fandomhigh | Home Economics; Friday, Second Period [01/21].

Thinking too much about yesterday had Ignis' head hurting quite a bit, so he was looking forward to today's lesson especially. Granted, he was already eager to get to it, far more eager than anyone should be regarding this topic, but a focus on order and tangible principles felt particularly welcome after yesterday's oddities and chaos.

"Good morning," Ignis greeted the class with a nod, "and welcome back. I hope you've all had a chance to explore last week's topic with a trip to Turtle & Canary to see about pursuing a grocery list, and I'd like to start today's class with a small discussion on how your ventures into shopping went, and what you may have learned or struggled with. Do I have any voluneers to begin?"

And after the last student who wished to share had gone, Ignis nodded again. "Excellent," he said. "Now, let us move on to our topic for today, which ties in very closely with last week's topic, and that is budgeting as a whole. Now, some of you may be thinking we're approaching this a bit backwards, that covering budgeting might have been more useful to you in the creation of your grocery lists, but I also thought that approaching it from this direction would give a unique perspective on where errors were made and where to fix them. After all, they say mistakes are often the best teacher, but don't let that out too much, or we may all be out of a job."

He took a moment to look terribly pleased at that joke before continuing. "So what is budgeting, anyway? Well, simply put, to make a budget is to manage your money and make a plan for how to best spend, save, and invest it to make the most out of it. For the purposes of ease and convenience, we will be mostly using standard American currency in our classes, but I do have a very helpful chart and conversion tables if anyone is interested or would like to work in a more familiar currency other than the one we use here on the island, by gracious courtesy of the Fandom Bank. So, with that said, let us begin..."

At which point he had reached the board, and the lecture began in earnest, with a great many figures and examples going up on the board as he detailed how one might approach budgeting from various different perspectives and style, as well as breaking down different methods of organizing, from good old pen and paper, the use of spreadsheets, and even the availability of apps that make budgeting a breeze for the more technologically savvy of home managers.

And, with that, he turned back to the students with a nod, gesturing slightly with his opened hands. "Let's take a moment," he said, "to put out any questions regarding budgeting you may have, and, once those are answered, hopefully, you will be ready to give it a try with these various worksheets for practice."

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Being financially responsible!

Liberty Hazlett

Kiem Tegnar

Josephine Jones

So, did you get a chance to ~~oh so handwavily~~ make it to the grocery store to explore your shopping list? How did it go? Did you run into some problems? Did you have to adjust your plans due to pricing or availability? What questions may have arisen that you didn't have answers to in the moment?

Jo considered her response to the assignment, “I found it …sometimes difficult to stick to a budget,” she revealed, “especially when I saw items that weren’t on my list and I didn’t need them but …” she looked rather sheepish, “I still bought a couple of extra items than I needed,”

She turned a bit red when she revealed that.

Knowing that quite a few of the others in the class were used to much bigger budgets than the one they were given, Libby tried to think of how to present her results without sounding like she was bragging or showing off, although, really, it was a bit of an odd thing to brag about, wasn't it, that you were used to be so poor that a budget this large made shopping a breeze, especially when you were doing it for just one person instead of seven?

"Most of my purchases went to a lot of stuff that could be stored or frozen," she pointed out, as she handed over her receipt, "but some fresh vegetables for the next few meals; the selection was really great, too, and I may have splurged a little by getting some of the nicer cuts of meat. Oh! And the strawberries looked so good that I decided to splurge a little on those, which is usually a bit of a waste, them not being in season and all, but I figured it wouldn't hurt, this being all pretend and everything, and I did have some room for it."

She almost hadn't known what to do with all that budget, if she was honest, and already felt a little embarrassed for having spent as much as she had on what she'd pretended to get!

"It actually went rather well," Guillermo said brightly, he was used to having to stick to a budget and even a pretend shopping trip had still proven rather successful, "I was actually able to save some money off a few items so I was even under budget," he was actually rather proud of that.

Ignis's coverage of the topic is nothing if not thorough, and he clearly had no intention of stopping until that board was absolutely filled with info, examples, charts and details, and the hopeful glint in his eyes behind his glasses when he finally did turn around and ask for questions made it clear that he really could go on and would be terribly pleased to have the opportunity to do so.

Jo was trying to follow along but anything remotely connected to math she struggled with and she stared rather blankly at all the different charts.

Sorry Ignis, she had questions but
it was going to take a moment before she even knew where to begin to ask.

There are examples provided in the link, but other versions are completely moddable, as you have the chance to work on your budget worksheets! Asking for help from teacher or your fellow students and working with them is encouraged, as well!

Libby had to grin a little bit, because this was practically the same as what she worked on back at home, so she could hack out a budget lickey-split, no problem! Some of these worksheets were a little more complex than what she was used to (and some of them more simple, since she work on accounting worksheets for business, too!), so she challenged herself with some of the conversion stuff with other types of currency.

And maybe, every so often, she looked around to see if anyone might need help, because that was almost second nature, too, helping the Littles when she knew they had trouble, although it was probably a little different, helping your peers and classmates, and now she wondered if she shouldn't, because they might just think she was trying to show off or think they weren't as clever.

He can almost feel the tension that yesterday caused melting off of him with each and every precise, ordered, predictable detail of today's lesson.

My brain decided to take a break halfway through yesterday and then decided to just not come back online again at ALL, apparently.

Also, I thought my computer just straight up DIED on me halfway through writing radio, but, no, thankfully, the charging cord had just not been plugged in last night when I thought it was and it just had no battery. XD

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