<p>Can any current students give an estimate of around how much spending money we should be bringing?</p>
<p>$200 a term should cover you for eating in town once in a while, an occasional piece of clothing from the Gap or Co-op, and a few trips to the co-op food store. </p>
<p>Only Hanover High kids make it a point to shop at the insanely expensive boutiques (I think Bella and Julianna's are their names). Dartmouth women tend to be more ashamed than proud of purchasing their $70 t-shirts. </p>
<p>Make sure to convince your parents to put some money on your Dash account to cover laundry, $3 tickets at the hop, and the occasional late-night bake-sale in Novack or on Frat Row.</p>
<p>If you're looking to not spend much, you can certainly spend less than $100 a term w/o too much trouble IF you don't include DA$H (and even if you do shouldn't be too hard). On the other hand, it's easy to spend way more if you do other things, like play a round or two at the Hanover Country Club, go skiing in the winter at the Skiway or other locales, or want to visit boston via the Dartmouth Coach.</p>
<p>So, basically, you can get by w/o too much trouble on $1-200 a term ... but you may or may not want more. Completely depends on you.</p>
<p>Personally, I usually spend a little under $200 a term.</p>
<p>Thanks!
That's really helpful.</p>
<p>Maybe it's just me, but I spend well over that...</p>
<p>And I really don't spend very extravagantly.</p>
<p>I met one freshman at Dimensions who claimed he hadn't spent any money besides a single dinner at Molly's. (I don't think he was counting laundry money, or anything included in your room/board like Greenprint, dining dollars.)</p>
<p>I think you tend to spend more later. I spent on booze, the occasional dinner outside, and some other things like clothes and travel. Also laundry stuff, toothpaste, gas, etc. I would say more than 200 a term, more like 3-400. But probably less my first year.</p>
<p>Barring things like toiletries, laundry and various sundry items. I think that you really don't need a lot of $$ to get by in Hanover. Even if you were to go out to an occassional dinner, that is very reasonably priced. I think that you will spend a little more if you become part of the greek system (which D footed the bill for her dues and probably spent $$ for formal clothes), if you ski (which I paid for). </p>
<p>It was our experience that between her summer earnings and an on campus job she had enough $$ to tide her over and rarely asked for $$ (I paid transportation costs to come home for thanksgiving, and breaks but even as far as short weekend trips she was able to swing that on her own).</p>
<p>i would say most people spend more than $200, i was just saying that it is definitely possible to stay under that figure. it completely depends how dependent you choose to be on what Dartmouth provides for you. </p>
<p>I know if I were less strapped for cash, I would definitely spend more than that $200, probably in the $3-400 range ... but I think I definitely spent less fresh. yr.</p>
<p>Wow, I guess I was one of the frugal ones....A few loads of laundry, a few meals off campus, a few Hop performances and DOC trips, and I was in the $50-75 range.</p>
<p>Maybe it makes a difference if you have a car. I couldn't go anywhere, thus I couldn't buy anything outside of Hanover.</p>
<p>Yeah car is all the difference in the world. Gas, road trip money, trips to leb, etc definitely make you spend more. (And totally worth it in my opinion!) The reality is, however, that Dartmouth is an incredibly inexpensive place to go to school in terms of non-tuition/ housing spending.</p>
<p>Winter term I spent outrageous amounts of money on unnecessary food and expensive fruit juice from the Coop; don't do that. Spring term I saved almost $1,000 by working 10-12 hours a week and barely spending anything (laundry, minimal shopping, rare dinners out with the Boy). It's paying for my Starbucks habit now that I'm off on an internship. </p>
<p>You really don't spend any money in Hanover (DA$H excluded) unless you go out of your way to do so. Returning to D.C., where I grew up, for my leave term, I was horrified by how expensive everything seemed in comparison.</p>