Imagine how many packs of cigarettes you would have to buy to last as long as all that juice will last you. Imagine how much that would cost.. You did save money.
I hope that's true. Smoking was cheap. I quit to get healthier.
I bet you save a lot in the long run once you stop buying DIY stuff, though. You'll probably never (or rarely) need to buy anything again.
Ya that's what I'm hoping, but it always seems that I come across new recipes and never have the proper flavors. Maybe Once I get all the flavors from every company I think I'm set for life. Haha
And then they start to go bad...
I'm in the same boat as you.
The sad thing is if you add it all up pull for pull by the time you're done with all that I would imagine you've saved a TON of money.
I invested in DiY once I started looking at where my money was going to vaping. At first I thought the gear was the expensive part till I started looking at juice consumption and price per ml.
I felt bad when I spent my chunk to get started, but once I started tracking what it was actually costing me per bottle and realize I could make 7-8 bottles for the price of one bottle of "premium" juice it was a no brainer. I'm still going on supplies I order months ago and my entire collection of gear pays for itself then some before I order more.
Least that's the way I justify it to the wife. ;-)
Hah...
We're probably the exception to the rule since we were rolling our own smokes (so we're talking less than $13/carton), but at the rate my wife and I are going it'll be some time before vaping saves us any real money. I actually just did the math and taking into consideration what we've already spent and assuming we stick to a really tight budget (DIY everything, no new tanks or anything like that aside the ones we're already planning on purchasing, just replacement nic/VG/flavors/batteries/wire) we'll break even somewhere between May and August of 2020 assuming prices stay about the same and 100mg/mL nicotine base is still easy enough to get, at which point we'll begin to save about $200/year.
Slightly more realistically (assuming the relative cost difference between RYO and vaping stays roughly the same but accounting for the new hardware and flavors to experiment with we'll inevitably buy) our breakeven point will be closer to when our oldest graduates high school (she just started kindergarten last week).
Of course I'm still extremely happy we made the switch - the financial aspect notwithstanding I wish we'd started years ago - but "sav[ing] boatloads", not so much. :P
Makes sense. I was a PAD at $7 a pack, so smoking use to cost me around $2500 a year.
Yeah I would always default to around there (give or take) any time I tried to cut back before my wife first got pregnant. That prompted me to make a rule for myself that smoking was an outside-only thing from then on, and we live up in the frozen North (-30F is far from unheard of, it'll even get down around -40F every now and then), so that cut my consumption back a bit, but then a while later (after the pregnancy) she picked it up.
The last year we had been down to a bit over 2 cartons' worth a month between us, definitely weren't spending more than about $400 a year rolling our own. If we were buying factory-rolled it would have been closer to $2k for the both of us.
Is that Life brand glycerin?
Yes it is. I pick it up from shoppers drug mart.
Well, I've not smoked for 87 days now apparently.
I've spent about £100 on my device itself, £30 on batteries and charger, about £40 on flavours and what not for diy, with a plan to buy a few more and a larger bottle of strawberry soon. So at current, I've saved a total of £667 minus my costs above. Not smoked 1694 smokes. I'm happy.
I haven't smoked since 2012 and you can save money vaping.. Some people choose not to because they realize its a positive thing in their life that they enjoy, like if someone skateboards they choose to either skate hard and gnar and break a deck every month and it costs 50$ for a new one, or skate mellow because they don't want to break it and it lasts a lifetime.
You know what's funny though? I bet you everything I see in that picture costs less than a month of smoking! And in terms of juice it would make, that would easily make you a year's supply.
So technically you could stop buying stuff tomorrow and for the next year not pay a dime towards vaping :)
I didn't smoke a heck of a lot I was at 1 or 2 smokes a day Monday to Friday. And maybe 4-5 on weekends. So roughly I had 15-20 smokes a week. I smoked DK's. Which cost me $40 a carton. I spent $20 a month on smokes. But hey. Tried vaping and loved it instantly. May 3rd was my last cigarette and I'm ok with how much I've spent on vaping!