OK, so how much money have you spent so far???

[Rick.45cal]

I don't even want to comment in this thread... I started with a prodigy V3, it was an allright mod, then I fell in love with GG's it's all downhill from there... I don't regret one red cent I have spent!!!! Maybe one day I will break even, probably not while Imeo keeps coming out with new and ingenious creations. I can't help myself, being an artist, I appreciate Imeo's artwork! Long live GG's (hopefully I will live longer now too)

That little sig line down there, really should be somewhere in the negative LOL

 

[thegrindre]

That little sig line down there, really should be somewhere in the negative LOL

Yeah, it's too bad that there isn't a line for what we've spent on PV stuff.

 

[Skypea]

My start up costs were $89.42. Theoretically I have enough juice and supplies to last me 2 months.
(thanks to this forum I was led in a cost saving direction)
I spent $100 a month on smoking analogs.

 

[thegrindre]

Hi Skypea. You're a smart one to watch the spending that can take place. I believe you've even beaten Snoopy at it.
Way to go! And, congrats on quitting the nasty things.

 

[Twinturbo4486]

I've only been vaping for 11 days but let's see:

Ego Kit - 50.00
Extra Carts - 5.00 (Never even used them, only drip)
Liberty Flights Menthol 30ML - 16.00
Esmokeclub Menthol 30ML & 10ML - 15.00
KBV - Hummingbird Nectar 15ML (Fly juice) - 11.00
Drip Tip - 3.00

Total: $100

 

[Skypea]

Hi Skypea. You're a smart one to watch the spending that can take place. I believe you've even beaten Snoopy at it.
Way to go! And, congrats on quitting the nasty things.

Dang if I'd have known about Snoopy, I could have left out the extra bottles and really given out a beating. (insert canned laughter here...to appease my attempt at humor)

Thanks for the congrats! and the same to you. 44 days! That really gives me some encouragement. Hugs, Sky

 

[six]

I've never tried to even consider totaling up what I've spent. I just did a quick inventory of what's on my desk, though. -

My desk has a couple of hundred bucks worth of batteries, about $250 worth of juice, about $250 worth of PVs, and about $160 worth of cartos and attys. There's maybe another $60 or $80 worth of incidentals like drip tips, syringes, mixing bottles etc. I don't think anything on my desk but maybe a bottle or two of juice is older than mid-January of this year, and I have really no guess as to how much juice I've used nor how many cartos I've tossed or attys I've popped since then. I could easily call it pretty close to twelve hundred dollars spent in the last five months, I think.

And I have about $100 worth of stuff coming in the mail tomorrow plus I'm planning on re-stocking CE2s for my MAP tanks this week and will probably also stock a few boxes of dual coils since I'm buying cartos anyway, so that'll probably be another hundred bucks. ... and it looks like back woods brew is open again, so there goes another sixty five dollars... and madvapes might be listing a PV I want to own this week (hopefully that one will be an inexpensive item though)

So, what it comes down to is that I probably spend about the same amount of money I did on tobacco. Six bucks a day for a pack of smokes and a couple hundred or so two to four times a year for a nice box of cigars plus the occasional $75 or more for a single cigar.

The bright side is that if for some reason I had to stop spending money, I could probably vape four or so months on the supplies I have on hand. And, if I dug everything out of the junk drawer, I could probably go three months after that using juice I don't really care for and attys that are sub-par for one reason or another. Heck, if the power grid failed, I could go three weeks without being desperate to charge batteries (granted, there would be a whole lot of 3.7v days and far fewer 5.0v and 6.0v days, but that just means more dripping and MAP tank use and less dual coil enjoyment)

 

[phonedude]

I just realized I have kept every receipt from every order I have received. As well as from purchases I have made at the local smoke shop. Perhaps a spread sheet is in order so I won't have to keep guesstimating. A project of sorts.

I just ordered some new cartomizers which should pet me at $430 If my guesstimates are halfway accurate. Stay tuned.

(I have a feeling my guesstimate may be way off)

 

[hisfattness]

i've been vaping since febuary and with my original riva and my 6v mod i ordered plus the juices i'm at a total of ~$200. I've saved around $1,000. so even with getting a mod on top of my riva and trying out diffrent cartos I'm way ahead of the game. And i feel better physically.

 

[Hogwart]

I havespent way more than my sig says I've saved.

 

[M_FactorX19]

i have spent quite a bit (havent really keep up with it). i think most of it though was just trying to get all stocked up. the fear of not having something and running out really makes me nervous. it would be a lot easier if i had a brick and mortar store near by but i dont. so i like to have extras in case something happens. im at the point now where i would be good for a few months if for some reason i couldnt get anything so the buying has been greatly reduced.

 

[jsclmetrbl]

ok, heres a different one for ya, b4 i bought a dang thing i went to u tube and found a ton of great info, thanx to grimm green, doc vapor, and the shrek guy. total in three months:
1 KGO kit $45 (my one and only pv and dont mean to change)
10 smoketech clear dual coils (awesome and first try) used ones cleaned weekly and REUSED over and over.
200mls desert ship 24mg (lucky again liked it and was first purchase when ordering my kit at least the first 10mls)
about 100mls of various 10ml flavors most of which i like but i vape all, if its to bad i kill it with menthol
and thats it, oh and a tackle box. all together about $200-$250 for three months, take that joe camel.
should b good at $20 bucks a month. unless i find a good pt even that should fit into my budget without stretching but a little. vape on baby

 

[Haadkoe]

Hmm.

