Student Dorm Budget Planner
Your money for the term: costs, and what you can spend each week and each day so it lasts.
Student dorm budget by Envelo TermPurse: your money for the term, your costs, and what you can spend each week and each day so the money lasts to the last day.
A scholarship, a loan or money from home comes once – and the dorm, the meal plan and the books take a big part of it right away. What is left has to last the whole term. TermPurse turns it into a simple week and day amount, and as the weeks go by it shows whether your pace lasts.
Try it here
A live demo with a made-up example. Nothing you type here is saved or sent anywhere.
What it does
What you can do
- Add your term dates and the money you have: once, every month or every week (scholarship, loan, money from home, a job)
- Add your costs the same way: tuition, dorm, meal plan, books, phone, bus pass, laundry
- See what is left to live on, and what you can spend a week and a day
- Write down what you spend by date – each spending goes to its week of the term
- Week by week: what you could spend, what you spent, the difference and the running total, with a chart
- Your pace: the week the money runs out if you go on like this, and what to spend a week from now on so it lasts
- Print or save as PDF, CSV in and out, backup and restore
Example inside
A made-up first-year student in a dorm, four weeks into a 17-week term: a scholarship, money from home every month and a library job every week, against a dorm room, a meal plan, books and monthly bills. 2,192 is left to live on – 128.94 a week, 18.42 a day. After four weeks the pace is 144.63 a week, so the money would run out in week 16. From now on 124.11 a week makes it last.
How it works
- Download the ZIP and START-HERE.pdf from Etsy after checkout.
- Unzip and open Envelo-TermPurse.html in your web browser. Look at the filled example, then press My numbers.
- Add your term dates, your money in and your costs. Then add what you spend as you go. Everything updates as you type and saves in your browser.
What you receive
- START-HERE.pdf (0.12 MB)
- Envelo-TermPurse-v1.0.zip (1.70 MB)
Inside the ZIP:
- Envelo-TermPurse.html: the app, opens in your browser by double click and works offline, 11 languages
- Envelo-TermPurse.xlsx: spreadsheet edition with a 10-language switch – money in, costs, up to 200 spending rows and up to 40 weeks
- Envelo-TermPurse-Arabic.xlsx: the same spreadsheet in Arabic, right to left
- examples/: the filled example as a backup file and the example lists as CSV
- START-HERE/: the guide in 11 languages
- LICENSES.txt and WHAT_YOU_GET.txt
Good to know
- This is a digital download. Nothing is shipped.
- No subscription and no account. The app runs on your device and uploads nothing.
- TermPurse works with the numbers you enter. It does not pay anything or connect to a bank. It is a planning tool, not financial advice.
- Your numbers do not sync between devices; move them with the backup file.
- For your own use. Please don't resell or share the files.
- The app, its logo, the texts and the translations were made as code with the help of an AI coding assistant. No AI image generators were used.
A closer look
Buy it on Etsy and download the files straight away.