to have a really low tolerance for people expressing boredom with their lives

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if it's boring you, do something about it

if you've got everything, do something for someone else

life is short folks and you never know what's round the corner

replace "due to to" with "the"

You know how people say "Money can't buy Happiness"? Its bollocks, pure and simple. It can't prevent unhappiness, but thats not all the same thing. It can buy big fat chunks of happiness if you have enough of it.

And it can sure as hell do an awful lot to prevent boredom, loneliness, and lack of opportunity.

I don't LeQueen - otherwise I'd be permanently miserable with how bored I am of my life right now

I don't think money can buy happiness - not lasting happiness. Someone could give me £5000 and I could go on holiays to the Bahamas..........no doubt we'd have a bloody fabulous time - but it's a short lived thing,

chump change like that might just buy you a temporary high, but real money, ie having enough to not have to worry about money can buy you happiness. Mainly because it can buy you choices, and IMO real choice is the key to freedom and therefore true happiness. Or serious contentment at least, happiness being by its nature a transient state.

nope - I don't believe it - we lived comfortably many years back, we had no money worries, had everything we needed, my marriage was still good, I was no happier then than I am now, actulaly I'm happier now than I have ever been.

Numberous studies have shown over the years that while financial security is a contributing fact - but not the only one by a long stretch - in 200 Denmark was said to be the happiest nation in the world, followed by Puerto Rico and Colombia...........

I met an awful lot of very happy, very poor people while living in Zimbabwe. Perfectly content with their "lot" in life, and not at all concerned with material goods.

I didn't say money always buys happiness, or that you need money to be happy.
All I'm saying is that for many people it can certainly help. All those places you want to go, things you's like to do, to experience, if you'd like to study or change direction in work, so many things in life open up when you have the money to have choices, when you aren't stuck in situations purely through lack of cash. Because thats reality for an awful lot of people. I'm not talking at all about material goods, but just living is easier when you have cash.

It shouldn't be true but it is.

Well I'm stuck right now because of cash - I'm anything but unhappy. I've never met anyone yet that was made happy because of money, yes they may have had money, but they had good relationships (not just talking about a DP/DH/DW) , and self confidence that were the key to their happiness.

Money buys a pretend form of happiness - I really don't believe that it buys life happiness.

I've never actively annoyed by it
people need whinge now and again.

Well I'm happy for you then.

I'm not unhappy, and its not like I sit around pining for a lotto win, but I know I would be happier with a big bank balance. I grew up in poverty and I saw what life can be when every choice in your life comes down to money, until you don't have any choices. Money would let me do many things that right now are jsut dreams, and I don't mean big things, I mean just getting a job or having enough bedrooms for my children.
But actually I'm pretty happy anyway. I guess we're just luck though...

*lucky. Theres a coherent point in there somewhere, I'm sure.

I guess it comes down to what makes you tick. I've been on both sides of the coin (both as a child and as an adult) - grass isn't any greener on the rich side of the fence for me. It's all just stuff. Yes it's nice to have, nice to be able to do certain stuff, but it's not the be all and end all for me. I've realised for me I'm happiest when I've got good friends (I would say family but I never talk to them.........which makes me happier ), great kids, good health, and I have a roof over my head, and food (not a lot right now - roll on Thursday with the tax credits coming in ) in the cupboards.

For me money may make life a little more exciting and less "boring" - but that's it - doesn't make me any happier not in the longer term. Yes I get the "buzz" when we do something a bit different from usual, but I don't miss it when I don't have it.

- I knew what you meant

although if you're lady luck I wouldn't mind a bit this way to find me a nice man (so that I can start running again _

plus as well, as me auld ma used to say, if money can't be ye happiness, you'll be more comfortable in your misery!

Whenever I see people who win the Lotto saying "oh it won't change me/my life, money can't buy happiness etc", I always think won't it? then you won't be trying hard enough, give some to me and I'll show you how its done

I'm with Mr. Micawber:

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

- very true

So you're bored with people saying they are bored?

I can have a good moan like everyone else.

But i found out this afternoon that a dear friend of mine was hit by a truck on her way to work. She'll be ok but she's very badly hurt and will need lots of surgery. She could be out of action for months.

I will never moan again. Things aren't that bad. I'm healthy and in one piece.

For me these days, boredom is often associated with physical frustration, not being able to go for a long walk or have a day in the countryside because I am stuck at home with (chronically ill) child. To me, this is like a physical pain and not something that can be alleviated with a book; I need to do things myself, not just read about others doing them. Going to work helps, but it is still not the kind of action I crave.

I'm bored because I don't go out for days on end, someone else takes my children to school, OH works away so other than my parents and children I don't usually speak to anyone in the week. I'm trying to make myself a dress at the moment. I'm trained in making clothes, I should be able to do this in a day but I'm in so much pain I can't do it for long then I give up and watch TV.

I'd love to be able to do something about my boredom.