Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to buy yourself some flowers.

A cheerful bouquet is quite possibly the quickest way to make yourself more cheerful.

And your happiness is worth a few bucks.

I am writing this episode as much for me as for anyone else.

I love bouquets of flowers.

Probably most people do.

And yet I almost never buy them.

Spending money on such things seems like a waste.

The flowers will die.

I don't need them.

And so I don't buy them.

I guess I could pride myself on being thrifty there, but a little inquiry would show that I am hardly consistent.

I waste money on all sorts of other things.

That would bring me a lot less pleasure over time.

Usually there is some practical purpose to those purchases.

I need to eat or wear clothes or at least the thing is supposed to be permanent.

Like a lamp, for instance.

But with the flowers, I am actively choosing to spend money on something that is solely for pleasure.

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