Livingston County 4-H partnered with Livingston County Family First, Livingston County Middle School, and a 7th-grade host teacher to provide the Dollars and Sense and the Reality Store program. 7th-grade students participated in three days of Dollars and Sense instruction on financial wellness, planning, and management. They were able to play games that taught the importance of budgeting and participated in activities that helped showcase the “real world” cost. At the conclusion of the three-day classroom instruction they participated in the single-day Reality Store Showcase. For this, community partners and volunteers hosted booths that displayed the different spending categories; food, clothing, childcare, furniture, car payments, and many others. Students were able to choose their profession and received a paycheck that is reflective of the standard monthly income for their profession. They then received real checkbooks, went to the bank booth to cash their paycheck, and started making informed decisions about how and where they wanted to spend their money. Most were able to complete the showcase with some leftover money in their budget, while others had to make several adjustments to finish out their required monthly costs.