Experiences Bring Happiness, purchases don't

I’ve only read the blog post, not the full study, but I thought this was such
a great idea/point:  Experiences vs. purchases.

I was reminded of our trip to Costa Rica when I read it.  The trinkets the children
bought have been passed on to other people, but we were looking at pictures
of the trip a couple days ago, and we were laughing about the million steps we
had to walk down to get to this amazing waterfall, and how the tree fell on our
“funny van” while were gone.  Amazing memories…