Using picture cards and toy banknotes makes budgeting and prioritising easier. For example, give a daily income to each group using toy banknotes, and 5 or 6 cards of usual expenses (various food, clothes, soap) and ask them to choose how to spend their income. Then give them one or two cards representing monthly or yearly commitments (rent,…
Bopha is married and has two children. She grows vegetables and makes baskets. Today, Bopha wakes up first, prepares the breakfast. She checks how much money she has left. She gives some to her children. Once they are off to school, she picks up vegetables, takes her baskets and goes to the market. After selling…
Last November we triggered a long silence in our usually lively training room using cards printed on both sides (like the one displayed here): university students had just done their first draft budget… and it was not balanced. So how would they find the money? No problem – they could ask friends, or their parents,…
Blue or black pen? Rice or noodle? Most of our decisions are not rational. When we choose something, we often let the intuitive part of our brain decide. We don’t make rational decisions for each little thing in our lives…but most of them impact our wallet. We just buy without deep thinking. If your financial…