Buying Experiences...

When we use our money to buy positive experiences we gain more.  Not something I have always thought of mostly because we don’t usually think about the long term effects our purchases have on our lives.  Like when we are in a bad mood...we are likely to spend the most and studies show that we are likely to spend FOUR times as much money for something.  But when we buy experiences we get several benefits...looking forward to the event, the event itself and in some case (the hope is that we...) have decades of fond memories.  Think about everything you spend your money on...we relive our memories much more than our material possessions.  While I love my material possessions...alone they don’t make me the happiest.