per month. Around $60 a month for juice, pretty close to $700 a year for juice, if I was to DIY I'm looking at cutting that cost substantially. We only use Reos Mods Reo Grands which are a little pricey for mods but they're built like tanks and will probably last forever. We have 4 mods two were $156 each and the other two were $170 each. So 4 mods at $676 and that included shipping. I own about 10 different rda's for my mods. Prices range from $12 to $90, I'd estimate that I've spent maybe $400 on rda's. So far, with 4 high end mods, monthly juice cost and 10 different atties to chose from at any time, my cost is up to $1776.00. We have two chargers, both nitecore (2 bay and a 4 bay) so maybe $35 for chargers. We have 10 batteries 6 AW/4 Sony's, so maybe $100 worth of batteries. We used rayon wick and bought a box of 500ft rayon, it will last between 5 and 7 years maybe more, it was $16. I paid $21 for kanthal got 300ft, enough to last about three years. We share supplies and expenses but even then if I was to compare all that we're still saving over 2k a year and both feel and look 10x better. Total expenses for vaping so far was $1948.00. That was my initial startup and my wife's startup. Granted there's a lot of things I've bought that I don't even need, but now I've got options, I could also still lower our cost by mixing my own juice and just purchasing DIY supplies. With smoking I had no options, we smoked Marlboro Smooths and nothing else, it was the same thing over and over. We spent over $4K a year smoking. Now we're both happy, we have bad ayuss mods and extra supplies to last us years and choose the flavor juice we want, yet still spent less than $2k our first year vaping. The rest of the money just goes into our vape budget.
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) The only good thing about my husband still smoking - is I now need to renew my efforts to get him vaping and then I can spend his money to get him a perfect set up. Tootle puffing doesn't suit him so I need to 'research' all the latest stuff (research of course means buying things to try). I have really missed vape mail..
in your Cheerios today. Anyways if you get 240ml of juice for $35 or you make your own for less, it still is cheaper on two fronts, time and money. With juice at $35 a bottle of 240ml that's .17 cents a ml. At 6ml a day that's 1.02/day. That's still better than .23 cents more you spend and the time it takes you to roll you're own.
