OMG dont tell my husband!

[Ladiekali]

Ok so i bought my first ecig august 31 2013
so about a month ago.
So just about 1 month later i added my reciepts and deducted my credits and omg!

the grand total $826.94

the worst part is i gave my triton set and accessories to my mom and grandpa.
i had to return my itaste, the clearos wouldnt thread on it.
Been waiting for that one to be ahipped out.

i currently own 1 spinner.

and have 2 esmarts on the way. Just ordered those with 2 day shipping as im sol when charging my spinner and end up buying smokes, and not sure when ill get my itaste back.

i still have to get a couple clearos i like.

Point is i got one freaking battery right now.
i mean im good one juice for a bit, i hope.

my husband doesnt even smoke.
he is deployed on a submarine right now.
he is going to think im a ...... addict or something!

lord have mercy on me!
Divorce could be in my near future lol.

$826!
i knew i didnt want to add those reciepts.

I miht have gone overboard huh?
no dont answer that.
im just venting.

so curious... How much have you all spent? Am i the only one this crazy?

 

[r77r7r]

$550 since Feb '11.

 

[Spazmelda]

That's so funny that you've spent >$800 and only have one spinner currently in your possession. LOL. At least you will have more to show when your itaste gets back and your other stuff arrives.

There's a thread somewhere on here like "how much have you spent on hardware to date". I tallied mine up there, but I can't remember what I came up with.

 

[E_DeCastro]

826 and all you have to show for it is one spinner? You are good. lol.

 

[Il Capo Svedese]

Definitely not $826 worth (yet)...

Since March of this year, between Blu, the Vea, cartos, e-juices and now my new toy (iTaste SVD), I'm around $500 plus or minus a few dollars.

 

[swampman]

I just started out soooo i wanted a vv,charger and batts...about 150ish in all. But im at the point now where i can start rebuilding next month and i have enough mount baker to last me a while.

 

[BardicDruid]

the grand total $826.94
the worst part is i gave my triton set and accessories to my mom and grandpa.

Well it's not that bad considering it's got 3 people vaping.

 

[Whosback]

Well I've ventured into vaping twice now. First time I want over board on gear and trying new things and spent easily what you spent (I'll be it over a much longer period), but that was just on me. I had nobody interested in vaping around me. This was about 2010 so vaping was really uncommon near me. You are paying it forward to other people so that is pretty cool .

Just remember this is money that is helping you reduce smokes and that is always a good thing. Just maybe take time to really evaluate what you want in an e-cig and delivery device to try and narrow down your purchases and also look at websites like fast tech, longer shipping but much lower prices.

 

[EddardinWinter]

About 200 dollars a month (which was my initial budget), and so right at $3,000. I meant to revise that monthly budget down after one year, but I really like some of the stuff I have been finding lately. ProVarii don't grow on trees, you know. Now that I have discovered RBAs, I will need a few of those, too.

But, I have a lot of gear and liquid to show for it...and a lot less of me as well since I am shedding weight left and right now that I can breathe...I call that 3K a good investment in my health. I don't have some nagging spouse screeching in my ear, either, so I get to spend what I wanna. If you spouse gives you grief, just get rid of them. I bet you can find some younger, hotter, more understanding person if you need to. The single life is full of opportunities! Remind your spouse of that if they get to taxing with their harping on, "this is a big waste of money...blah, blah, blah..."

 

[Ladiekali]

I think most went to ejuices. I started with halo and ran out of juice when i went to reorder website was down,
Website was down for 3 days...
So then i had no juice and none coming,
So i ordered from juice mafia,
Couldnt even vape it yuck,
Then ordered from goodejuic, but it was just ok.
Finally halo was back up, ordered from them,
Then found mr e tried a couple samples eh ok.
Decided to order 4 bottles more from halo cuz juice is the key ingredient here.

Then tried a few samples wih high desert vaper and they had coupon for almost half off,
Got those back and went buck crazy on juices from them, because they actually tasted good with no steep time and alot xheaper than halo.

So maybe once i get all my equipment ill be ok for a few month other than a couple clearos.

I did just supposedly win a 650 ego, mini nova and charger, but i havent gotten it and dnt know when that will be shipped.

