"You Can Buy Happiness, If It's An Experience" We humans spend a lot of time waiting in lines:
People queue up for days in order to get their
hands on the latest iPhone, or what feels like
eons1
for a table at that hip new brunch place.
You may be better off spending time and money
on the latter.2

A growing body of research has
shown that experiences tend to make people
happier than material possessions.
And even anticipating an experience like a
concert, a ski trip or what better be a really great
brunch makes us happier than purchasing the
latest gadgets, according to a study published
Tuesday in Psychological Science.
The study, cleverly titled Waiting for Merlot: Anticipatory Consumption of Experiential and Material
Purchases, tracked how about 100 college students and over 2,200 randomly selected adults felt about
material goods and experiences.
People got excited about both things and events. But they tended to feel more positive about
experiential purchases, and their feelings about material purchases were more likely to be tinged with
feelings of impatience.
“I think one aspect of that has to do with the nature of imagination,” says Amit Kumar, a doctoral
student of psychology at Cornell University and one of the researchers behind the paper.
“If you’re waiting to buy an iPhone, you know exactly how many megapixels the camera on the new
phone will have,” Kumar told Shots. People often get really creative while planning out a future
vacation, he says, and just thinking about all the things they’ll be doing and all fun they’ll be having can
boost their mood.

Question -
In the context of this article, can money buy happiness? Is money necessary for happiness?
Cite evidence from the article, your own personal experience, and other literature, art, or
history in your answer.