how much wealth do we need to lead a normal happy life.?

Question

name any five most important material things we should own in our life time?

Answer 1

Hmm, well as someone who bought and paid for thier own home before I even got married, I must say life would have been a piece of cake if it carried on the way it did in my single days. But wow, marriage and family changes EVERYTHING.

Let's just suffice it to say that THAT came to a screeching halt and I don't know if it's society and life that changed or just our circumstances but it's been a struggle ever since.

I stay at home, do some work from home for a transcription company--with three kids I'll tell you it's never enough.

We get by, barely, and we're in debt yes.

I would say to lead a normal, happy life, one should be debt free, therefore you don't have that pressure looming over your head all the time--the number one relationship buster I think.

Aside from having enough, you need to have MORE. Now the million dollar question is how much more.

Frankly, people earn thousands, millions, even billions, and it's never enough for some.

I would be happy to have enough money to be able to take a summer vacation, a winter get-away, catch a movie and dinner on the weekend, and maybe order food a couple of times a week.

I'd like to have enough to put the kids into music lessons, all the sporting activities they want, and a good 2 weeks at camp each summer too.

It would be great to have a little cottage or even a trailer on the lake somewhere...just something for summer weekend getaways.

Aside from that, I'm not greedy or materialistic at all. There is nothing I need.

I don't care what I own. I would like to make enough money to just live that quality of life, but unfortunately I don't.

I think people only need own a small place to call home and maybe a vehicle. I don't think anything else is a necessity, just a perk.

Everyone should "own" a medical insurance policy. Everyone should have medical and dental coverage. That's about it. Beyond that you can "own" good friends who have what you don't and you can all benefit from friendships as people add to your lives the things that you don't have, so you can find happiness through others, but only if it's true friendship. No one will befriend you if you are insincere. As the saying goes, the greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of a friend.

Answer 2

No materials will satisfy ones life. It is solely the attitude to take even the waste & create a new items of it & use for daily life creatively.
Of course a set of covered cloths to wear & good health is most important to live.

Answer 3

First of all, it takes money to make money. It also takes money to travel and to have the time freedom to enjoy your friends who share the same kind of time freedom.

The statistics, last time I looked, the average US citizen needed 175,000 annually to lead a normal happy life before gas prices and insurance became unaffordable.

Now, calculating the gas and insurance costs, it has jumped to 190,000 annually to live a normal happy life.

I think it's kind of wimpy to feel that friends are more important, they are not going to pay my kids dental bills and certainly are not going to pay for my future. So, well meaning friends often hold you back from your dreams.

Because, once you change your financial status to one who is debt free and who isn't a slave in the rat race anymore, then your friends become complainers who don't see a way out of their financial problems.

Then when you try to help them learn how to do what you do, they have every excuse in the book not to make the effort.

So, you end up making new friends who relate to you and lift you up.

Answer 4

It varies from person to person because "normal and happy" varies from person to person. For me it's having the following bills covered: rent, car loan, electricity, water, cable, and groceries, and then having enough money to put gasoline in the car and do things like eat out, see movies, and finance my hobbies of reptile-keeping, video games, and bass playing (yeah, you can tell I'm still single...).

However, without people to share experiences with, all of my leisure time is just empty, so having other people around would always be a key factor for me, regardless of the amount of money I made.

Answer 5

First you need to decide what a normal and happy life is. Five things: Food, Shelter,Clothing,Medical, and Insurance.

Answer 6

i'd bypass for a common existence because i imagine that when you're wealthy and popular, you at the prompt are not getting a lot privateness and that the generic public believes in even if that is they listen so for this reason you gained't be seen as who you truly are. i imagine once you're popular, the generic public asks for too a lot from you. i keep in mind that followers and the generic public those days check out human beings bodily and do not care about the skills. when you're popular, you're judged too a lot. those who're wealthy, (maximum of them) use them for self purposes and they don't help out the human beings who want it. money doesn't convey me happiness, so for this reason if I had adequate money to get what i want (no longer what i want) and had the human beings I loved round me, existence will be appropriate :)

Answer 7

wealth is eseentail but limitations are laways there.like good food means costly food but not so costly as gold or diomond. same thing is applicalble every where.did Sadam hussain saved himself as he had huge reservor of money. so dont look yesterday or tomorow ,but try to look only present.

Answer 8

material things can not make you happy if you do not have someone to share it with. Even then, material things can not make you happy.

Answer 9

if u r satisfied with 100bucks(means what ur earning) it is sufficiant, but if u r not satisfied with what u r getting, it is always less than ur satisfaction.

Answer 10

sufficiently enough
the contentment
what we posses