Yearly Inventory/Daily Costings

[lobeydosser]

To give beginners a better view of vaping and ofcourse for my own use, I have just done an Oct 2014 to Oct 2015 inventory.

I then ordered all the chemicals I have used, to bring my stocks back up to what they were.

All in all my vaping it is working out at 32.9 pence a day.

3 years ago I stopped smoking my usual 40 super-king that was costing me £15 a day.

So whether you are considering changing to vaping for health or social reasons, just perhaps the extra jingling of spare cash in your pocket/handbag may be a good enough incentive to give vaping a serious go.

It certainly was for me.

[Deleted]

I don't know how I afforded smoking now. I still the the 20 Marlboros conversion rate - makes me feel better.

Nick

[lynxkat]

Nov 8, 2015 15:50:13 GMT lobeydosser said:

To give beginners a better view of vaping and ofcourse for my own use, I have just done an Oct 2014 to Oct 2015 inventory.

I then ordered all the chemicals I have used, to bring my stocks back up to what they were.

All in all my vaping it is working out at 32.9 pence a day.

3 years ago I stopped smoking my usual 40 super-king that was costing me £15 a day.

So whether you are considering changing to vaping for health or social reasons, just perhaps the extra jingling of spare cash in your pocket/handbag may be a good enough incentive to give vaping a serious go.

It certainly was for me.

Good work.  I agree Financial savings are huge, but the Health Benefits are Priceless.

[lobeydosser]

I don't know that I have experienced any actual health benefits, however if there are any, they have come through the change of lifestyle that vaping has allowed me to indulge in.

Through the savings I bought and did up an old caravan and so we now see much more of the countryside.
I have also spent a fortune doing up my old back garden which was a cross between a Paddy Field and a Dump.
By next year we hope to become self sufficient in all our main vegetables and fruit.

So yes, no more sitting at home watching telly with a fag hanging from my gob, I am either exploring some part of our beautiful country or in the back garden, usually in the pouring rain, up to me ears in muddy soil or trundling a wheel barrow.

I might die of pneumonia or trench foot, but certainly not of lung cancer!

[chykensa]

... and I think you'll find that those Superkings are more like £20/day now; I saw inside a cigarette display at a local supermarket recently and noticed that Benson and Hedges are almost £10/pack!!

[GunJack]

Nov 8, 2015 15:50:13 GMT lobeydosser said:

To give beginners a better view of vaping and ofcourse for my own use, I have just done an Oct 2014 to Oct 2015 inventory.

I then ordered all the chemicals I have used, to bring my stocks back up to what they were.

All in all my vaping it is working out at 32.9 pence a day.

3 years ago I stopped smoking my usual 40 super-king that was costing me £15 a day.

So whether you are considering changing to vaping for health or social reasons, just perhaps the extra jingling of spare cash in your pocket/handbag may be a good enough incentive to give vaping a serious go.

It certainly was for me.

just out of interest lobey, have you kept a record of total spend since you stopped (all hardware, etc. as well as mixing supplies)? Just interested as I've kept it all in one sheet, not broken out just mixing stuff from hardware, so have an overall cost per day of £1.22 but that spend includes stockpiling nic base and hardware... might have to break out mixing stuff only to get an ongoing cost...

edit - just worked out for juice-making only, a year's-worth of mixing supplies comes in at £48.20 or 13p per day @ 5ml used per day, thankfully my flavour concentrates are pretty strong so go a long way

[TJ]

When I started vaping I did keep a spreadsheet of sorts on my phone, after a couple of months I kept forgetting to add to it, I am glad I did as shinyitus took hold then mixi-itus joined that and the rest is history. As I smoked rollies it only cost me £25 a week, I know for certain that I have spent a whole lot more than that on vaping stuff BUT I don't care. I have invested in my future which will now be longer as I am not killing myself.

I can breathe, I don't stink, I can walk from the bottom of my ponies field to the top without taking a breather halfway, my fingers are not yellow, my clothes have no new burn holes in them but best of all I can snuggle on the sofa with my daughter and she doesn't move away cos I smell rough......

I still have a bit of shinyitus and mixi-itus but it has slowed considerably and now I only buy 'bargains' or special offers and I do cull now and then and give away when I can if others are interested.

