Replying to Skiing the whole weekend

I live in Durham, 2 hours from Waterville.  That's the closest place for us to go that's still a legit place.  We definitely want to try to get up there for both days, but 8 hours of driving a weekend is a lot of driving.  There aren't any ski hostels near there that I know of.  I assume most places to stay are expensive, and we're in high school so we don't have much money to burn.  Sleeping in the car is always an option, but we don't want to do that every weekend.  I know this is probably going to go nowhere, but does anyone have experience with this or have an ideas?