Isee alot of folks on here sayin how much $ they're saving by quitting cigarettes, but are they factoring in the cost of gear and juice? I was spending 20 a week on cigs and then 20 an oz on premo juice a week. My health is much better now but my pockets are the same. Please tell me where to get juice that will reflect those savings.
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MBV ( Mount Baker Vapor ) has really good juices for good prices too. how many ml are you getting for how much?
Get some DIY stuff and make your own juice. I get my nic and some stuff from myfreedomsmokes.com
thats another road ^^ . thats also what i want to start doing , probably next pay check ill start ordering my stuff
DIY juice is the way forward, i can make 50ml of the nicest VC you will taste for £4.50. Building your own coils will save money too if you are buying atty heads.
For me, vaping isn't cheaper. Its actually much more expensive once you start counting the Mods, tanks, chargers, coils, atomizers etc etc... however.... has life a price? I could smoke all cigs I wanted for $5 a month... you can't get any cheaper than that but the cost was a pneumonia and a 3 months long bronquitis... you're not going to do anything with the money if you're 6 feet under... if you know what I mean.
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I went that route once. It was nice for two years but I really never was completely satisfied... don't know... maybe I didn't sourced out the right bases. Its a nice price you got there
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Tony
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I went that route once. It was nice for two years but I really never was completely satisfied... don't know... maybe I didn't sourced out the right bases. Its a nice price you got there
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Reo Grand
RM2
Nitecore i2
10 meters of 30AWG,
a bag of cotton balls
2 AW 18650s
120ml of 10% nic concentrate,
1000ml 50/50 dilutant,
a small philips screwdriver, a pair of tweezers and a pair of toenail clippers.
A year of vaping for less than $1 per day. (additional REO's will increase expenditure)
Cheers
I
ETA: and a multimeter
RM2
Nitecore i2
10 meters of 30AWG,
a bag of cotton balls
2 AW 18650s
120ml of 10% nic concentrate,
1000ml 50/50 dilutant,
a small philips screwdriver, a pair of tweezers and a pair of toenail clippers.
A year of vaping for less than $1 per day. (additional REO's will increase expenditure)
Cheers
I
ETA: and a multimeter
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My battery costs about $90. I buy one about every 6 months so that's about $15.00 per month. I buy 30ml of juice every payday for about $30.00, that's $60.00 per month. I buy $15.00 per month in cartomizers. So I spend about $90.00 per month unless I decide to buy a new toy.
When I was smoking I would smoke a pack a day at about $8.00 per pack which is about $240.00 per month.
When I was smoking I would smoke a pack a day at about $8.00 per pack which is about $240.00 per month.
$20 here would buy you about 3.5 packs of cigarettes. I was spending more like $300 per month on cigarettes. If I go through one coil per day (because I'm too lazy to clean/dry-burn them) and 60ml of juice per month (I've never used that many/much yet), I'm still only spending about $55 per month.
Yes, I could spend more on vaping than I did smoking, if I chose to get shiny-itis. But as long as I have a good battery and a couple of tanks to put my juice in, I'm happy.
Yes, I could spend more on vaping than I did smoking, if I chose to get shiny-itis. But as long as I have a good battery and a couple of tanks to put my juice in, I'm happy.
It all depends on how much you smoked and how you approach vaping.
Of course there can't be a guarantee that you'll save money, but that $20 a week is about a grand a year - it's possible to turn that into three years worth of vaping.
I kid you not.
I spent a LOT in my first six months of vaping, and then it slowed down over time. Now, outside of a gear purchase here and there, I spend $30 a month on an e-liquid subscription service, I DIY my own e-liquids, and I rebuild everything.
Factoring in consumables and hardware, I've spent about $300 for my DIY adventure - for about two years of vaping, and (guessing) about $200 for rebuilding supplies (enough for roughly three years of vaping by my estimate).
So that works out to:
$30 a month subscription
$12.50 a month DIY
$5.50 a month for rebuilding supplies.
Total would be about $50 a month, but restocking is going to be cheaper, because all I need to buy now is the consumable elements, because the hardware (coil jigs, ohm tester, building stand, glassware, etc.) isn't going to be replaced unless it breaks.
And if I stopped the e-liquid subscription I'd be at less than a dollar a day.
Of course there can't be a guarantee that you'll save money, but that $20 a week is about a grand a year - it's possible to turn that into three years worth of vaping.
I kid you not.
I spent a LOT in my first six months of vaping, and then it slowed down over time. Now, outside of a gear purchase here and there, I spend $30 a month on an e-liquid subscription service, I DIY my own e-liquids, and I rebuild everything.
Factoring in consumables and hardware, I've spent about $300 for my DIY adventure - for about two years of vaping, and (guessing) about $200 for rebuilding supplies (enough for roughly three years of vaping by my estimate).
So that works out to:
$30 a month subscription
$12.50 a month DIY
$5.50 a month for rebuilding supplies.
Total would be about $50 a month, but restocking is going to be cheaper, because all I need to buy now is the consumable elements, because the hardware (coil jigs, ohm tester, building stand, glassware, etc.) isn't going to be replaced unless it breaks.
And if I stopped the e-liquid subscription I'd be at less than a dollar a day.
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Oh, and I actually still have my receipt for my original purchase to start vaping.
$11.95 for a Smok Pyrex Aro II
$15 for 3 5-ml bottles of juice (wanted to try different flavors before I bought larger bottles)
$49.95 for an Itaste VV
With tax it came to a total initial purchase of $82.20. Less than a third of what I'd have paid to smoke for a month.
