What factors influenced your decision whether or not to buy a particular item?

What other variable expenses would you want to buy that weren’t included in this game?

How would you categorize the different types of variable expenses that came up during this activity?

Do you think it impacted your decisions to write down the item’s cost whenever you bought something? Why or why not?

Which of the variable costs were necessities?

If you were going to play the game again, how would you change your approach? Why?

How might this game be different if you had a very limited income? What if you had a variable income?

If students had different starting budgets: How did your experience in this game compare to a classmates’?