Typical first month expenditure?

[Balthezar]

I feel lucky. Or thrifty? I spent $10 on a disposable, was ok, so got the same kind rechargeable, $20, liked it, but knew it wouldn't last. Decided I was going to stick with it so I bought VG, flavorings, DIY odds and ends, spent another $15. So far so good. So I ordered some nic and other misc. supplies, another $13 (that included shipping). Now I was getting into it, so I thought, why not get a REAL e-cig, and got me a Joye 510 PCC, which came yesterday (YAY!). With it I got an extra carto, more DIY supplies, extra atty, (forgot extra batt ) and with shipping ran $48. So total for me, $106, including disposable and cheapo. I must be doing something wrong.

Balth

 

[tricci]

Once you find your mods, juices, cartomizers, etc. you start spending way less.

 

[Maximillian]

I too tend to go overboard with new hobbies, and also consider vaping a hobby.

I just added up my costs. Rough total is $623 in a little over 3 weeks.



Add in the coin I spent on locally available crap and the total comes up to 678...

On the bright side, I now have: 8 ego-t batts (650mah - 1000mah)
4 regular joye 510 atty's
12 assorted LR 510 atty's (bridgeless and bridged)
5 ego-t atty's
5 ego-t LR atty's
~45 carto's (LR, SR, ego mega, dual coil, etc.)
4 ego chargers
ego pcc
a dozen driptips
various tanks, cones, etc. for the ego
~50 x 5ml bottles of juice
3 20ml bottles of juice
250ml 50mg unflavored pg
250ml 0mg pg
250ml 0mg vg
a variety of bottles, syringes, etc.
whatever else I can't remember right off



So, I should be set for hardware and juice for a good year, even if I should happen to lose my job

Add in another $50 or so for storage for the above...

...

On the bad side, there's still lots more stuff I want!

I'm trying to be good. Really. Haven't placed any new orders in over a week now. (No, really, my hands ALWAYS shake this bad. I DON'T have a problem.)



Maximillian the Vaguely Disreputable

 

[mafig]

7 months into vaping..dont even want to know the true figure i spent but i will say this, $$ spend this way is a blessing and getting others who smoke to change over..i have backups using 4 sets of different starter kit & e-liquids by the kg..with spares atties,tanks cartos..and i think i am self sufficient for at least 1yr + in vaping but i still want another kit soon..the variable voltage 900/1100 mAh ego..then i be happy..happy vaping every1

 

[Huffelpuff]

I don't wanna talk about it. Hey, do you have any $$ I could borrow?

 

[Balthezar]

Cute Huffenpuff (psst..if it works, let me know, I could use some too LMBO) By the way, I love that avatar

 

[MajorRocker]

$402.78 for my first month. Now that I am set with mods, corto's and juice are all I need so it's only like $80.

 

[tsbrewers]

I haven't added mine up, but buying for two, I think I was in the $400 range the first month and it has gone down from there. I figured I was about even after 4 months and now doing DIY juice, I am guessing I am about 1/2 what analogs would have been.

Brew

 

[Gunslinger]

Hmm let's see:
Unknown 801 and pcc $80
Ego T $80
Liquinator $40
Carto's for each $60
Juice $30
Extra's case drip tips etc $35
= $325
Pack of cig's cost $25 x 4 per week
=$100
I smoke half what I used to since I started vaping (no nic juice yet) so I'm almost break even already.

 

[VadimGod]

Kinda nice and kinda sucky to see others have taken the same path as me.

$130 green smoke starter kit
$100 green smoke prefilled cartos
$40 ego-t (so sad how much the gs was compared to this)
$20 ego t supplies
$20 non ego t supplies (regular cartos and drip attys)
$60 juice

juice and maybe a map tank in the near future. Maybe a spare ego battery.

Vv device not so near future

sad but atleast my experience can take the edge of for new smokers i influence.

$40 for an ego kit, thats like 3.5 packs of cigs in ny.

 

[sidetrack]

It took me 6 months to start saving $$. If I average what I spent over the past 9 months it sounds a bit better, $107. per month which still beats what I would have spent on analogs, $150.00 per month. I have not ordered anything for 3 mo. now and won't need any hardware for at least another year and maybe longer. Pretty much the only thing I will buy in the next year will be flavors since I DIY and am at 0mg nic. Let the savings begin......

 

[Stosh]

When you figure how much you spent, factor in how long the supplies you have will last...

If you bought 6 months of juice and cartos, figure how much 6 months of smokes cost.
For me smokes, for 6 months, carton a week so ~25 cartons X ~$75.00 +tax per carton = $$$$$$

 

[DSS61]

So glad to read that I am not the only one that made a few mistakes on my path to "enlightenment". I was quite the juice experimenter, trying to find that perfect juice, that perfect battery (have I found it yet?). Put out about $600 in not quite 3 months....but now I am set for quite some time. (9 batteries and what looks like a year's supply of juices ) Now's the time I get to start saving since I have finally gotten to the point where I have broken even with how much I would have spent on analogs.

