Cash in your happiness

A NEW study confirms the theory that you don’t have to be a millionaire to be happy.

Insurers Sun Life carried out research and marketing director Ian Atkinson said: “Our survey shows a link between happiness and spare cash – stronger than the link between happiness and income.

“The happiest households have £194 spare per week, which per person is £82.

“This means that if the average household wants to become one of the cash happiest, they don’t need thousands – just an extra £91 per week, which works out as less than £40 extra per person per week, or just over a fiver a day.

“This may sound like a lot but when you think buying a takeaway coffee and a sandwich every day costs about £5, it doesn’t sound quite so challenging.”

Five per cent of those questioned were up to £100 in the red every month while about 20 per cent were more than £100 overspent.

Just under a quarter of those quizzed had between £800 and £2000 to spare at the end of the month.