"What is 'appiness? 'xcuse? What was the question again?!!"
Posted on 03/05/2010 12:53:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge
If you're trying to buy happiness, you'd be better off putting your money toward a tropical island get-away than a new computer, a new study suggests.
The results show that people's satisfaction with their life-experience purchases — anything from seeing a movie to going on a vacation — tends to start out high and go up over time. On the other hand, although they might be initially happy with that shiny new iPhone or the latest in fashion, their satisfaction with these items wanes with time.
The findings, based on eight separate studies, agree with previous research showing that experience-related buys lead to more happiness for the consumer. But the current work provides some insight into why.
Among the reasons:
* People are more likely to mull over their material purchases than they are experiential ones, second-guessing themselves about whether they really made the best choice.
* We tend to think of experiences more on their own terms, rather than in comparison with other things.
* It's easier for us to decide on an experiential purchase than a material one.
* We're more upset if we learn that someone else got a better deal, or that a better option exists, for a material purchase than for an experience-related one.
Satisfaction with a purchase could also come down to mindset. When participants in one study thought of material purchases, such as a music CD, as an experience (many hours of enjoyable listening), they were more satisfied than those who viewed the purchase as just a material item.
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What is "HaPPiNe$$", My Capitatalistic FRiends?
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"What is 'appiness? 'xcuse? What was the question again?!!"
I’m more happier in what I’m going to do than I am in what I already did.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
— Margaret Runbeck
It’s just too bad that a lot of what we do that makes us happy requires having stuff.
Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves.
It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire.
Happiness is something we are.
— John B. Sheerin
I’m very happy with what I’ve done and the stories I can tell. I’m content with what I have.
Help me out, I forgot her name.
Isn’t she about a hundred years old now?
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
Bang bang shoot shoot.
Give Me Cuchi Cuchi!!!
If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy people?
I can assure them that my happiness about my Corvette has not waned with time. LOL
sometimes happiness is stuff :-D and lots of it or maybe just one really nice, expensive Gucci, Prada bag, or maybe just a brand new Porsche. Depends on the day and the time. I still smile when I see my pink Coach bag I purchased over a year ago. Happiness is a brand new very expensive handbag. LOL.
Allow me to recommend Negril, Jamaica, WI.
While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
Charo.
She’s 59.
Me too!
I have never done the Jamaican thing, always cruised in and out quick.. probably a good thing for me. I hear it gets pretty uhh.. Jamaican. ;-)
And, where that misery will take place. ;-)
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