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Friday, 10. August 2012
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- Peergroup and happiness
- The Welfare Paradox
- A frugal trip to Northern Germany
and many more can be found here.
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Thursday, 31. May 2012
TV - the (Un)Happiness-Effect
In the previous post, we were discussing the money and time-consuming aspect of having a TV.

Now let's look on what happiness economics has to say on watching TV:
Source of the following is the book "Glück - die Sicht der Ökonomie" from the swiss professor Bruno Frey, who was one of the first to start scientific research on the measurement and causes of happiness.(English version here). Highly recommended reading for those who speak German.On his website there are a pile of publications to download in English as well, however mostly very scientific papers and more complicated to read. I happend to hear an excellent lecture of Prof.Frey at the Ludwig-Maximilans-University of Munich in 2001 or so - another great leap on my journey to more good days to live.

First of all, average TV consumption is massive throughout the world:

3h 30min for the average German.

Even more, 4h 50min, for the average US citizen.

That's a hell of a lot of time!



Let's make some comparisons:
...Continue on my main blog: www.gooddaytolive.net...
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Friday, 18. May 2012
Guide to Happiness & Money: Do you need a TV?

Did these guys need a TV? (seen at the amazing ancient greek city of Ephesus, today in Turkey)

Woodpecker's last TV


Do you remember these bulky huge TVs, one bought in 90s?

Big as a wardrobe and energy-consuming in a way you could heat your flat with them?

That was the last TV I owned.


I don't know how many hours I spend in front of it...
...until finally it broke down in 2004.

I was going to let it be repaired, but it was Mrs.Woodpecker (Mrs.Woodpecker in spe at that time), who voted for putting it away in the basement for some time, as she felt that she could not control her TV consumption.
Because of that she was one of the few persons who never possessed a TV, until we moved together some years before.

So the TV set went to the basement, and guess what:

I missed it terribly the first week
I missed it a lot the second week.
I missed it a little the third week.
I had forgotten about it the fourth week.
And I was glad like hell to have gotten rid of it from the fifth week on until....

...continue reading at my main blog.....
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