Actually money cannot buy us happiness, however, I would absolutely say that it’s better to have money than to not have money. Can you spend your way to a sunnier outlook on life? Sometimes it would certainly seem that way wouldn’t it?

We see the ads on television all the time that tell us if we buy a certain luxury car we will be happier. Now, that’s not to say we won’t be happier driving a more comfortable, safer, prettier car but let’s look at it from the material aspect of it. If one has the money to buy a luxury car and is able to afford it without it putting any stress in their lives around money, then certainly they feel good and happy about having a new car.

It’s a really fine line in making the distinction around some thing making us happy and feeling happy because we’ve purchased some thing that we wanted and is new and we can afford.

We are particularly seeing these days how many people bought many things that they could not afford and have absolutely no happiness, and truly they are as far away from feeling happy as they possibly could be, because they now cannot afford them.

It’s really being made manifest in the physical form for us as to how we really haven’t been able to make that distinction. Many people these days are going back to a much simpler way of life.

If one buys a luxury car they can’t afford, life is anything but simple when it comes time to make that monthly payment. If they have purchased that luxury car in the face of planning for it and absolutely knowing they have enough money to put as a down payment so as to be able to afford the monthly payments then when it comes time to make them it’s very simple that all they have to do is write the check and it’s done.

There’s such a thing called money misery but I would contend that its money miserly that creates the money misery. What do I mean by this? What we are seeing and have been seeing of late is that we’re never satisfied. We always think, “if we had just a little bit more money, we’d be happier,” says Catherine Sanderson of psychology professor at Amherst College.

It’s the thinking “if I had just a little bit more I’d be happier” that gets us into trouble. Because when we believe that we need just a little bit more we are really saying that we can never have enough.

As we continue to go through life believing that we’ll never have enough we continue to live the life of never having enough.

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