Ways that improve your happiness:
Think about time One of the chapters in Happy Money is all about buying time. So, everything you buy, think about how it’s going to affect your time. Not the product itself, but what you’re going to do with it later and that massively changes your decision-making. So, not to come back to TVs, but buying a TV, you think, “ Oh. This is going to be great. I’m going to have friends over and we’re going to watch TV and the kids will be there. We’ll have family movie night. ” It turns out, when you buy a TV, what you do is you watch it by yourself in a dark room. It’s not good for you. If you think about, “ Wait. How am I actually going to use this TV? How will it actually change my time? ” you might say, “ Maybe I don’t want to get a TV. “ Those kinds of decisions, alone, are very important to think about, not your fantasy of what it’s going to do, but “ How will this actually change the time I spend in the weeks going forward? ” and a TV commits you to thousands of hours by yourse