I'm in about the same place. I am in the red a bit but I DIY my juice so it is evening out pretty quick. As long as the evic VT I just ordered is my last mod purchase for awhile I should be able to break even by year end. I'll probably get a white subox to go with my black one and an extra subtank in black and white when they come out but that won't set me too far back.
Let's be honest, smoking cigarettes is far cheaper than vaping!
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I'm in about the same place. I am in the red a bit but I DIY my juice so it is evening out pretty quick. As long as the evic VT I just ordered is my last mod purchase for awhile I should be able to break even by year end. I'll probably get a white subox to go with my black one and an extra subtank in black and white when they come out but that won't set me too far back.
I swear, some of you folks act like you're gonna be graded either by how much you spend, or how little. Who cares? Spend it if you got it, or go cheap (like I do!) if you don't! That seems fairly simple to me. I buy what I can afford, and not one bit more.
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Same here! I always took those banners as being more about how many days it's been since someone smoked. Something to not only show that person how successful they've been, but also new people who are just getting into vaping. It's kind of like the chips they give out in AA for how long you've been sober.
My last three mods were purely impulse buys. I got the MVP Pro 3.0 because I thought it looked pretty in gold. I ordered the Subox in white because I wanted the white Subtank Mini. And I ordered the evic-VT because I thought that the white with the blue racing stripe would look really nice matched up with the white Subtank Mini with the blue o-rings. The clincher with the evic-VT was finding how small it was, and because it had temperature control. If it didn't come with temp control, I wouldn't have bought it. Right now the one mod that I have that gets the least amount of use the the MVP 3 Pro. I may just end up PIF'ing in the near future.
50% of our grade comes from how much we spend and 50% comes from the test at the end of the course.
It's not the spending but it is the toys. For the techie types like myself it is a cultural thing, you get used to buying new tech toys and sharing them with your friends and playing with your purchases and talking too much about them. It isn't meant to be bragging or boasting it is just part of the experience. It's the same way with new phones, tablets, stereo's etc.. boys and their toys.
Yeah I ended up ordering it for the temp control as well, I didn't have anything with that feature and wanted to play around and see if it was something I was interested in. I got the yellow though because I don't have anything that looks like that so it adds a little flavor to the collection. If Kangertech did a yellow subtank I'd be all over it though.
50% of our grade comes from how much we spend and 50% comes from the test at the end of the course.
It's not the spending but it is the toys. For the techie types like myself it is a cultural thing, you get used to buying new tech toys and sharing them with your friends and playing with your purchases and talking too much about them. It isn't meant to be bragging or boasting it is just part of the experience. It's the same way with new phones, tablets, stereo's etc.. boys and their toys.
Nah,
It's pass/fail.
All the work in between is scratch paper.
Doesn't matter how messy or clean it is. Doesn't matter how much or little it shows.
The end result is all that matters.
50% of our grade comes from how much we spend and 50% comes from the test at the end of the course.
It's not the spending but it is the toys. For the techie types like myself it is a cultural thing, you get used to buying new tech toys and sharing them with your friends and playing with your purchases and talking too much about them. It isn't meant to be bragging or boasting it is just part of the experience. It's the same way with new phones, tablets, stereo's etc.. boys and their toys.
I love tech toys!!! When I first got my new laptop, I swear I took that thing everywhere! Now I just leave it connected to all the other toys on my desk (keyboard, mouse, monitor for dual screens).
Now I want a tablet, so I really can take it everywhere, and not have to discomboobulate my whole desktop. I'm just constantly amazed at the number of silly things people will stress over. I know I'm infamous around here for calling Provaris too expensive, but in my budget, they are -- but if someone has the wherewithal to buy a half dozen of 'em, go for it! Enjoy that American craftsmanship! If your bank acct or charge card isn't screaming in pain, what's to worry about? If it IS screaming in pain, then you might have a problem, and I don't mean vaping!
Same goes for this sort of competition over decreasing nic levels. I never knew that was a requirement, and don't have any plans to do so, though I might try lowering it in the winter to see if that will help my cold hands and feet -- even so, next spring, pretty sure I'll be back to 10mg.
Andria
I love tech toys!!! When I first got my new laptop, I swear I took that thing everywhere! Now I just leave it connected to all the other toys on my desk (keyboard, mouse, monitor for dual screens).
I'm just constantly amazed at the number of silly things people will stress over. I know I'm infamous around here for calling Provaris too expensive, but in my budget, they are -- but if someone has the wherewithal to buy a half dozen of 'em, go for it! Enjoy that American craftsmanship! If your bank acct or charge card isn't screaming in pain, what's to worry about? If it IS screaming in pain, then you might have a problem, and I don't mean vaping!
