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<li><p>How worth it is it to deposit money into a CityBucks account? Did you end up using it often, and do a lot of places in Collegetown and Ithaca accept it? </p></li>
<li><p>How much money do you recommend putting into a laundry account for one semester? I'm aiming to do laundry once every two weeks.</p></li>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>i would say most frosh arent on citybux</p>
<p>many times when they come back from a late night party frosh just hit up nasties (open until 2am on weekdays and 3am on fri and sat) using their BRB</p>
<p>Laundry Account - ~approx 2 loads every two weeks, wash and dry </p>
<p>$50, give or take a couple cents. I hope this lasts you the whole semester.</p>
<p>i wonder what the laundry prices are this year…</p>
<p>last i remember it was 150 for wash?</p>
<p>Like $1.50? How much does drying cost? That seems fairly expensive…</p>
<p>$1.55 for a load for wash, $1.55 for a load for laundry - so total, wash + dry = $3.10/load.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>Is a set of laundry is generally 2 loads or 1 if you do it every 2 weeks? </p>
<p>I would imagine 2 if you do the sheets and such.</p>
<p>This is important…DO NOT add too much money to either of these accounts in advance. If you have left over money at the end of the year (or even possibly semester) it will not be returned to you and will be absorbed by Cornell. Wait until you’ve settled in and figure out how much you need to do laundry and how often you will go home and do it there. It’s better to add money every once in a while than lose it because you didn’t use it. The City Bucks are basically cash…but easy to use in college town. Laundry is a lot harder to use in order to run down the account.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, starbound!</p>
<p>you can add money to your laundry and citybux from dining.cornell everytime you need it…</p>
<p>I’ve been trying to log in here <a href=“https://card.campuslife.cornell.edu/[/url]”>https://card.campuslife.cornell.edu/</a> to add money to my laundry account, but I can’t get in. Am I in the right place? Is it just too early to log in?</p>
<p>Nevermind, didn’t realize that we have to create a new account!</p>
<p>do you have to use a laundry account or can you just pay with realy money?</p>
<p>You have to use a laundry account. You swipe your card in the laundry room and it takes the money from your laundry account (easier than needing rolls of quarters, I think!).</p>
<p>number of loads depends on if you separate your whites from your colors from your jeans (which i did, so i had ~3 loads every time for the wash and ~1-2 for the dryer since i don’t dry my pants/jeans/certain sweaters, and i did that every 1.5-2 weeks)</p>
<p>i only washed my sheets and towels once a month since i had 2 sets and would alternate and then wash it all at once, since one set isn’t enough for a whole load and it wastes a lot of water.</p>
<p>you can pay with cash at the service center to load your card with money (if you dont want to post CC info on their server)</p>
<p>I ended up adding $25 and charged it to the bursar bill. We’ll see how long it lasts me and I’ll just go from there.</p>
<p>Just seems silly to have yet one more account. And if you can charge it to your bursar bill, why not just have it show up as a charge on the bursar bill each time you swipe your card?</p>
<p>i think because the laundry system specifically uses this system. </p>
<p>but if not…you fill it’s because cornell loves red tape :)</p>
<p>heck you cant even get finaid and bursar to work together even though they’re housed in the same building on campus D:</p>