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Experience Over Gifts (#5)

Experience Over Gifts (#5)

Robert Glazer
Feb 05, 2016
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Having just passed a milestone birthday (thanks to all of you who guessed 30), I made the conscious decision to forgo gifts in favor of more intimate experiences with both family and friends. As it turns out, gifts don’t make us as happy as we think they do and there is some strong science on the advantage of experiences.

One of the main reasons for thi…

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