Buy Experiences, Not Things
Studies are showing that we are happiest when we acquire experiences rather than possessions. An interesting article on Fast Company sums it all up.
The science of why you should spend your money on experiences, not things
This… x1000.
“Life is built on experiences, not possessions.”
I am gravitating more and more towards only having possessions that are functional; Good quality headphones, an awesome coffee machine, the highest quality power tools.
Or things that can let me create experiences. I want and have good tools and things that builds other things that often produces no thing at all that I want to hang on to once built. I just want to have the skill and the experience of having built the thing with the things that build things.
These days I have as much fun in the quest for the “thing” than in having the “thing.”
I am moving away (have been for a while) from having things that are just things to have.
My physical media (books, videos, music) things now fit in two boxes.
My “this is a memory I wish to keep” things are 30+ year old things and they are growing less and less by each year.
I am also becoming quite ruthless in giving away things that no longer let me create experiences with them. I have outgrown those things or those things are no longer of my interest.
I still have a house full of things, but they are things that I value highly, rather than things that just take up space.
Now if only I could get my wife to look at her things the same way…