Whoever says money can't buy happiness probably isn't spending i

the right way. While researchers at Princeton recently concluded that $75,000 is how much, on average, we need to earn in order to feel happy, the purchases we make with our money are equally — if not, more

— important.

Case in point: I just got back from New Orleans. It's a trip I'll never forget and for that reason, studies say it was money well spent. Experiences, experts say, can buy happiness. "Material purchases they lose their

novelty," says Jim Harter, Gallup Chief Scientist and author of Well Being. "But the experiential purchases we can build stories around them. They endure."


And while charitable giving is down this year, it's another sure-fire way to boost happiness. And you don't need to go all out. Researchers at Harvard Business School and The University of British Columbia

conducted a survey of more than 600 volunteers and found that spending just $5 a day on someone else makes you more happy than spending that money on yourself.


Finally, Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest people in the world, is a big believer in investing in yourself as a way to boost happiness. Improving your talents and skills to enrich your life — from foreign

language lessons to going back to school — is an investment with endless returns. "If we first know what our interests are and we align those purchases with those interests and our own self-development, we

build on our own well being in the longer term," says Harter. i realy think and belive that when we help others who are in need this gives us alot of pleasure and happinessespeci

so what do you think