Same goes for this sort of competition over decreasing nic levels. I never knew that was a requirement, and don't have any plans to do so, though I might try lowering it in the winter to see if that will help my cold hands and feet -- even so, next spring, pretty sure I'll be back to 10mg.
Andria
Agreed on all accounts. For me the Provari is more like buying a Ferrari, even if I could afford it I would rather spend my money on 6 mid level cars. I like proven quality but will take quantity over luxury.
That is true, as long as I quit smoking nothing else matters. A year ago I never would have imagined that I'd consider vaping a hobby but the hobby side helped keep my mind occupied so that I didn't smoke. Having something to imitate smoking helped but having something to occupy my mind and time was just as important on my road.
My wife says vape toys keep my hands and mind busy so she's 100% on board. Every other time I quit smoking I was miserable and made sure everyone around me was to. Long term non-smoking for me would have almost certainly lengthened my live but shortened others. And always ended in failure. With vaping I can do as much or as little as I feel like/have time for. Somedays its alot and somedays its filling tanks and thats it.
Then there is the part thats hard to say without hurting peoples feelings. I'm not poor. I'm not rich by any means but I work hard and I have a buck or two. And I enjoy buying toys. And I don't feel bad about it. And when I get bored with something (fairly quickly) I vape it forward so nothing goes to waste.
I've lived in my own head for alot of years and know it to be a bad neighborhood which you should not go into at night or alone. And I know that when the building vape toys part goes away I will lose interest. At that ponit I will be a non-smoker and a non-vaper. But I worry about what comes after. I may go completely clean or I may relapse. My goal is to use my interest to get as much distance as possible between me and the smokes.
So I think people that spend as much as me are great. People who spend more are great. People who spend less are great.
Well I guess this has to be said if I am to be completely honest. I am not saving anything at all by vaping - the reason being I never bought my own smokes, my hubby did. Now I am buying my own vape stuff since he refuses to switch. So to be perfectly honest and above board what appears in my signature in the shape of monetary savings relates to my husband rather than myself.
BUT... and this is a big BUT - the health benefits are all mine! He still stinks and is confined to his study with the door closed if he wants to smoke in the house,
Now I am buying my own vape stuff since he refuses to switch. So to be perfectly honest and above board what appears in my signature in the shape of monetary savings relates to my husband rather than myself.BUT... and this is a big BUT - the health benefits are all mine!
He still stinks and is confined to his study with the door closed if he wants to smoke in the house, 
In my latter days of regular smoking, I was spending about $40 per month rolling my own cigarettes. I am confident that I can get vaping down to about the same or lower cost, as long as my hardware lasts.
In a year or so I should have a good data set, including amortized cost of the hardware. But I think that DIY liquid mixing will allow me to do it for $40 or $50 a month and not feel deprived.
In a year or so I should have a good data set, including amortized cost of the hardware. But I think that DIY liquid mixing will allow me to do it for $40 or $50 a month and not feel deprived.
DIY you can get it down to next to nothing. A one time investment in flavors and PG/VG and you are set for a long time. I buy some nicotine solution or PG/VG once every three months or so and vape for free the rest of the time. I bought about $100.00 in flavors about 6 months ago and still have about half the bottle of flavor in most of them.
I'm off to a good start with the DIY, have made a lot of basic flavors and am starting to get a little more crafty/gourmet with it. The problem is that I have been spending over $100 per month (still quite a bit less than I would be spending buying cigarettes by the pack), acquiring the batteries, devices, tanks, bottles, even a graduated cylinder. So, I have to limit vape spending to just essential supplies (wicking material, VG every few months, a flavoring or at most two a month) to get it down in the vicinity of RYO cigarettes.
I couldn't disagree more. The only reason I started vaping was to save money. I'm still using much of the same equipment I started with almost 2 years ago and I rarely DIY liquid, and I still estimate my cost at $2/day or less. A pack of cigs round these parts is $7.
I guess I could see that happening, just losing interest and quitting entirely... but a relapse after that could be a relapse to vaping instead of smoking, so not nearly as dangerous -- or addictive! I learned for myself though, when I was ill last summer... if I don't vape, I'll smoke... so I don't seriously ever see quitting entirely in my own future -- even if it became nothing but routine maintenance, so be it... maintaining non-smoking matters to me, as long as there are humans I love in my life -- guess if I became completely solitary, no husband, no family, it wouldn't matter so much to me, being non-odorous, and I'd have nothing much to live for anyway. Even so... I sure don't miss the mess of smoking; I can wear white garments and not end up looking like I wallowed in an ashtray!
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