Money CAN buy happiness

There was a great article here about money and happiness. An aggressively interesting part is when they discussed the concept of what we are buying.

"Part of the problem is that happiness isn’t necessarily what’s motivating us when we reach for our wallets."

This is interesting because most of us work eight to twelve hours a day for money and then think long and hard about how we are going to spend our money. We then bemoan that money can't buy us happiness when in fact that is not what we were trying to buy in the first place. What if somebody close to you spent a year saving money, took twenty thousand dollars in cash and went and bought a beautiful car with it. Three months later they come to you and complain that the car was not giving them the the benefit of retirement security that they had hoped for. It is not that money can't buy you retirement security, that's just not what you bought.

So read the article and then go out today and buy yourself some happiness or stop complaining that your money is broken.