“Buy Experiences, Not Things,” the article written by James Hamblin tells the reader that the experience of waiting for something is better than buying stuff in three points: the happiness people feel, the anticipation people feel, and the connection people feel. Starting off, the article says that people feel happier when waiting for something to come instead of when it gets there. “…happiness is in the content of moment-to-moment experiences. Nothing material is intrinsically valuable, except in whatever promise of happiness it carries.” (Page 2 Paragraph 2). This quote explains that happiness is not in material things but in the happiness it brings. (I did not mean to rhyme…) With that in mind, people may want the happiness that things give