Since then, I've bought two more Pyrex Aro IIs. (Saves having to clean tanks between flavors)
And last month I bought a second Itaste VV (because I just knew I was going to accidentally bust mine in the middle of the night when my B&M store wasn't open and would end up buying a pack of analogs)
I might have been able to get the Aro's and batteries for less on-line, but I like to support my local B&M shop so they'll be there for other new vapers like I was.
$11.95 for a Smok Pyrex Aro II
$15 for 3 5-ml bottles of juice (wanted to try different flavors before I bought larger bottles)
$49.95 for an Itaste VV
With tax it came to a total initial purchase of $82.20. Less than a third of what I'd have paid to smoke for a month.
Since then, I've bought two more Pyrex Aro IIs. (Saves having to clean tanks between flavors)
And last month I bought a second Itaste VV (because I just knew I was going to accidentally bust mine in the middle of the night when my B&M store wasn't open and would end up buying a pack of analogs)
I might have been able to get the Aro's and batteries for less on-line, but I like to support my local B&M shop so they'll be there for other new vapers like I was.
Well, if you smoked a couple packs a day, at $5-$7 a pack, and an extra pack if you went out on the weekends, vaping gets dirt cheap in a hurry. I figure I was spending anywhere from $350-$450 dollars a month on cigarettes. It varied, because I varied what I was smoking. So my whole ProVari setup including batteries and charger, everything, cost me less than a single months cigarettes. After learning to wrap my own coils, and getting into rebuildables, my price per month went to just juice, and even when I was vaping nothing but Halo from a local store I'd have been hard pressed to hit more than $70-$80 a month for supplies. Between juice prices going down everywhere and dabbling in DIY liquid I spend considerably less now. Now a days, if I see something I want, I buy it. I am not a big name brand flasher, so most of my stuff, excepting the ProVari and batteries, are clones that I get dirt cheap by being willing to wait on fasttech. Even if you subtract out every single purchase I've made, I have saved THOUSANDS of dollars by vaping. That's not an exaggeration, that's just basic account balancing.
I do feel I saved considerably more than many people by buying a ProVari fairly early on though, rather than riding the upgrade train from station to station. I basically went from kr808d(cigalike, and the best one available at the time) to a couple Ego styles as soon as they came out, and shortly thereafter purchased a ProVari. Honestly, other than playing with mechanicals, it's only been recently that any devices that really compare to the ProVari have become available, and I'll probably upgrade my Provari to v3 when that rolls around instead of messing with any of them. Heck, if I decide to buy a new v3 mini I still won't be putting a dent in how much I saved.
I do feel I saved considerably more than many people by buying a ProVari fairly early on though, rather than riding the upgrade train from station to station. I basically went from kr808d(cigalike, and the best one available at the time) to a couple Ego styles as soon as they came out, and shortly thereafter purchased a ProVari. Honestly, other than playing with mechanicals, it's only been recently that any devices that really compare to the ProVari have become available, and I'll probably upgrade my Provari to v3 when that rolls around instead of messing with any of them. Heck, if I decide to buy a new v3 mini I still won't be putting a dent in how much I saved.
Well my friend as you know you can go high or low , it's up to you
I have $350.00 to $400.00 invested all in all to date and it's ben 14 months in that time I would have spent $2600.00 on cigarettes .
DIY coils and juice saves big time .
I have $350.00 to $400.00 invested all in all to date and it's ben 14 months in that time I would have spent $2600.00 on cigarettes .
DIY coils and juice saves big time .
I've been vaping for almost 4 years now. Of those 4 years, only 2-3 times have I spent more in a 1 month period than I used to on cigarettes (about $250 per month).
I only did that when splurging on a new mod or buying a bunch of DIY juice supplies.
At this point I could go about 6 months without spending a dime and vape in the style to which I am accustomed.
At the end of the day, if I were to decide to stop vaping, I could sell what I have and recoup a good portion of what I have spent on it.
Yes, even buying nice mods and vaping heavily I am saving a ton of money.
I only did that when splurging on a new mod or buying a bunch of DIY juice supplies.
At this point I could go about 6 months without spending a dime and vape in the style to which I am accustomed.
At the end of the day, if I were to decide to stop vaping, I could sell what I have and recoup a good portion of what I have spent on it.
Yes, even buying nice mods and vaping heavily I am saving a ton of money.
$20 a week in primo juice seems pretty pricey... What exactly are you getting? And who are you getting it from? Some B&M charge a pretty hefty premium (justifiably so in some cases, though not all) and you might not be getting the best price you could be.
20 bucks a week you must not have smoked much. Think about diy juice and it will be about 2 bucks a bottle. Even you can save money
I got myself down to just under $100/month smoking (about 8 cigs a day, give or take one or two) before I stopped. I'm hoping that I can get by for a long time with my iTaste 134 mini, 2 tanks, and my little eGo setup. I tend to have shinyitis a lot with other things, but hopefully I can keep this under control. LOL And I will definitely be looking into DIY for liquid. It's too soon to think about rebuildables. I think all I really need is a really sharp minty one, and back off the nicotine bit by bit. I was a menthol smoker, and not really into flavors other than mint/menthol, so hopefully I'll be able to do all this on the cheap soon!
Check my signature banner. I keep track of what I have spent there. I am assuming that it will eventually even out. Until then, a couple of hundred dollar for my health is worth the investment.
Just yesterday, I began to rebuild my kanger atomizers. At 90 cents each, it will take me a long time to see a return on that investment. At the same time I probably have enough kanthal and silica to last a couple of years.
Just yesterday, I began to rebuild my kanger atomizers. At 90 cents each, it will take me a long time to see a return on that investment. At the same time I probably have enough kanthal and silica to last a couple of years.
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