The Monday Piece - Happy Spending

This week's Monday Piece is on happy spending! With the Spring beauty sales well underway, cosmetics fans across the globe will be getting their bank cards ready for use. But what good do these purchases do us?

 

Interested in online shopping, money.co.uk conducted an emotions test among 2,560 participants to discover which online purchases bring us the most joy! They also spoke to a psychologist who explains the relationship between happiness and online shopping.

 

Highlights from the research include:

• An eyeshadow palette is the beauty product that makes people happiest, improving happiness by 62% and ranking 7th overall

• Other beauty products that rank in the top 20 include perfume, nail polish and lipstick!

• Online purchases are found to raise our positive feelings by 56%, on average

• Participants reported the biggest increase in happiness when purchasing houseplants - positive emotions soared by 67%

• Trainers and fiction books are also among the purchases raising positive emotions most

I must admit, I do enjoy some retail therapy, especially beauty and bags :)

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