{"id":2109,"date":"2014-11-27T06:33:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T11:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2014-11-27T06:33:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T11:33:19","slug":"buying-less-stuff-can-actually-make-you-more-happy-carl-duivenvoorden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"Buying Less Stuff Can Actually Make You More Happy\u00a0|\u00a0Carl Duivenvoorden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buying Less Stuff Can Actually Make You More Happy\u00a0|\u00a0Carl Duivenvoorden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tax time is never pretty, and for me last year was uglier than usual. By the measures of economics and Revenue Canada, I didn’t have a great 2013. But by the measures of sustainability and fulfillment, I had an awesome 2013. How could that be?<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, a book I read recently has helped me make sense of that paradox. It’s called\u00a0Your Money or Your Life<\/em>, and it explains how you don’t need as much money as you might think to live a fulfilling, sustainable and financially secure life. That’s especially relevant on the threshold of Black Friday and the coming Christmas shopping frenzy. Here’s an overview.<\/p>\n

Financial treadmill<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you work at a conventional job, do you know what price you are getting for your time? Time is the only asset any of us truly have; the authors refer to it as our ‘life energy’.<\/p>\n

The answer isn’t as simple as you’d think. If you earn $1,000 for a 40 hour week, the quick answer is $25. But if you spend two hours a day getting ready for work, commuting and unwinding when you get home, your work week is really 50 hours.<\/p>\n

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Buying Less Stuff Can Actually Make You More Happy\u00a0|\u00a0Carl Duivenvoorden. Tax time is never pretty, and for me last year was uglier than usual. By the measures of economics and Revenue Canada, I didn’t have a great 2013. But by the measures of sustainability and fulfillment, I had an awesome 2013. How could that be? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[161,1452,1453,769],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-consumerism","tag-happiness","tag-resource-depletion","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}