<p>I plan on using my card to do laundry. do I NEED to add money to use it, or can I just use it and have it automatically bill my CARS account?</p>
<p>The cal1card is like a debit card not a credit card.</p>
<p>You need to have some initial money on the card before you can use it. You can use CARS to put money onto the card and then use the card to do laundry but not the other way around.</p>
<p>if we only use our cal1 card for laundry. How much do you think we should put on it?</p>
<p>Also if i put say.. 200 on it... does the money stay there until i graduate? or... umm we gotta use them up before the end of the year.</p>
<p>Oh and about cal1card and mealpoints...</p>
<p>when we swipe to eat...does it get deducted from the actual money we have on there as a debit card...or are our mealpoints pre-added onto there and that's what gets deducted?</p>
<p>If you have the Units, you automatically pay for it with your housing costs. There's an exception, but it's for one of the other dorms...</p>
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Also if i put say.. 200 on it... does the money stay there until i graduate? or... umm we gotta use them up before the end of the year.
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it stays until you graduate.</p>