To think money could actually buy happiness?

[nonamemummy]

I personally feel money could buy happiness
Do you agree?

-A nice house that I own and accommodates my needs.
-No credit/loans.
-Being able to afford food shopping weekly and have healthier foods/better quality.
-Spare money for activities I enjoy or days/evenings out.

I think it’s all relative though, and depending on personal circumstances. I have all of the above but still have many worries and heartache.

Money can to a large extent free you from being worried. I've been bones of my arse poor and I still remember how it felt when the car started making ominous noises - and my job depended on that car.

Now I'm a widow, I've inherited, I'm not insanely rich but I'm comfortable. When things break down, I can get them repaired and not worry. I can afford to respite foster a teen and make life better for them and their mum. I can get my garden turned into an actual garden and plan two really nice holidays this year. I can support my DDs through uni. Life's easier - not perfect, but definitely easier.

It cannot buy happiness but it would solve a lot of problems that would contribute towards happiness. But it doesn't definately automatically make someone happy.

Yes

Of course money can buy happiness. My life would be a fuckload more pleasurable if my family wasn't living in a house that was too small, if I could just pop to the shops to buy bread without having to count out pennies at the checkout, and if I didn't have to worry about the car not starting every morning.

Those who say it doesn't are utterly deluded.

I think money would solve pretty much every issue I have.

@nonamemummy I notice your username - you clearly have children. Money can’t buy happiness when happiness is having a baby/children. We have no mortgage. Combined salary of 7k a month and 200k in savings - but can’t have children and no luck with ivf so far. So from my view money can’t buy happiness.

@namechangetheworld see my post for some perspective. Money can’t buy happiness.

Yes of course
But it’s what you do with it
Sharing it makes me very happy.

I do in that for, it would give me a lot of freedom and choice I don’t have now in terms of work. Basically, I’ve always been a full-time working mum & whilst I have a fan career, in the last 10-years I’ve desperately wanted to be a SAHM.

All the money in the world couldn’t cure depression, low self esteem or make someone love you or change the past - which are the things that generally make people unhappy IMO.

As it stands I am happy, money would just give dh and I further security, so I would say maybe.

I'd certainly give it a try

It can't buy you happiness. Being poor can obviously make you unhappy though.

We have plenty of money. My dad still died 4 weeks ago, we still can't conceive our second child, I still have arthritis.

Money helps, but it doesn't buy you happiness or make you happy.

Money doesn't stop child abuse
Money doesn't stop people dying
Money doesn't stop depression
Money doesn't stop you having a shit family

Self esteem and self worth bring true happiness.

Depends on the situation. It can’t bring close ones back front the dead . It can’t salvage relationships with people. It can’t always help with your health. But if I’d wont the lottery I could go on nice holidays, not work, eat at fancy restaurants. So yeah that would make me very happy. But it’s not going to bring back my close relative from the dead

Money makes most situations easier.

We are wealthy. Without going I to detail

Whilst I don’t agree it makes you happy

It’s makes life a hell of a lot easier. Car breaks. It gets fixed. Boiler breaks. It gets fixed. Want to go abroad. Go abroad. Want to plan a holiday. Book it. Want a new kitchen. Get one

You’ll notice. The ones who have money. Say it doesn’t buy you happiness

Those who don’t have money. Believe it will.

Mine reduced stress and takes a worry away. I’ve recently been widowed and have plenty of money, no mortgage, a job and an income from investments.

It means my kids necer have to move, we can do what we want to do and I can pay for any support they need. I don’t worry about them going without anything material. They’ve still lost their dad though which is awful. However, because we had private health he lived longer than he would have otherwise and had the best doctors we could find, money gave us that. It doesn’t make you happy but it takes the additional stress off

A big win on the lottery would mean that our son would be taken care of for the rest of his life instead of us worrying what will happen to him after we have gone - which is the thing that bothers us more than anything else.

This year, my parents marriage broke down after 40 years...turns out my dad had never been faithful and had a secret family from the beginning. My poor mum is torn apart, as am I. My father is not who I thought he was. I have been to counseling but it still eats me up. I am battling and that’s ok...but no amount of money will fix that. Unless anyone has any suggestions?!

100% yes, because money can give you the freedom to do/buy things that make you happy, and it can take away the stress that money troubles cause.

Longterm it won't necessarily make you any happier, if the causes of your unhappiness run deeper, but money can certainly give you choices and make your life easier.

Now to read what everyone else thinks!

My grandmother always says money can't buy happiness but it goes a long way to helping

I think that sums it up!

Whoever says it doesn’t simply doesn’t know where to shop

Serious answer: no, it can’t buy happiness, but it can buy more freedom and choices that can therefore make you more likely to be happy.