You have $1,000 to live on for the month…can you do it?

Spent is an online game created by Urban Ministries of Durham that shows you just how hard it is to get by with limited resources.

It’s reminiscent of “chose your own adventure” books, which ask the reader to

make a choice at the end of each chapter to determine the direction of the story. Unlike the novels, in Spent, and in real life, you can’t switch to the other page if you don’t like the direction the story is going.