It was a busy day for Lima Senior High School seniors as they got a taste of life after high school. Students were given a career, a salary, a spouse, and some even got children. Then they had to live. They had to budget for housing, utilities, child care, transportation, and more. The program "Real Money—Real World" is put on by Superior Credit Union and the Ohio State University Extension to provide an interactive way of showing how budget and lifestyle choices can affect your bottom line.

Superior Credit Union and the Ohio State University Extension Office invited students from all the Putnam County schools to learn about financial education. The students were assigned a job and a salary, and they had to figure out how to spend that money wisely while paying for cars, homes, and children. Plus, they also learned some tricks to reduce expenses, like being active to reduce health care costs.