Trying to be positive here.
I think of the contest win as good karma for hooking up my family

When its all said and done i should have 2 320mah esmarts, 1 640 ego c, 1 1300mah vision spinner, and i itaste vv3. 5 batteries will be nice.

I should also have enou ejuice to equal 22 30 ml bottles. Now if my math is right, at ahould be 5-7 months of juice. I think.
I seem to be vaping 3-4 ml a day.

Shew!

 

[JollyVaper]

I was spending $80 per week om cigarettes....... Now about $30 per week on Vapeware.... BUT just think of the Doctor bills that you will be saving in the future!!! Plus your house, the car, your clothes and your person DO NOT smell like an ashtray. My opinion...... the expense for the vaping supplies is definitely CHEAPER!!

 

[Debra_oh]

I suppose you can hope for your hubbie to be on a long deployment. By the time he is home you will be all sorted out with your vaping supplies and be able to spread the cost out over a longer period; that will make is seem much more reasonable.

 

[joeybear]

Thank you for being my bad example! I read your post to my wife and she's mildly in shock. Makes my $300ish in three weeks seem not so bad. .

 

[Talyon]

Close to 3600 since feb/13. But I'm stocked up real nice and cozy, hehehehehehe!

Now how much is a second freezer? Lol

 

[FirebornMuse]

Back when I tried blue, between the starter kit and cartridges I probably spent $250... In the past week since I started with the more advanced pv's I've spent... $200... but I've gotten 2 EVOD BCC's 2 650 batteries and a charger my protank II and eGo C Twist battery, 15 5 ml bottles of juice... 20 replacement heads for the EVODs 20 replacement heads for the Protank II and even a couple drip tips and a lanyard... I'm set for awhilllllllllllllleeeee...

 

[Whosback]

I think the biggest thing that makes the cost of vaping stand out is that vaping feels more like a want instead of a need. Plus outside of juice it's usually a bigger hit in one go. The cost of smokes is like the effects of smoking, a little bit of damage at a time.

 

[DetraMental]

Were you a former smoker, if so then you should be saving money from that and investing into vaping, right!? Breaking even?

 

[Fulgurant]

I think most went to ejuices.

Yeah, it's easy to get carried away with juices. On the other hand, having a lot of juice around can save you in the long run. When I did my tally, I came up with about $386 in equipment costs -- but that's for both me and the wife, and frankly (don't tell her!) it could have been a lot less if I hadn't been buying stuff kinda speculatively in the hope that she'd grow as interested in vaping as I am -- maybe she'll prefer a different color; maybe she'll prefer a different battery or a different kind of tank, that sort of thing.

Anyway, toss in another ~$300 in juices, and the credit card's groaning a bit, but it looks worse than it really is. Most of the equipment doesn't have to be replaced or even supplemented for at least a year, and I still haven't used most of the juice yet. Some of it I haven't even tasted. I could probably make it to 2014 fairly comfortably without spending another dime. Of course, I will spend more dimes before January, but work with me here.

When you figure that my smoking habit, alone, accounted for somewhere around $4,000 per year, I'm still comfortably in the black, or soon will be. The problem, if you can call it a problem, is that cigarette money was spent casually and in cash on a day-to-day basis, whereas vaping supplies are generally bought in large chunks and placed on the credit card. So there's a temptation to spend the extra cash as if it just magically appeared in my wallet, rather than socking it away to put it towards the CC bill.

So the long and the short of all that rambling is that if you helped three people to quit smoking, then you've spent less than I have, per capita.

 

[Recon Number 54]

OMG dont tell my husband!

If I had a nickel for every time I was told that....

 

[Myrany]

My First cou0ple of months were way overboard. Since then though I have the budget solidly in the $35-$75 a month range which is less than half of what I spent smoking. I am now about $150 ahead of the game rather than behind.

THat said I economize by not buying juice and making my own. Also by recoiling most of the heads for the clearo's I use. So realistically my costs probably could drop below the $35 point if I didn't get a new gadget now and then.

Once you find the kit that makes you happy the expenditures should drop. Just don't jump on every new thing that comes down the pipe