Observed arrival · 2026-08-20
Kitchen Table: the other side of the desk
A free household-finance simulation where you make eight consequential decisions across two years, using someone else’s wages, prices, family, and money.
Why it surfaced
Four households put financial choices into lived context, from a 1979 Ohio plant family facing a house purchase to a Missouri grocery worker whose schedule changes every week. Play two scenarios and the site compares the decisions side by side—an unusually humane way to learn what money choices can do.
A free household-finance simulation where you make eight consequential decisions across two years, using someone else’s wages, prices, family, and money.
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