This is some consumerist bullshit propaganda.

The key to happiness is to learn to control the "want" in the first place. That new dress, that fancy coffee, those taper candles, the travel, all the things that the author mentions in this article. All of these things they claim people are "putting off" allegedly because of some quirk of how our psychology has evolved... How much of that is truly responsible for our happiness?

I found I was happiest in my life whenever I stopped wanting things and appreciated the things that I had. I stopped caring about the latest videogame or movie or TV show or book that everyone around me was talking about. I stopped caring abojt appealing to fashion and body standards everyone else wanted to impose upon me. I stopped caring about fancy expensive whisky, wine, cheese. I stopped caring about fancy expensive restaurants. I stopped caring about "experiences".

Once you have "enough", buying and doing these things stops adding happiness. I know people who have much more expensive guitsr collections than I do but never have time to play them. I have gotten tens of thousands of hours of pleasure out of the guitar that cost my parents $150 back in 2003 when I was a kid, and I still play it today. I love jiat sitting on my back porch watching the squirrels, birds, bees, groundhogs, lightning bugs, deer, and batsat various times of year. The feeling of the sun on my feet. The feeling of sweating while doing yard work or shoveling snow. Kissing my wife in her forehead every morning while she's still asleep and i'm about to go to work. Holding my cat on my shoulder, feeling her lean up against my face and purr. Eating a ripe and juicy nectarine.

This post has shown up at a good time for me - thanks 🙏

Now lying in my hammock drinking coffee and looking around at all the other awesome things I've set up to enjoy.

Cause I dont have time to enjoy life now with limited vacation and money?

I was just (shower) thinking to myself that humans must be all the chimps that couldn’t help but chase some random thing out of the jungle and into the plains/Savannah/desert and were lucky or smart enough to survive. All while the other chimps were happy to chill.

Don't need a psychologist to tell me it's money

I have ADHD which makes me live every moment as if it were my last. Suck it, article!

Probably never going to retire, can't afford it and I probably won't live that long. I have retirement accounts but they're more of long term savings for emergency needs. No way I'd be able to save up the tens of thousands of dollars I'd need to catch up even if I got a higher paying job.

"The obsession's in the chasing, and not the apprehending - the pursuit, you see, and never the arrest." - Tom Waits

The lady in the thumbnail looks cozy as fuck.

assuming you can afford to "save" that way.

I just bought a quart of coffee ice cream on Friday for the week. I finished it Saturday night and loved every spoonful of its soft creamy goodness.