Hello, my name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the Jesse Meekam show, and I'm here each week to obsess out loud about spending purposefully, saving aspirationally, and giving joyfully.

It all comes down to just giving every dollar a job, thinking hard about what you want your money to do.

And I'll be honest, I do think hard about what I want my money to do.

And I often think what my younger self would think about how my older self now thinks about that money.

I do recall not owning a computer in college.

Actually got married before I owned a computer.

And that's not the order you're supposed to do things in, but we did it and it worked out okay for me and Julie.

But I do remember thinking that that computer purchase was just unbelievably big.

That's just the big time.

We had hit the big time.

And I remember working through the Dell website, just picking and choosing exactly what

this laptop. It was probably this thick what it was

going to be um and now i mean honestly i'll shoot straight with you all i have a pretty good macbook

sitting here in front of me and i thought to myself wouldn't it be nice to have a more dedicated

machine that wasn't a laptop that just sat here,

plugged up and ready to go? And I did not think at all about the fact that that would mean I had two

computers instead of one. When my kids, for the bejillionth time, left a computer on the ground. And one of them, for the bigillionth time, a computer on the ground and one of them for the

bigillionth time took a step and that step went out of a bagillion landed on the

computer and made a big black mark go down the middle of it I'll bet you're

thinking oh Jesse's gonna say he just went out and bought another computer for those kids because they need that computer for school, but you would be wrong. I did not do that. I let them use the same computer because I've told them countless times you don't leave computers on the floor. So I don't care how many computers you own and how easy it is for you to own computers, you don't leave a computer on the floor.

So they work around it by having their window all shove to one side. And they're basically working on half a laptop.

And when I see it, I smile inside. But my younger self, thinking we, what, we have four or five i don't even know chrome books coming out our

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