Income Cards

Picture description: A tree with money bags hanging from the branches with dollar signs on the bags.

·        Full-time: Large tech business owner
    +$160

·        Full-time: Construction business owner
    +$140

·        Full-time: Cyber security consultant
    +$130

·        Full-time: Nurse
    +$120

·        Full-time: Video game programmer
    +$110

·        Full-time: School teacher
    +$90

·        Full-time: Froyo shop manager
    +$60

·        Part-time: Bookkeeper
    +$50

·        Part-time: Online craft business owner
    +$40

Financial Priorities

Giving:

Picture description: A hand reaching out, offering a heart that is floating over it.

·        You generously donate 10% of your income
    A -$10

·        You generously donate 10% of your income
    A -$20

Savings (Type #1):

Picture description: A piggy bank overflowing with coins and surrounded by piles of coins.

·        Financial goal: You pay 10% towards savings
    B -$10

·        Financial goal: You pay 10% towards savings
    B -$20

Savings (Type #2):

Picture description: A road curving off toward the mountains in the distance with a road sign saying “debt free” and an arrow indicating to follow the road.

·        Financial goal: You pay extra to reduce your debt
    B -$10

·        Financial goal: You pay extra to reduce your debt
    B -$20

Essential Expenses:

Picture description: A two-story house with bushes, surrounded by 4 icons: a fork & a knife, a car, a lightning bolt and droplets of water.

·        Food, utilities, shelter, and transportation.
    C -$40

·        Food, utilities, shelter, and transportation.
    C -$50

·        Food, utilities, shelter, and transportation.
    C -$60

·        Food, utilities, shelter, and transportation.
    C -$70

Important Expenses:

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·        Insurance, debt payments, household products, school supplies, etc.
    D -$20

·        Insurance, debt payments, household products, school supplies, etc.
    D -$30

·        Insurance, debt payments, household products, school supplies, etc.
    D -$40

·        Insurance, debt payments, household products, school supplies, etc.
    D -$50

Additional Expense:

Picture description: A hand is holding a wallet with a receipt rolling out of it.

·        Eating out
    E -$10

·        Personal spending cash
    E -$10

·        Attend pro basketball game
    E -$20

·        Three days at an amusement park
    E -$30

·        New gaming console
    E -$30

Windfall Cards

Picture description: Many coins falling from clouds in the sky.

·        Wild card: Use for any financial priority in categories C, D, or E up to a value of -$30 (-$10, -$20, -$30).
    -10:-30

·        Ultra Wild card: Use for any income or financial priority category (A-E) with values up to +$30 (income) or down to -$30 (financial priority).

·        If you have a giving in your budget, use this as a “just say no” card for any life happens or bounce back card played on you.

·        If you have a Savings card in your budget, use this as a “just say no” card for any Life Happens or Bounce Back card played on you.

·        Good fortune for great budgeting. You paid off a debt! Remove any Life Happens card from your budget.

·        Bounce Back: This bounces the action of the card played on you back to the person who played the card.

Life Happens Cards

Picture description: A piggy bank jaggedly split down the middle with coins falling out of it.

·        Budget breaker: Lose one budget card of any category chosen by the person who plays this card.

·        Fell prey to an online scam! This card disrupts the last card played, sends it to the draw pile, and ends your turn. Playable at any time.

·        Lost your job. Remove your highest paying job (not businesses) from your budget.

·        Business sales drop. If you own a business, place this card in your budget and decrease business income by half.
    *1/2

·        Chose not to give. Remove your Giving card from your budget.

·        Used emergency funds to pay for a vacation. Remove the Savings card from your budget. If you do not have one, add this expense to your budget.
    -$30

·        Purchased a new 75-inch 4K smart TV on credit. Add this to your budget.
    -$20

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