Without going into the details of everything I bought, this is more about overall cost. So far I have tracked every dime and it totals $375, but soon will be $475. I think I have about 1 month of liquid and coils on hand, but too new to know that. I could have spent less, and if I had not bothered with starter kits and had gone straight to VW and had not bothered with small clearomizers and gone straight to the Kanger Protank then it would be $150 less. The point is not my choice of VAMO, SVD and Protanks (plenty of other mods would have worked) but rather that trying to stay cheap in the beginning now leaves me with equipment that will likely sit in the drawer and eventually get trashed.
The key here is that I KNEW I was going to vape as soon as I tried my first disposable, it was only a question of finding something to adequately replace the stinkies. Another key is that I used tobacco for 35+ years and something more adjustable to the way I smoked (hence the VW) would have saved time and money.
But like most if not all noobs I was leery of just dumping cash into vaping. I wrote my own little program to track it for me (I like playing with the 'puter) and so far I have saved, or not spent, $75 on stinkies. BUT, if I had gotten my VAMO (or a mod as previously stated) from day one I would have saved $3350. I am still new enough that liquid and coils are not figured into this because I do not have enough data to average the usage, but it would be far less than $3350 for sure. And to be fair, I wasted a year because my first was not adequate, was disappointed, and kept buying smokes.
So I am curious if other vapers, not new but not veterans would agree with this idea of "knowing what I know now". I remember coming across similar posts before getting my first and still decided not to jump in head first, but now wish I did, because I knew (this is key) from my first disposable that vaping could work for me.
Almost a moot point because the savings in the long run still outweigh this $150 for equipment I could have saved. I hear some of ya'll laughing already, 5 bones isn't squat to some here.
The key here is that I KNEW I was going to vape as soon as I tried my first disposable, it was only a question of finding something to adequately replace the stinkies. Another key is that I used tobacco for 35+ years and something more adjustable to the way I smoked (hence the VW) would have saved time and money.
But like most if not all noobs I was leery of just dumping cash into vaping. I wrote my own little program to track it for me (I like playing with the 'puter) and so far I have saved, or not spent, $75 on stinkies. BUT, if I had gotten my VAMO (or a mod as previously stated) from day one I would have saved $3350. I am still new enough that liquid and coils are not figured into this because I do not have enough data to average the usage, but it would be far less than $3350 for sure. And to be fair, I wasted a year because my first was not adequate, was disappointed, and kept buying smokes.
So I am curious if other vapers, not new but not veterans would agree with this idea of "knowing what I know now". I remember coming across similar posts before getting my first and still decided not to jump in head first, but now wish I did, because I knew (this is key) from my first disposable that vaping could work for me.
Almost a moot point because the savings in the long run still outweigh this $150 for equipment I could have saved. I hear some of ya'll laughing already, 5 bones isn't squat to some here.
The money "wasted" on my beginner setups peaked my interest, but I would never want to carry something as big as a 18650 mod, or perish the thought, a box mod (shudder)...
Where's my Beer? 