510-T starter kit $80, eGo-T 650mah starter kit $120, eGo 1000mah passthrough $35, 510-T LR atty $15, eGo LR atty $15, 510-t tank 5 pack $7, eGo-t tank 5 pack $7, Eclipse EQ $300.

So about $579 in hardware thus far.

Plus I buy two 10ml 5-packs of juice every two weeks at $45 per 5 pack to cover both myself and my gf. Think I'm up to about $315 in juice thus far. (Think I might want to find a cheaper juice supplier here in Canada, but I haven't looked so I don't know how these prices compare. lol)

So, at the moment, all-in I've spent roughly $895 and have been vaping for roughly 2 months.

Mind you, I was spending over $650 a month on analogs for myself and my gf, so as absurd as it sounds I'm still saving money compared to smoking... and I doubt I'll be buying many more PV's.

 

[thegrindre]

What I've found out is, if you can find juice for about $.50 a mil or less, your doing pretty well.
I buy a 10ml bottle for $4.25. That's pretty good, IMO. Larger bottles cost even less.
Once you find your perfect flavor(s), buy the bigger bottles of it.
You're really looking for a juice you can vape day in and day out and not get tired of it. This takes time to find, trust me.

It still appears that we, as a hole, are still right around the $250-$300 in the first month as to how much we're spending thru the converting process which, BTW, is about the same as we'd have spent on analogs.
Not bad...

Happy vaping,

 

[caspur]

So for the first month of vaping, I probably spent 100 dollars TOPS on hardware and juice.

Than I found out about the provari, tank mods, and a LOT of different juice suppliers.

I've been vaping for 3 months.

I've spent $3000 total, and maybe 1,500 in the last 2-3 weeks.

I need to stop.. im serious, it's like an addiction. I love buying and stocking up on stuff. I have 100's of different colors and styles of drip tips. I have a bulk of 500 steel boge 3.0 ohm cartomizers. I bought about 50 - cheap tanks, and 10 expensive ones.

I have a lavatube and a provari.

I have just about every dekang juice in 50 ml bottles, every BWB juice in 30 ml bottles, and I NEVER purchase a juice that's under 30ml.

I've also stocked up on 500 pipettes, 100 syringes, 20 microfiber cloths, and 30 different DIY flavors(tobacco/fruit/sweets/menthol drops) all in 30ml quantities. Than I have like 200 different types and sizes of empty bottles, and like 600 ml of PG/VG. 200ml of Unflavored Nicotine 48mg.

I think it's safe to say that, I have an addiction, and I'm done spending until I regain 3000 dollars.

 

[Dieseler]

Hmm never really kept track.
My most expensive purchase for me was my ss megalodon .

 

[TonyTT]

This question is not really intended for modders. I'm sure your expenses are thru the roof.
I'm really interested in the 'normal' ex-smoker and how it's saved you in tobacco expensive.

To be fare and honest, I'm sitting on about $225 or so for my first month. That's about $7.50 a day.
I bought extra attys, extra batteries, extra carts and a few bottles of juice the first two weeks into all this.
I should be good to go for a few months, now, I hope, which will bring my daily total down to within reason.
(3 months = $2.50 a day.)

How about you? Have you gone overboard or have you used common sense to quit tobacco??? What are your expenses so far?

Thanks for sharing,

I think I've spent 578$ in the last month to month in a half roughly...And I think it was very common sensical...I've stocked up on juice, stocked up on cartos, bought two 510 kits (one was a gift), and a provari...

 

[TonyTT]

So for the first month of vaping, I probably spent 100 dollars TOPS on hardware and juice.

Than I found out about the provari, tank mods, and a LOT of different juice suppliers.

I've been vaping for 3 months.

I've spent $3000 total, and maybe 1,500 in the last 2-3 weeks.

I need to stop.. im serious, it's like an addiction. I love buying and stocking up on stuff. I have 100's of different colors and styles of drip tips. I have a bulk of 500 steel boge 3.0 ohm cartomizers. I bought about 50 - cheap tanks, and 10 expensive ones.

I have a lavatube and a provari.

I have just about every dekang juice in 50 ml bottles, every BWB juice in 30 ml bottles, and I NEVER purchase a juice that's under 30ml.

I've also stocked up on 500 pipettes, 100 syringes, 20 microfiber cloths, and 30 different DIY flavors(tobacco/fruit/sweets/menthol drops) all in 30ml quantities. Than I have like 200 different types and sizes of empty bottles, and like 600 ml of PG/VG. 200ml of Unflavored Nicotine 48mg.

I think it's safe to say that, I have an addiction, and I'm done spending until I regain 3000 dollars.

Have you ever watched Extreme Couponing?... you sound like that....minus the coupons...

 

[kabonk]

last year I guesstimated and was thinking I saved like $2400 so this year I started a spreadsheet to track my spending so far I'm in the hole because I did a bulk purchase of boge cartos from boge tech and just ordered a vvpv from notcigs and I'm pretty sure I want a vv reo so there's another 200 I'm guess at the price sometime in the next month or so but I'm set for cartos and attys and nic base and pg/vg so my maintenance supplies are covered for the year. so besides the stray mod I buy I'm thinking I can stay around the $1000 mark which is a $3400 saving over the year.

 

[Serianna]

I have spent maybe 300 bucks in the last year.

1 disposable and full VG juice from the smoke shop as my first try. 2 vapor king batteries and a pass-through + atomizers and tanks (super cheapy junk.) 3 orders of juice. 1 Ego-T battery pass-through 1000mah, drip tip, 2 atomizers, 2 boge cartomizers, and a mini sub.