Money cannot buy happiness. I hit publish on your article so I can put in my 2 cents, which are worth much more than the cost of anything you talk about. Happiness, and sadness are each but fleeting emotions. I seek contentment, which is not settling but a hopefully high-altitude baseline, coming from within and connection to without. It doesn’t stem from the acquisition of attachments but awareness of connection to the world and the universe as a living, breathing, and heart-beating organism and from alignment of mind and soul and discerning my why — my drive — from discovering who I am at my core.