Would Mega bucks make you happier

[binley100]

Money may not be the be-all and end-all to happiness but it certainly can make things a hell of a lot better for the majority of people.
Ask a slumkid from the Mumabai slums as to whether money would make them happy. Of course it would, they could go to school and wouldn't have to spend their days foraging around the rubbish tips to try and earn a pittance .

[bishop]

yes it would for me, i work in a local factory 3 shifts and put 8-20 hrs overtime in each week just done a 12 hr shift today, saving for our holls,would much rather spend all my time with my 3 and 7 year old daughters, just enough so i dont need to do any overtime, and my wife to be able to pack her part time job in would make me very happy,

[Alison]

If money equals happiness then why are there lots of rich people having to check themselves into rehab or whatever for depression / addiction etc?

No money doesn't buy happiness but it can take away worries which CAN make your life happier. No guarantees on this though and whilst I'd not to have less than I have I'm proud to be able to say I worked for what I have and didn't get it handed to me and the fact that I've been responsible for my possessions makes me smile. I have simple tastes, no interest in having the new anything and don't do gadgets. I like to revamp old possessions and love a charity shop bargain. Lots of things make happiness and money CAN be one of them but it's really not that simple. My mother is reasonably well off but would rather not be - may sound strange but the reason she has some money is due to insurance scheme taken out my dad. She'd rather not have the money and have him still alive and well to share her life - pretty simple really

[Snadger]

Lend us a tenner then Snadger?

Enough people's relationships flounder because of lack of money, how ever hard people try not to let 'no money' matter. So it seems a stupid statement put about by people with money to keep it from those without, to say money can't make you happy.

I think the threads question was a personal one so I gave an answer personal to my own situation!

I haven't got much money but I live frugally and enjoy life!

[smallblueplanet]

I haven't got much money but I live frugally and enjoy life!

Is that no then?

[Snadger]

Is that no then?

If you are desperate for a tenner, such a nice person and seeing I know you I think I could......NO!!!!!!

I have a theory anyway............anyone who doesn't put money on the National Lottery is usually happy with there lot.

[lettucegrow!]

Would love to give it a go. I'd have a garden good enough to open to raise funds for charity and spend all my time working in it. that would make me really happy!

[di]

I'd love to have the oppotunity to find out

I think,like many others,that money doesn't actually make you happy but it can most definately take away a lot of the things that make you miserable.

[Rocketron]

Makes me think... If happy is a superlative. How can you be happier?

Happy isn't a superlative (serious point).
He is , however a Dwarf (non-serious point).

[binley100]

He is , however a Dwarf (non-serious point).

Who worked hard and lived in a little house where he had to share a room with six brothers...........

[BarleySugar]

I agree with what most on here say, taking away worries and frustration at doing jobs we have to rather than want to, and being able to help family and friends who are having a hard time would make me happy, and to do that I need much more money than I have, or am likely to have.

[kirsty b]

A thorny issue
The OH and I often wonder what we would do if we won the lottery...but playing it would help!

It would be nice to have enough in the bank to be comfortable and have a few treats. We get by mostly ok, but now and again we do struggle if something unexpected crops up and we have to do a bit of juggling. It would be nice not to have to juggle, it would take away a little of the stress that sometimes comes our way due to money - or lack of.]

We are pretty happy most of the time. The things we'd love the most money couldn't buy anyway.

[Snadger]

The thing is, how much would be enough though? And after a few years would you not need another top up because you couldn't 'cut your cloth to suit your means'?

[Snadger]

Who worked hard and lived in a little house where he had to share a room with six brothers...........

.....and three porridge eating bears.......oh no, that was someone else!

[Glutton4...]

I agree that you can't buy happiness - I have a friend, who is now very well-off, due to great determination and lots of hard work. However, their personal life has suffered because of this, and they are now quite unhappy. But financially secure for the rest of their life.

Me, I'd love to be filthy stinkin' rich, ta! But there are things I wouldn't swap.