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Re:If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spen... by base698 on Thursday May 03, 2012 @12:16PM (#3924442)
No, I think the resources you spend on camping are very much part of the experiences they are referring. Likewise renting a studio and jamming with your friends is another experience that plays into this. You need tools for any given hobby, but once you invest you have a lot of experiences ahead of you.
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Re:If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spen... by WalterSear on Thursday May 03, 2012 @12:22PM (#3924472)
That's what I thought at first, but I was informed otherwise by the consumer happiness lab. And, the follow up questions on the number of common measures I have read/taken don't support this classification. It's fancy clothes or a night out, all the way down.

Like I said, the field is overly obsessed with lowest common denominator purchase decisions, that IMHO, are totally at odds with the phenomena they are trying to investigate.

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