What are you doing with the money you save with e-cigs?

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Deschain

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Not really making any savings for two reasons...

1: Used to get my tobacco really cheap

2: New to vaping and I've still got plenty of stuff I need/want to buy

Bottom line, I don't give a toss...it's nice to able to feel myself breathing freely, not stinking of smokes and all the other benefits I've reaped from switching to a PV.


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oldtechno

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Well, I pretty much have to agree with everybody.

Normally I doubt I would ever have gotten into the black bottom line. But, because I was burning $240 bucks a month on smokes...it's pretty easy for me to regain a black bottom line each month and still buy my toys.

How ever, in about two months I'll have a years supply of juice and 510s. I plan on quiting then since I'm positive I can stay off cigarettes long before then.

All in all, save more money (I have none), eat better (I don't eat much)...who knows...I could buy a pretty good brand new car for $240 a month...beats me.

Imagine getting a $240 buck a month pay raise suddenly...and you don't have any new bills to gobble it up, taxes and ss are already paid..........the possibilities are endless!
 

JeannieB360

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Today I bought a new 24 inch monitor for my computer using the money I saved this week, since I no longer smoke 3 packs of cigarettes a day at a little more than $7 a pack.

I've also spent a lot on ecig supplies - have a Little Chuck on order, and am having a lot of fun with DIY e-liquid. I've got at least 10 unopened bottles of flavorings, and I'm resisting making any more of my own until I finish off some more of the flavors of pre-made ejuice I ordered as samples!
 

Eric in AK

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Kind of funny how I've always sort of believed all the signature banners that tell how much people have saved and thought they'd really saved that much. The banners would be more accurate if they said "X analogs avoided that would have cost $(amount).

I have a buttload of various e-liquids with nicotine, but today I bought a quart bottle of food grade glycerin and a gallon of distilled water, and I've been having a blast vaping almost full strength 0 mg VG. I love the flavor and the volume of smoke, and I'm finding that I haven't had a nicotine craving all day. Really strange.

It sort of tells me that despite the common thread that runs through our lives - a habit that most of us wish we'd never had - we all are unique in our physical and psychological responses to the habit and to the new substitute we've found.

To me, e-cigs represent an opportunity on many levels. Saving money is minor, but it puts a tangible feeling to the change I've made. Even if I don't save much, every dollar that would have gone to a losing proposition (analogs) now goes to something that is either benign (vaping) or beneficial (spending on things that truly have utility or help others). Can't beat it.

I say give some sort of Nobel prize to the person who invented this concept. It's pretty close to post-it notes, white out, and the internet in my list of greatest inventions!
 

cyberwolf

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The money that I saved by switching insurance never fully materialized either in my front yard, under a donut case or on a basketball court. Taking that experience into account, I have immediately bought more vaping stuff with each month's savings...

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JebGipson

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YUMMY!:) I have been mixing Coffee with Vanilla and Chocolate!

(sorry to be off topic buttttttt....) wow that would be a marvelous juice! choconilla mocha! I must mix up some, what ratio do you use of each flavor and what brands of juices and mg? didja post a recipe in the diy subforum?
 

Dirtybutts

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(sorry to be off topic buttttttt....) wow that would be a marvelous juice! choconilla mocha! I must mix up some, what ratio do you use of each flavor and what brands of juices and mg? didja post a recipe in the diy subforum?

It is an amazing taste! I have found I cant get it right by mixing it all together so I start with an empty cart and add a few drops of each and adjust as I go through the day..Needs more vanilla I add another drop and so on. For this combo I have been using wet your stick vanilla and chocolate in 18mg and coffee from Rocky Mountain Vapor in 24mg. I really hope you do try it this way although mixing it all in a bottle would be easier for some I am enjoying my way and can change it up super fast by adding whatever I need as I vape through out the day! Hope that helps!:lol:
 

Getsayystgetsie

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If you look at my signature below, you'll see I'm not really saving much with e-cigs. That's only because I wasn't spending much on analogs in the first place. For other members, the savings information in their signatures can be huge. Some people have been spending thousands of dollars a year on cigarettes. Ouch.

Anyway, every day I'm smoke free I put $5 in a jar on my kitchen counter. That represents the money I'll save each day plus my mental bonus for the value I'm adding to my life in terms of health and aesthetics (no cig stench, no burn holes in clothes/car seats, etc.)

When I've got enough in the jar, I'll buy myself the roundtrip ticket to England I've been putting on hold. After that, I will buy the new kayak I've promised myself....or....

Well, either that or first I'll do the thing my conscience tells me is right: Give money to the local hospital's cancer treatment center for their fund to buy stuff for patients that insurance won't pay for, such as some types of prosthetics (breast cancer patients), wigs, and various things that make each day a little more bearable. For all I know, stopping smoking analogs might have raised the odds that I'll never be in that treatment center as a patient.

I wonder if anyone else is setting aside the money they save for particular purposes. Believe me, it's a huge motivator seeing those $5 bills in that jar. After only a week and a half, it's starting to look like real money.


that would be very sweet of you!
 
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