Gifting Sense: Lifelong Financial Literacy Begins With Simple Consumer Decisions

In this webinar, you’ll experience firsthand how thinking before buying is an easy-to-teach, powerful, and sticky life skill – and see it applied in ways that will surprise you.  This session goes further than ever before.  You’ll calculate three full DIMS – DOES IT MAKE SENSE?® Scores live — for a toy, a pro sports ticket, and a first car. The First Car DIMS SCORE® Calculator is the newest permissionless, mindful-spending tool developed by Gifting Sense. No registration, no login, no paywall. Just kids working on a problem that actually matters to them, in real time: Should I buy this item or experience?

The habit of pausing, gathering information, and reflecting scales naturally across every age and price tag; watching it work on a ticket and a first car makes the whole framework click in a way that stays with students long after class ends.

You’ll see precisely how to guide students through each step of the way, and why early wins with thinking before buying inspire young people to seek out the more sophisticated financial knowledge they’ll need later in life — when it becomes relevant and valuable.

Which is how mindful spending builds lasting financial literacy. Once students realize they can gather and use even a little financial know-how to positively shape their future, curiosity takes over — and they want more financial knowledge.

Teaching the Pause Through the Years slides (Gifting Sense)