To think money could actually buy happiness?

[nonamemummy]

I personally feel money could buy happiness
Do you agree?

It gives financial choices but not happiness. I know a few people who are extremely wealthy but not at all happy

Money buys choice and for many things makes life easier (food shopping, transport, childcare etc) but it doesn’t solve mental health issues, relationship troubles, bereavement etc so it makes life easier but not happier in my experience of having been struggling and now very comfortable.

Money does not give you happiness, I am retired, not even 40 and am thoroughly struggling with how to be happy.
I grew up poor and appreciate the choices I can now make, though this does equate with being happy.

Yes anyone who says no has never had survive poverty

Tbh I think money can buy a lot of happiness and help with health issues as well. I needed them to pay for IVF to have my DD and for some private treatment I needed recently. DD would benefit greatly from private SLT and physio (she had additional needs) and some changes in the house. It would make our life much less stressful and happier

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I think I would turn that around. If the most pressing problems in your life are financial then it will feel like money can bring you happiness by solving those problems. But money won’t necessarily bring happiness from other problems.

Research shows money CAN buy happiness up to a point. Once you have enough to live comfortably, it doesn't add any more. But if you're struggling, having more money decreases stress which adds to happiness.

I’m married to a man who pretends I don’t exist

He might find it hard to pretend you don't exist when he has to give you 50% of his assets.

No. Money can make life easier -no debt or worries about paying bills, but it doesn't make you happy,

It buys security, choice and comfort. Those things can contribute to happiness.

But it doesn't make up for other areas of your life which may be lacking. Family, friendships, relationships.

Yes, I have always said that money can and does buy happiness.

Money can buy you out of plenty of problems but it absolutely cannot buy you happiness.

Theres a level of wealth that could create choice and happiness before it gets to ridiculous wealth which then takes away happiness.

Lots of very wealthy people are depressed, suicidal and drug users numbing their pain. Growing up very wealthy does not produce happy adults.

No I don't believe it does.
Money has made my life comfortable, I've got a lovely home, nice car in the driveway and DH never questions what I spend money on.
But it can't buy happiness.
Our dd was murdered 4yrs ago. No amout of money will ever bring her back.
My mum had dementia for over 10yrs again money couldn't cure that vile disease.

Money can make life much much easier and in lots of ways more enjoyable but if it could directly buy happiness then rich people would never be depressed or commit suicide

"the only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure/which is a kind of trouble which is even more troublesome if you are poor"

Just seen @Fizzypoo wrote the same as me

@ParkheadParadise very sorry for your loss

Money can give you many things but happiness isn’t one of them.

I’ve been homeless and poor and my financial position has significantly changed as my username suggests. I’m certainly more financially secure but the money hasn’t made me any happier than I was before I had it.

Having lived struggling month to month with debts and now being comfortable, it was a big worry I no longer have. I think the stress is caused by a mismatch of lifestyle and means rather than the amount of money you have. You could be equally as stressed with a lot more money if your bills are big.

I think more money would make me happier for a bit, until my expectations had risen to match my new found wealth.

Tell that to my very wealthy fucking friend who killed herself at the age of 24 because all the money and therapists in the world couldn't make her hate herself any less.

Money buys comfort, lack of many of life’s stresses, and choice in how one lives one’s life.

It doesn’t buy happiness.

@GilbertMarkham well said.

Yes and no.

I have “money” but I’d be much happier with a nice man in my life. If I had to live alone forever with my money I wouldn’t be happy.

That being said if I had a nice man and no money I wouldn’t be happy either!

So yes I think you do need money to be happy, but you need other things too.

Well we’ve been so poor we’ve been on the verge of using food banks and had to have the local parish charity fix a leaking toilet for us and then last year we inherited a huge sum of money which has been completely life changing. So for us yes money has brought us happiness. Despite coming into it in sad circumstances.

We have always been a happy family however, poor or not. I’ve been married before and comfortably off and miserable as hell. So maybe it’s not completely clear cut. But money does bring opportunities and chances.

It can lessen stress. Stress makes you unhappy, so presumably it increases happiness too.