Hello, my name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the Jesse Meekam show,

and I'm here each week to obsess how loud about your spending purposefully, saving, aspirational,

and giving. Oh, so joyfully. It all comes down to just one tiny little question. And today,

I will talk about a tiny little nine-year-old girl and this question that we were asking and

answering for her. I set up my daughter, Fay, her i don't know months and months ago um we usually do it when

they're eight with her we did it a little later i'm not sure why but she's been starting to earn some

money so back in the middle of the summer we did the whole exercise and you guys know how i like

to do it i like to line up all the categories and just pepper them like you. And you guys know how I like to do it. I like

to line up all the categories and just pepper them like, you want this, you want this, you want this.

And then they start to fill the tradeoffs. And you start to see the understanding happen in their

eyes. We have them tied. We have them save. And then everything else is basically what you and I,

we adults, would call fun money. But it's nine-year-old categories.

My favorite category for her with a skull crossbones emoji is the poison category, and that is

for her snacks at the gas station. And she got that for me. So she had a big ticket item on there from months ago, an electric bike.

And man, had this little girl been talking about it a lot.

She had shown me the model she was going to buy.

She had price shopped it a little bit.

She knew how much shipping and taxes was going to be.

She knew exactly how much the entire purchase would take.

We set it up in Wynab.

We set up a category. And I just said, okay, Faye, if you put away this much each month,

by this day, I can't remember the day, you'll have enough for the electric bike. And she was just kind of like, really? Whoa. Something like that's out of her reach. And don't we all feel that way about some purchases

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