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Weekend reading: Happiness is a ton of great blog links

A good start to the year here on Monevator, from my point of view at least. Lots of readers kindly chimed in on my 2010 blog goals [1], and I stuck to the first of them, posting four more times this week on a wider range of money-related matters: technology investing [2], Shopify [3], snow and pay [4], and hedge funds [5].

I’ve still to nail those shorter posts, though!

Continuing the good vibe theme, my post of the week is from the Psy-Fi blog, where Timmar considers happiness and its relationship to wealth (via his customary detour into behavioural finance…)

Timmar writes [6]:

If anything, more money brings us less happiness in terms we’d really associate with feelings of contentment.

Higher salaries mean longer working hours, longer commutes, more stress, less time to stop and deadhead the flowers and socialise with our friends.

These aren’t the things we think of when we’re asked about whether more money would make us more cheerful.

I agree. While I hated earning less money back when co-founded a start-up – and it definitely made me less happy – I think that was because I felt I’d derailed my long set financial goals.

Actually having more money, before or since, has made virtually no difference to my happiness that I can tell. Perhaps I need to spend more of my money [7] though!

Some good reads from the money blogs

Financial and money articles from the UK papers

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