Spending boom fuelled by the desire for happiness
People's spending habits today are influenced more by the ebb and flow of personal relationships than the desire for material goods, according to research.
While spending patterns in the 1960s were characterised by fulfilling basic needs and in the 1980s by materialism, the trend now is towards personal fulfilment and emotional happiness.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/01/nspend01.xml
Buying lots of metal albums, watching lotsa movies, talking about all the cool 'n' hip books, DVDs, CDs and art objects you have. Yep. Nailed. You're typical, no matter how "underground" or "emo sensitive" (LOL) you are.
People's spending habits today are influenced more by the ebb and flow of personal relationships than the desire for material goods, according to research.
While spending patterns in the 1960s were characterised by fulfilling basic needs and in the 1980s by materialism, the trend now is towards personal fulfilment and emotional happiness.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/01/nspend01.xml
Buying lots of metal albums, watching lotsa movies, talking about all the cool 'n' hip books, DVDs, CDs and art objects you have. Yep. Nailed. You're typical, no matter how "underground" or "emo sensitive" (LOL) you are.
