Build Your Own Skills - Resources
The Financial and Digital Literacy Training sections talked about what you need to know about where money comes from, what you can spend money on, making decisions about what to buy or what to save, and paying for things online and keeping your financial information safe.
Now you can use these tools and activities to practice on your own. This will help you build your own skills to manage your own money.
Information
Print these tools and keep them with you. You can use them in the future if you need to remember the information. You can write your own notes on your copy too!
- Where Does My Money Come From? – EZ Reader
- Where Does Money Go? – EZ Reader
- Making a Budget – EZ Reader
- Learning About Saving and Investing – EZ Reader
- Learning About Credit and Debt – EZ Reader
- Staying Safe Online – EZ Reader
Activities
You can print these activities and answer the questions in the spaces provided. Or write your answers on a paper, your cell phone or iPad. You can ask someone to help you, if you want.
- Identify and Understand Paystub
- Understanding Needs and Wants
- Build Your Own Budget
- Meeting Savings Goal
- The Cost of Credit
- Being Aware of What You Share – Online Safety
Tools
Print these tools and keep them with you. You can use them to keep the information and use it when you need to in the future.
Where Does Money Come From?
- Hourly Paycheck Calculator
- Salary Paycheck Calculator
- OOD Works
- Career Pathways Toolkit
- More Ohio Job Resources
- Know Your Benefits
- Know Your Paycheck (Video)
- List Your Income
Where Does Money Go?
Learn How to Budget
Saving and Investing
- Tips for Successful Saving
- How to Save Money: 23 Tips
- 8 Simple Ways to Save Money
- Why You Need An Emergency Fund (Video)
Manage Credit and Debt
- Credit Overview
- Credit Card Basics
- Using Your Credit Card (Video)
- Loans 101 (Video)
- Strategies to Avoid Getting in Debt
Staying Safe Online