DIGITAL STORIES FOR CHANGE

BY: CASSIE BARGER AND MALORY SNYDER

FAMILY FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN AMERICAFrom: Pleasant Hill High School Pleasant Hill, MissouriRegion 12Summary-Ways to save on family needs

that everyone has.

Groceries $500/weekly $2,000/monthly

$24,000/yearly

Fast Food $25/weekly $250/monthly $3,000/yearly

Shopping $100/weekly $400/monthly $4,800/yearly

Alcohol and Drug

$27/weekly$15-30/weekly

$108/monthly$60-120/monthly

$1,296/yearly$720-1,440/yearly

House and Car $475/weekly$150/weekly

$1,900/monthly$600/monthly

$22,800/yearly$7,200/yearly

Cell Phone $45/weekly $180/monthly $2,160/yearly

Credit Card $20/weekly $80/monthly $8,000/yearly

Traveling $40-$80/week for gas

$160-320/monthly

$1,920-3,840/

Entertainment $112.50/weekly $450/monthly $5,400/yearly

Family of four

Total of everything.

$79,376-$83,939

FCCLA Planning Process Worksheet

IDENTIFY CONCERNSThere are number of families that are spending too much; from everyday shopping to buying things that they really don’t need. Like brand new cars multi-million dollar houses and clothes. We want to help lower how much people spend and maybe get people out of debt.

SET A GOALMalory Snyder and I, Cassie Barger, want to lower how much people are spending on things that they really don’t need. If we can some way change one family’s spending habit then we think we have done our job.

FORM A PLAN•Who: Cassie Barger and Malory Snyder •What: lowering one family’s debt•When: From November through January. •Where: We will doing this at our high school. Working every day to finish this project. • Why: To lower families debts that they might have. •How: By showing this power point that we made. We hope that they will get something from it.

ACTWe were able to get the power point done on time and have someone look at it. Malory and I have each started spending less as we worked on this project. We did not get things that we did not need and we did not buy the name brand foods. We did not eat out as often either.

FOLLOW UPIf we had to redo this project then we think we would start sooner than we did. We would have stayed on tracked a lot more to. If we did do this again then we would work harder and longer on this project.

CREDITS http://www.radford.va.us/library/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/board_games1.jpghttp://www.daveramsey.com/article/the-truth-about-credit-card-debt/