Typical first month expenditure?

[HeadLikeOrange]

OK, it's been one month since I bought my first e-cig (3 weeks analog-free). I went through my email receipts today and tallied it all up and found I'd spent $320 on e-cig materials. I have read that most people spend heavily early on, and am wondering if this is typical. Also, what is your experience going forward? I keep telling myself that I've got what I need now and should be set (save for juice and cartos) going forward, but who knows...

Anyway, in case you are curious, here's where the money went:
$110 on my NJOY NPRO at a local gas station. Ill-informed first puchase. 2 batts w/chargers, 15 replacement cartos (25% of which were DOA).
$30 on non-NJOY RN4081 cartos (call this throwing good money after bad)
$70 on eGo starter kit and juice (now we're getting somewhere)
$30 on more juice after finding a couple to my taste (still have most on-hand)
$8 on an adapter to use those RN4081 cartos on my eGo
$27 on LR cartos (now we're REALLY getting somewhere)
$10 on a Riva 510 battery (figured I'd need a third batt, why not try the Riva)
$15 on an eGo carry case
$20 for more juice and a syringe

I'd typically spend about $250 a month on analogs ($8.50 a pack where I live), so if I limit my spend to juice for the next couple of months, I'll be ahead. Already drooling over some of the mod kits out there, though.

 

[madjack]

...at this point...2mos on...I have spent around 500bux...since I was spending at least 400bux/mos on the funkies and have gear/juice that would last another month+ I am certainly ahead of the game..........
madjack

 

[Danielsuzuki]

Pretty pricy month! Last month I spent about a hundred including a new kit. 50 on juice. I still have juice left over, plenty.

 

[El-ahrairah]

My first month I spent about $80: $60 for a Blu kit and $20 for some juice from Ms. T. The last thing I bought was 180ml of caramel tobacco liquid from Bluemist for $30, a month or so ago.

 

[tmcase]

If you don't get carried away like some of us and have to have every new toy, carto, tank etc that comes along then your initial $320 isn't bad. If you like what you have then the juice and extra cartos and batteries will be a lot less especially if you space out your spending. If you spend $100 a month on replenishing your supplies you'll still come out ahead.

 

[Shilo]

Eight weeks in about 400 dollars for two people. That includes our 2nd setup, diy supplies, etc. I consider myself frugal and only bought on a substantial sale---have to when you need to equip two people.

 

[chatter97]

I just quit a month and a half ago, I got my first kit from a friend. But since then I don't want to think about what I have spent. First buying and trying cartos, then atomizers, drip tips, ego t batteries(longer battery life) and of course juice. It feels like a never ending cycle. Don't want to think about what I have spent in this initial period of time.
Of course, my first three weeks i kept telling my wife that my Ego T batteries were enough for me, then I ended up ordering a silver bullet. I also keep buying juices. I want to try them all!!!! I have about 5-7 tobacco flavors I like to vape throughout the day, but I do enjoy vaping something different at least 2 or 3 times a day. I have now settled on the Ikenvape atomizers and have gotten better at dripping. Now that I have my mod, I can see that eventually my expenses will go down. I know I will need more atomizers(want to try the io6!) and I know I will eventually want some other batteries for 5v or 6v vaping and of course I am still ordering lots of different juices. So for now, expenses are lowering, but not by much!!!

 

[cement]

Couple more months you will be using mods with bigger bats and mixing juice. I think of smoking as a bad habit and vaping a hobby .

 

[madjack]

...at this point...2mos on...I have spent around 500bux...since I was spending at least 400bux/mos on the funkies and have gear/juice that would last another month+ I am certainly ahead of the game..........
madjack

I guess I should have stated, this is for 3 people and includes 4 Riva kits, an ePower a half dozen bundles of cartos from CCV and the rest in juices.......
madjack

 

[Baldr]

My first day, I spent 213.89. My first month, I spent 248.28.

Over the three months I've been vaping, I've spent $425.22 on vaping "stuff". That's batteries, juice, cartomizers/atty's, etc, including delivery fees. That's 141.74 a month over 3 months, but I won't average that high long run unless I'm buying mods. When I was smoking, I was spending over $300 a month on cigs.

During most of that 3 months, I was still smoking, and I've done some math and can guess that I'm about $200 a head comparing what I was spending before, and what I've spent over those three months. Now that I'm off the cigs, and stocked up on vaping stuff, I expect to be saving a fair amount. And I expect to put some of that savings into a VV mod before long.

 

[Iffy]

My first month, I spent 248.28.

Pffft... I probably spent that much just on $hipping.

 

[Boodle]

$190 for the mall kit. It proved to me that vaping works... then the buying rampage started. I'll slow down soon. Only 3 VapeMail packages this week. Yikes. It's only Wednesday

 

[Stosh]

When figuring what you spent on PVs, starting out I think it's fair to throw out your first mistake or two. For the OP the $110 for a NJOY NPRO and another $30 for cartos for the same. Subtract that from the $320 and the cost for starting was $180, and a $140 lesson in comparison shopping

If you were trading on the stock market, you drop the non-winners and stick with the good investments paying yearly dividends. And not losing sleep on the trades that didn't work out....

 

[o4_srt]

If it helps, once you're established, your spending will decrease significantly. I spent, on average, $100 a month for the first 2-3 months. It decreased after that, and I'm now spending less than $20 a month. DIY saves TONS of money.

 

[Michael Curry]

"Typical first month expenditure?"

Well, I guess if nothing else, this thread shows me that my wife and I are not quite 'typical'. Looking for the bright side tho, I guess we could call ourselves 'overachievers'? lol ( It's all her fault. You know how women are about shopping. She's a baaaad influence )

We started with mall kiosk crapola, and you know how pricey that is... Next day we found a vape store nearby. Upgraded to eGo-T's and a bunch of carto's and probably a bucket of juice. Fast forward 2 months, upgraded to ProVari's with all the necessary and nice to have extras.

So we're in to this for about $900 and change for hardware, but we should be set for quite a while, and from here on, all we should be needing will be carto's and juice, with the rare replacement 18650 battery.

Yeah, it sounds like a lot, but remember, we buy everything X2. And when we look at the expenditure and think of how much better we feel... Well, a few hundred bucks apiece seems like a steal.

If I had to all to do over again, knowing what I know now, I'd have plunked down the $500 on day one for the ProVari's and been done with it. But hindsight is 20/20. Overall: No regrets.

 

[dormouse]

uh $400-500

(shopaholic)

 

[Michael Curry]

uh $400-500

(shopaholic)

I think I may be married to your sister.

 

[dormouse]

Hahaha

 

[Baldr]

Yeah, if I knew then what I know now, I'd have bought a Buzz Pro, a liquinator or similar tank, and a bunch of Boba's Bounty. Add batteries and a charger, and that would have been great.

But, that being said, if I'd been told "You need to spend over $200 to get started", I'd have walked away. I didn't expect it to work, and wouldn't have considered spending that much.

 

[Murdock Ruml]

With DIY I am down to $6 a month in juice. I usually allow myself $100 for Mods and other hardware but I don't order every month. Doing good though. Almost at 2 years vaping and spent just under $2000 total. If I had been smoking/dipping I would of spent double that easy. Short of ordering some flavoring, I am set for about 6 months.