Hello, my name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the Jesse Meekam show where I obsess out loud each week about spending purposefully, saving, aspirational, and giving

joyfully. It all comes down to just giving every dollar a job. I've paid off my house twice,

two different houses, two different times. I saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest.

I now own the home. I live in free and clear. And if I could,

I would take it all back. Here's me trying to figure out why. First, I wrote on a note card

back when I was 25 that I wanted to pay off my house, own my home free and clear by the time

I was 30. At that time, I was renting an apartment. Had no idea how I would

pull it off. And I did. Got lucky with a few things. I mean, got lucky, worked hard, flipped some things

back in the day when you could buy and sell websites if you want to know the honest truth,

and ended up with a little bit of cash just enough to pay off the home we were living.

It was our first home.

And when I paid it off, like made the final payment, it was a bit of a lump payment.

I think it was something like 30 grand.

I don't know.

The details are murky.

But it wasn't just like one final mortgage payment of, gosh, was our mortgage,

I think our mortgage was like $1,300 a month. Oh, the glory it is. And paid it off.

Didn't feel terribly different. What did we do with the money? Unlike most people that say,

well, I would invest the difference and then they actually don't I did I

invested the difference for a good long while I actually can't remember not rolling that back

so that was interesting then we decided eight years later we were going to move and we bought

another house and we got a mortgage for that home and i paid that

...