As Christmas shopping is in the air, the question you ask yourself yearly is will these gifts make all the people you care about happy?  Is the money that you are frantically spending now and saved the whole year working buy you happiness?  It is not hard to be pensive around this time of the year when it is almost 15 years past the 2000 mark that you question the relationship of money and happiness.

There is a very good write up  worth reading and thinking about online: http://cashcowcouple.com/life-lessons/can-money-buy-happiness.