 

[chevelle]

Since March of 2011, I have somewhere around $360 total invested in vaping. First month was about $160. This includes about $60 for the infamous Njoy Npro stuff. Saved some money by shopping around for the best deals and discounts on hardware. (Primarily Mad Vapes and Liberty Flights). Also started making DIY juice about 3 months into this whole thing. Saves serious money doing that. Shopped around for best prices on DIY supplies too.

Once I started using the eGo/Rivas I never felt the need to buy anything different. Completely satisfied with that rig. Built a homemade box mod once but don't use it much. A replacement battery occasionally, cartos and a bottle of PG, VG or flavoring (cheap!) and I'm set for a looooong time.

Frankly, I don't really care what it costs. If I had spent $2000, that would have been fine too. It has been instrumental in helping me end a 30 year addiction to cigarettes. Everyone is a little different in what makes them comfortable when breaking their slavery to cigs. Whatever it takes... Vape On!

 

[Balthezar]

It will take me a while to break even, but then I was smoking 2-3 'smokes' a day, so $106 doesn't sound like much, till you try to figure how long to break even. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining at all. I think even if I had spent $600 in the two weeks since I decided to try one, it would be well worth it.

 

[Uma]

My first month was probably the least expensive of all. (except during the 4-5 months I didn't shop at all).

60.00 (gosh, or was it 70 then?) New to the world and to me eGo kit from Janty.
10.00 (can't remember if it was 8 or 12, so I'll say 10) for an extra atty. (it came with 2, but good people alerted me to have spares)
40.00 (rounded off) for 4 bottles of juice. (back then they were all pricey and some still are).
20.00 for ship it here YESTERDAY service lol

Since then....
gosh, well, there's always these new gadgets to try, just for my eGo... plus new eGo's themselves in all their clones and flashing lights... then there's the mods with their even longer battery life ... mods with easy peasy juice delivery systems...
juice from everywhere (even the sample sizes add up!) .... this atty, that carto, this carto, that atty, .... tanks...
But, it's ALL at my LEISURE now... and I still haven't spent over what I would normally spend on tra....ional cigs.

 

[webmiztris]

I've noticed that you don't HAVE to spend much at all on this little "hobby", as long as you can CONTROL yourself. But it's easy to go crazy with all the little extras and upgrades you can buy and all the delicious e-liquid choices! I mean, you could buy an Ego starter kit for $60 and spend $10-$20 a month on juice and be done with it (minus buying new attys, etc., as they die), but once you join this forum it sucks you in and then you think, "Well, maybe I DO need to try cartomizers!" and "Wow, I'd really like to try THAT juice!". LOL Fortunately, I'm very happy with my Ego (one with/one without mega dual coil cartomizer), Ego XL/Mega and Ego-T and can keep my spending down to where it's much less than I spent on analogs...and I'm happy with that!

 

[Beans]

Thats it? My first month I bought $300 Green Smoke Kit, realized the cartos only lasted me an hour, bought $200 more in those stupid things. Oh wait that was the first 2 weeks. Week 3 found ECF bought an over priced "eGo" Riva from a local shop. $150 bucks then the "oh heck I need backs ups" asap and bought 2 more real eGo kits for $45 each online. And the juice shopping began

Believe it or not with $2000 + spent at this point in my journey, I'm breaking even My monthly expenditures are around $45 bucks a month. And thats only because I want to buy, not have to buy.

Honestly, I don't mind the debt. It saved my life and I'll never go back. It was worth every single penny!

 

[Balthezar]

I've noticed that you don't HAVE to spend much at all on this little "hobby", as long as you can CONTROL yourself. But it's easy to go crazy with all the little extras and upgrades you can buy and all the delicious e-liquid choices!

So true. I am trying to DIY my juices, so that saves a lot, too. VG for $2.50 for 177ml, nic 30 ml @36mg/ml for 7.95, and I'm going cheap on flavors, so far about $3 from walmart lol. The Joye 510 is working great so far, so I don't need the really expensive set-up (yet??).

 

[ruet]

My first month I spent $119. That includes a 808 kit from V4L, extra pre-filled cartomizers and extra batteries. In the six months I've been vaping I've spent an additional $376 on replacement batteries, blank cartos, e-juice and my first (and hopefully last) mod. I'm up $710 over analogs. I have my favored equipment sorted out so once I find a few go-to juices I assume my costs will be reduced even further. I attribute my frugal start directly to ECF.