1765: [Part 1] How to Buy Happiness by David Cain of Raptitude on Intentional Spending

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🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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David Cain shares how some purchases actually do bring him happiness, even when they are ridiculously expensive. This is part 1 of 2. Episode 1765: [Part 1] How to Buy Happiness by David Cain of Raptitude on Intentional Spending David Cain is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time. The original post is located here: http://www.raptitude.com/2012/03/how-to-buy-happiness Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalFinanceDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Finance Daily, Episode 1765.
0:04.4	How to Buy Happiness, Part 1 by David Cain of Raptitude.com
0:10.4	And I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana Mariam.
0:14.8	Now today I have a bit of a longer post, so I'll read the first half today
0:19.5	and then finish the rest for you tomorrow.
0:22.1	And with that, let's dive into the first half and start optimizing your life.
0:30.9	How to Buy Happiness, Part 1 by David Cain of Raptitude.com
0:37.6	While I was driving home from my appointment, I couldn't help but feel nervous
0:41.6	that I would forget to do something.
0:44.0	Peel the price tag off a thing I just bought in case somebody saw how much it cost.
0:49.7	I pulled onto a side street and grabbed the plastic bag from the back seat.
0:54.2	In it was a puck-sized container of a high-end hair paste.
0:58.6	I scratched the little white sticker off.
1:01.3	It was $35 and now only I knew.
1:05.6	Some paranoid financial conditioning somewhere in my head
1:09.5	had me thinking it had been an extravagant purchase.
1:13.1	But I thought about it for a minute and realized that no.
1:16.5	For what it does for me, it's some of the best value I'll ever get for $35.
1:22.4	I'm 31 years old and it wasn't until I started going to a well-reputed salon
1:27.4	and buying $35 hair paste that I finally began to really like my hair.
1:33.2	This was a year ago. My mom had always been a point of self-consciousness for me.
1:39.4	I liked myself but I never got along with my hair.
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