[Deleted]

Excellent thread to give newbies an idea of the potential savings. As I've yet to actually start (waiting for stuff to be delivered), it is good to have a rough idea how much I may be able to save...I currently smoke 5 packs a week which is £34 or so a week (only smoke lower cost ones) which means I am spending about £140 a month on them (no idea how I manage to afford that!). Using your daily cost as a basis works out at less than £10 a month, so a £135 a month saving! Looks like my PS4 will be affordable in a lot less time than I thought

[lobeydosser]

Hi GunJack, A wee while ago when the total, based on 40 super-king costing £15, I did a calculation which said I would have spent £17,000.

At that time my total vaping expenditure was aprox £2,400.

In the 3+ years since I changed to vaping we have bought a Brand New Car (Dacia 4X4), an old Caravan (which we have refurbished) and spent a small fortune on a new garden.

The savings have not just come from vaping though.
I have no need to make the daily trek to the local shop so I am not buying the inevitable rubbish that I used to buy when I went for fags and so not only do we have tangible items to show the benefits of vaping, but our Bank Balance is considerably healthier than it has been in years.

SWMBO gets her Winter Holidays with her friends while I get the "pleasure"???? of staying at home TV Remote and Dog Sitting. A task which suits me just fine!

I guess the biggest change of all is that for years we would view catalogues and TV Adverts and "drool" over things, wishing we could afford them.
Today we don't drool. Today, if we like something, we can afford to buy it.
I'm not saying we do though. Just because we can afford something, we have had a long enough time of being skint that things have to be of good value before we will commit to actually purchasing them.

The Car. The Caravan. The Garden. Aye, and Vaping too, all fall into the same category, in that they all follow the Flag of "Freedom of Choice".

[lobeydosser]

Nov 9, 2015 7:19:51 GMT chykensa said:

... and I think you'll find that those Superkings are more like £20/day now; I saw inside a cigarette display at a local supermarket recently and noticed that Benson and Hedges are almost £10/pack!!

Thanks for that chykensa. I am too scared to look these days at what I once thought I would be spending for the rest of my life.

They say that you will not miss what you never had.
Well the idea of losing what vaping has brought me, gives me the terrors.
Gawd help us if government schemes takes away our vaping.

[lobeydosser]

Hi TJ, My 2 "Wooly Hot Water Bottles" Bichons by breed, used to avoid me like the plague when I smoked. If per chance they got a whiff of cigarette smoke, their top lip would curl back and they would sneeze fit to burst.

Today they will lie on my lap, even when I am vaping, and doze.
If that doesn't say something against the chemicals in tobacco, nothing will.

Hi @nursemorph, Every one of us are ex-smokers and every one of us has found a new way of life from changing to vaping.
Vaping is just the first step, the possibilities are almost incalculable.
So go for it and enjoy the ride.

And this from someone who last year thought that having Green Fingers was a disease, now it's a hobby.

[GunJack]

Nov 9, 2015 16:55:28 GMT lobeydosser said:

someone who ..... thought that having Green Fingers was a disease, now it's a hobby.

now hold on a cotton-pickin' minute... if you think I'm turning to gardening, think again

sorry lobey, yer on yer own with that one

[lobeydosser]

Hi GunJack, Since last May the garden has gone from this;-


To this;-


Well actually it is a bit further on than that and I already have some veg coming up that will be ready next Spring.

Tomorrow, if this bloody rain goes off, I have 105 winter flowering plants to go in and then I have to fill some tubs to take 1 Raspberry bush, 1 Tayberry bush and a dwarf Plum Tree.

In the meantime I am off to study some seed catalogues.

Oh JOY!!!!

[GunJack]

lobeydosser I remember you posting these on your other thread - hats off to you mate, it's a fantastic result

...however I think I'll stick to fixing computers for my "fun-fix"

[lobeydosser]

Oh come on now GunJack.

Just think of all the fun I had this afternoon, standing in the mud with the puddles coming in over the top of my shoes while I planted out 30 Polyanthus.

And what's more, I go to bed tonight thinking about how much more fun I will have tomorrow, planting out 30 Sweet Williams, 30 Stocks and 20 Pansies.

I just hope the shoes dry out overnight!!!

Never leave until tomorrow,
what you can do today,
'cause if you do it today and like it,
you can do it AGAIN tomorrow!