Money can buy happiness

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It's something people don't like admitting but it's true Just read the Being poor is thread has left me in no doubt that yes money can buy happiness. Not talking vast amounts but enough to take care of daily needs .
Being poor sucks 😔

Yes. I lost DH last year . It's horrible, absolutely awful, but I can't begin to imagine what it would be like to be also dealing with financial hardship . Having a bit of cash means I've been able to throw money at those problems that can be solved that way. It doesn't help with everything, but it certainly reduces the number of difficulties I'm facing.

Most things, heat, roof ,food aside are a state of mind.

I've never met anyone care free.

Some very secure people think they are poor, and live in misery. Some poor people live jolly happy loving lives.
The poorest members of my family had the most loving happy family who all took turns to take time out of work to nurse their sick elderly parents and all rallied around youngest children so they didn't have to go into care either.
Rhe second richest has the most blissful life! They were also great fun.
The most wealthy are absolutely the most miserable people I've ever met.

For us I know what it feels like to have basic savings to buy a boiler if needed.

The peace of mind of that!

Money doesn't just buy 'stuff 'it buys choice . If I start hating my job I'll just leave . Out the blue mums dog needed a £6k operation . I paid and was happy to be able to do so .

It's a peace of mind that whatever goes wrong eg the car breaks down you can just repair or buy another .

Money doesn't buy happiness but it sure makes the ride easier .

I know some very well off people who are deeply unhappy. All they do is chase money, buying bigger houses and more cars, but their lives are just empty with no deeper meaning or purpose.

Money doesn't buy happiness otherwise rich people wouldn't get divorced

I'm not sure that's true. It gives them the freedom to more easily leave an unhappy marriage?

It’s we’ll documented (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs)…if you can’t fulfil the basics then the things that lead to fulfilling higher needs are no use to you.

God, money buys loads of happiness

And for the person who said rich people get divorced - plenty of divorced people are happy

Money can't buy you happiness but a lack of it can certainly make you miserable as evidenced by the other thread. I'm sure there are lots of miserable rich people. They are just unhappy for different reasons.

It’s dependent on a number of factors, surely?

If I was unhappy in my marriage then money wouldn’t make up for that, but it would if I was unhappy in my marriage because of the stressors of being poor.

A lot of the things I like to do require money to do them, so in that respect yes, money does buy happiness. I also find happiness in being secure and not having to worry about paying bills, being able to afford my house etc, so yes, I suppose money enables me to be happy in that way too.

I think it buys you choices. Although it would buy me a horse which = happiness so...

And money means you can get divorced. Look how many threads on here from women who want to leave their partner but say they can't because they can't afford to as they have no money of their own .

Of course it can. It's not a defence against all unhappiness or misfortune, there are things it can't buy and once you reach a certain point, more won't make you happier. But of course there are some things it can do that will make you happier than if you couldn't do them. Just being able to afford shelter, food, heating and clothing makes you happier than when you can't.

If you were unhappy in your marriage, money would give you the security to leave.

Your Grandad was 100% correct

Money doesn’t buy you happiness but it buys you the luxury of not having to worry about money which is a huge huge stress and source of anxiety and unhappiness

THIS

Money can't buy happiness, but it makes being miserable far more comfortable.

That is true. As it is I am happy in my marriage, but if I wasn’t then money wouldn’t make up for that, unless of course the cause of the unhappiness was linked the poverty. Absolutely I’d be more miserable were I trapped in the marriage for financial reasons, so money would indeed buy the option to leave and be happy.

Dang touch screens posting instead of scrolling ..

I was going to say that my dad used to say that as well.

It's true ime too. I've been better off and poorer etc and being poor and unhappy is horrid, being unhappy but having no money worries, takes a whole load of stress off.

Poor people still suffer ill health and bereavements.

At the very least money gives you security, comfort and peace of mind but it can also provide a nice house and car, foreign holidays, private healthcare and a good education. Not to mention hobbies, interests and a wide circle of friends.

Of course money can buy happiness. Yes I know rich people can lose a relative - but if I lose a relative I get 2 paid days leave for an immediate family member (that’s one of my parents or siblings) and then need to get back to work, I can’t afford any counselling or help, and to top it all off the car might break down on the way back to work after my two days grieving/sorting a funeral/trying to organise somebody’s affairs and I won’t be able to afford to have it fixed.

Yes, rich people get unwell too. And they decide not to go to work and pop off to their private healthcare to be seen and have all testing done the same day, then have plenty of time resting and recovering at home while paying for cleaning and childcare help as needed. When I got unwell? Months of waiting at the gp, being forced into rubbish shifts to cover my medical appointments, scrambling for childcare, put onto SSP (pathetic amount) when I was too sick to work and hospitalised, worrying about making ends meet rather than making my health better.

Money buys happiness - you have the same troubles but they don’t impact your life the same way. And if it doesn’t buy happiness, some billionaire is welcome to give me their money and I can see if I budget it to happiness better than they do!