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What Do You Value? Table Activity

● The decisions you made in the Bean Game were driven by your personal values and beliefs that come from a variety of sources. Read
the article to learn four types of “life values.” Complete the table on how each value can affect your money habits. Then, answer the
questions.

Life Value Effect on Money Habits

Inner People who have stronger inner values like to listen to the voice in their head when they are in a tight place
financially. People who have stronger feelings will use security to feel in charge and they can make more
confident financial decisions. This wouldn’t really effect my money habits because I just roll with things so I
wouldn’t listen to the “voice in my head”.

Social Family history can affect how we handle money. In adulthood some people may act out due to messages they got
while they were a child. Habits from an early age carry on to spending. This would affect my spending habits
because I am use to seeing something and usually I can get it (with the few exceptions). Since I am the only child
my paremts doesn’t have to spend money on any other children so It goes directly to me and only me. I am also
the only grandchild that lives near Milledgeville plus all the others are in collage so I am the “favorite”.

Physical Strong physical values desire quality. These people like craftsmanship and design. People with strong physical
values like to be protected with insurance, but they also spend more on self-care items. This would highly affect
my money habits because I enjoy self-care. I love putting on makeup, wearing fancy things, getting my nails and
hair done, etc.

Financial People with strong financial values keep money for later and like to save money. These people can be good
educators in the financial world. People who doesn’t value this value often don’t have money for later and are
often unprepared. This values is important to me because I save money for later so when I actually see something
I want and need I can use it.

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 1. Which life value do you believe has the biggest influence on how you view money?
Physical value.

2. From the answer you selected above, where do you believe you drew these influences from?
I like be comfortable and buy nice things. With physical values you care a lot about your appearance and heath, and I fall into that category.

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