Paying off your mortgage may not make you as much money as investing them money elsewhere, but neither does buying
a fancy car or a house that is too big, or taking vacations to Hawaii, and isn't that what the gurus tell us we should do with all the money we make in real estate anyway?
Not exact matches
The answer isn't buying a nice
car or fancy house.
According to Stossel, Gilbert contends that «because of logic - processing errors our brains tend to make, we don't want the things that would make us happy and the things that we want (more money, say,
or a bigger
house or a
fancier car) won't make us happy.»
And here's the important point: I'm not saying that it's cooler to be a nonconformist,
or that his friends with
fancy cars and beautiful
houses aren't happy.
Psychologists tell us that, at most, 10 % of our happiness comes from stuff like fast
cars, big
houses, initials after our names
or fancy titles on our...
Psychologists tell us that, at most, 10 % of our happiness comes from stuff like fast
cars, big
houses, initials after our names
or fancy titles on our business cards.
So, as with many items on your want and don't want list, things can get obscured by someone having that
fancy car, big
house or as one lady was looking for on her dating profile and wrote... «It sure would be nice if you have blue eyes»
Saying this, we do not mean you can buy a Russian wife with your
fancy car or your big
house.
Instead of spending that extra money on inflating your lifestyle by buying a
fancier car, bigger
house,
or going on a
fancier vacation.
It's far too easy to spend more than we ought to when we're just putting it on our tab — to buy a
fancier car than we need, to purchase a bigger
house than we can truly afford,
or to pick the private university over state school.
A
house is the largest purchase most Americans will ever make, far greater than a
car or any
fancy handbag.