exactly! who needs a study?!
isn't it just common sense that someone who can afford to take a sick day when they have the flu will be happier than someone who has to drag themselves into work because they can't afford to lose the money?
isn't someone who knows that they can pay for their child to have decent medical help happier than one who can't?
I know most would be happier if they could afford:
college education for kids, opposed to not.
decent house, opposed to not.
heat, opposed to not.
a car that doesn't leave you stranded, opposed to not.
the knowledge that you can retire when the time comes and not have to choose between food or meds.
money buys alot of happiness and alot of piece of mind. It reduces your stress and allows a person to take care of themselves in a way that most can't.
I always look to the long time rich and famous....isn't it funny how most of them live to be in their 90's and playing golf right up to the end??
Money does buy happiness....what it CAN'T buy is LOVE.
Oh, but it does buy lovin'... :P
They noted that in one study, people with household incomes of $90,000 or more were only slightly more likely to call themselves "very happy" overall than were people from households making $50,000 to $89,999.
In most areas of the country, people making $50,000 or more can pay all of their bills, unless they are being totally unrealistic about what they can afford.
Money doesn't buy happiness - learning to live within your means does.
Drapes are over-rated, except for cat toys.
And when I walk into the house today, everybody loves me and wants to eat, and wants new drapes.
Life is good. It's just like being married, except for the honey-do list.
/johnny