A Christmas Carol: Can Money Buy Happiness?

Charles Spurgeon once said,¨It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.” Happiness can be because of friends, family, and love. No matter how much people have they can still be happy. Many people can give you different definitions of happiness but the end it's just when people are full of joy and smiling. People can not go into a store and find happiness on a shelf, therefor money cannot buy happiness.

It can be argued that someone may want something they want really bad that they say it will make them so happy, but in the end they are just as happy as they were before you had that item. As we see in A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley a classical holiday story we learn that Ebenezer Scrooge is unhappy with

all the money he already has. We learn that the less money people have the more happier people really are. Ebenezer Scrooge is a grumpy miser with lots of money. Marley is scrooge's old business partner. Sources have said that when someone buys a mansion they are just as happy, or when people win the lottery you're just as happy as before. The studies have shown that the more money people have the more stress you have because they are worried about someone stealing their money or something happening. For example, in A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, the author states,“Thank you, dear Lord, for your many gifts...our dear children; our wonderful meal; our love for one another; and the warmth of our small fire…” (Horovitz 287). The Cratchit family is thankful for the little things they have, they also prove that people don't need much to be happy. “And therefore, Uncle, though [Christmas] has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has done me good, and that it will do me good; and I say, God bless it” (Horovitz 267)! This quote shows that without money you can be free and happy and don't need to collect money from others. These quotes show that to be happy people don't need money to be happy all people need is others. This explains that people are happy with what they have and don't need to have everything to be happy. In conclusion be happy with things people already have because the more you have doesn't mean anything.
Some may argue that money can buy you happiness, because they could go on vacation or a nice dinner, but in the end studies have shown you are as happy as you were.

However it can be said that,¨ A study by the Chicago Booth School of Business found that people who came into a windfall of money reported increased happiness the more they spent that windfall on others. However, if your goal is to maximize your own happiness, the study indicated you should spend that money on a shared experience with someone else rather than a faceless donation¨(Sekar 1). People might think that when they buy something, it makes them happy. Is that really true? However, it can be said that, “Winning the lottery isn't a ticket to true happiness, however enticing it might be to imagine never working again and being able to afford anything you want. One study famously found that people who had big wins on the lottery ended up no happier than those who had bought tickets but didn't win. It seems that as long as you can afford to avoid the basic miseries of life, having loads of spare cash doesn't make you very much happier than having very little”(Stafford 1). This shows as long as you can afford the necessities you can be happy.

In conclusion, everyone should just try to be happy with or without money, because in the end money can't buy happiness. Happiness does not have a price tag; therefore money can not buy happiness. Even if you don't have all the money in the world you are probably as happy or happier than the people with a lot of money. Everyone should just try to be happy with or without money, because in the end money can't buy

happines.