The Allowance Adventure
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The videos

Watch them in order if you can — each one picks up where the last one left off. At the end of every video there is a game, so you can have a go yourself.

  1. Video 1 · 2:08 Budgeting Roundy gets ten whole dollars and spends every last cent in two minutes — on five scoops, a balloon, and a squeaky rubber duck. Then she remembers the book fair is tomorrow. Fifi shows her the trick grown-ups use: two jars, labelled SAVE and SPEND, filled before any money gets spent. Watch this one →
  2. Video 2 · 3:38 Banking — Safe and Sound Roundy has saved a hundred bajillion coins and lost most of them in the carpet. Fifi takes her to a bank — a giant, super-safe piggy bank that's still entirely hers. Then comes the debit card, and the day it says DECLINED in the middle of the toy store. Watch this one →
  3. Video 3 · 2:28 Interest — Money That Grows! Roundy's balance says thirty dollars and ten cents, and she is certain a coin ghost is involved. It's interest: the bank's thank-you for leaving your money alone. Leave more in, for longer, and the pile grows — like planting one coin and watching it sprout. Watch this one →
  4. Video 4 · 4:20 Debt & Loans — Pay It Back! The Great Glittery Dragon of Destiny costs twenty dollars. Roundy has eleven. Fifi lends her the difference — but only with a plan attached, because borrowed money isn't free money. And when you borrow from a bank, that lovely interest flips around and points at you. Watch this one →
  5. Video 5 · 6:04 Investing — Make Your Money Work! Interest is too slow for Roundy, who has been staring at her balance for three hours. So she buys a five-dollar share of Rouck's lemonade stand. Then it rains for a week and her share is worth three. This one is about what you do next. Watch this one →
  6. Video 6 · 5:43 Emergency Funds — Save for a Surprise! A scooter wheel goes clunk, and Roundy's SPEND jar contains one dollar and a button. She's ready to sell her share or borrow again — until Fifi introduces a jar you fill before you know what it's for. Five weeks later, a dragon goes in the pond. Watch this one →
  7. Video 7 · 6:01 Credit Cards — Borrowing in Your Pocket! A kid taps a gold card and walks out with a walrus the size of a couch. Roundy wants a card that never says no. Fifi explains the trickiest one yet: a credit card doesn't spend your money, it borrows the bank's — and then the bill comes to visit. Watch this one →
  8. Video 8 · 8:06 Taxes — The Gremlin Who Takes a Bite! Two dollars are missing from the lemonade cash box, and Roundy has a magnifying glass and a suspect: a small money-nibbling gremlin in a tiny hat. She's not entirely wrong. Then Fifi makes her follow him, and it turns out he's been out there building swing sets. Watch this one →
  9. Video 9 · 8:24 Credit Scores — Your Money Reputation! Rouck won't lend Roundy his scooter, and it's because of a jump rope returned eleven days late with a knot in it. Turns out grown-ups have the same thing, with a number stapled to it. Roundy decides to start building hers at eight years old. Watch this one →

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