Happiness don't cost much

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"Happiness is £15,000/year. Utter misery awaits you when you knock out £100,000" Discuss?

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Think there is a distinct possibility that £100,000 a year could bring a smile to my face,that probably makes me a shallow person,but there we are!!

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I could live with a little misery

[Elkay]

Echoes of Mr Micawber there, annon

I am in agreement with him - however much (or little) you have coming in, there should be slightly less going out

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I have to make do with misery until I can offload all this spare cash, but perhaps not all of it - have you seen the price of whiskey/whisky lately??

Elkay, Micawber's maxim did indeed extol the virtue of budget control, but what budget? You'd have to be a consumer maniac to overspend on 100K wouldn't you?

BC and pandj, having the aspiration to be 'shallow' and miserable is entirely down to personal choice. I applaud your knowing your own minds!

[4STIX]

By posting a comment on this Topic I would only incur the wrath of the
clergy, the throne and the feminists among us so,,,,,,,,,,,,

NO COMMENT

But i will gladly except charitable donations of cash only, cause my bank wont accept sarky comments

[cosima]

I'm also from the Mr Macawber school of finance but after the collection at the Sally Army this morning, the major prayed for wisdom to ensure that the money was spent wisely for the hungry and homeless, which certainly puts things in perspective a bit.

I think we probably all have more than we think we have and an awful lot to be thankful for too.

[Elkay]

Aug 5, 2012 14:11:52 GMT 1 cosima said:

I think we probably all have more than we think we have and an awful lot to be thankful for too.

I completely agree, cosima. When we sold up in the UK and came over here to live at the end of 2006 we were not sure whether we would manage financially. I was earning good money (sill money, really) contracting, but the work was very stressful (because, looking back I guess I cared too much) and Mr LK is a little older than me and was already retired.

So, I am now 60 but won't get my UK state pension until November 2013 and we have been living quite frugally but very very happily since 2006.

We had an endowment policy mature recently and spent the lot on a cruise - we had a most amazing time and though it may have been more 'sensible' to put the money by instead we have some wonderful memories of the places we visited and we made some new friends too.

So, going back to cosima's comment, we don't waste money any more and we have a very good life and health a lot to be thankful for

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Well said Elkay - it's possible to be happy on less, that's really my proposition...

And cosima, your comments and insights are very welcome, and I hope they'll continue....

And 4stix, for me at least, and I may be the only person on here to think so, keep your comments coming too!

[<-Rinky-Dink->]

Money........................ seems to me that the more you have, the more you spend and the more money you want. However, since we have been here and seen prices going up and up, I do worry about how we will manage once our dwindling savings are used up.