What makes you happy? - things or experiences?

Hello people

this is my first thread on this forum

just interested in a conversation/debate/dialogue on this topic

what makes you happy

buying stuff like a new car, Sofa, TV...

or

Spending on experiences like on a spa, holiday. Expensive meals ...

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Good food, good company and plenty of laughs makes me feel great.

JUST WAKING IN THE MORNING,  MAKES ME HAPPY FOR A START,      from then on,   anything that happens is good,      SEEING my youngest grandson,  6,  coming top of his class in his first year of school,  and the smile on his face,   priceless,

Yes Seth I do ,I also remember turning on the tap and red water came out ..Including small stones . 

There were only two places in the world that the Royal Bavy would not pick up water ..Adelaide and Aden ...

Really Pete? turn on the water in Gib and Mosquito Larvae and little red worms came out.

bought some nice shoes and a dress in ADEN,     many years ago,

When I came out to Australia in 1961 I remember changing a pound note for twenty five shillings in Aden ...

Sandi might remember when  John Rice Avenue in Elizabethh was a dirt road . Or Gerry might rember when the the road from McKay to townville was a single track.

My first Trip by plane was from Adelaide to Melbourne and we stopped in Mt Gambier to refuel...

I love reminiscing Cane cutting and mill working in the early sixties ...

Flying from Melbourne to Adelaide in 1969 and some people actually had chickens with them while others were in Evening Dress, I thought it very strange but even the chickens went quiet except for the murmuring of people praying when the Landing Gear wouldn't go down. Scariest flight I have been on.

"some people actually had chickens with them"

just proves what a prejudiced, sterile La di da pretentious society we have become.

"." To have chickens on an aircraft when planes flying into Australia were still being externally sprayed and all passengers inside the planes had to remain seated until individually sprayed was quite peculiar especially with the strict quarantine in place on all goods coming in.

i obviously should have added that was one of the happiest days of my life to have survived the landing but assumed anyone reading it would realise that, I always feel relief and  very happy when flying to land without a hitch in todays world too.

Just as Catsahoy says

Love to be able to wake up in the morning :)

And then get ready to go to work ... life is good to those who make it that way.

welcome back SUZE,   havent seen you for some time,     i thought you may have been holed up with SOLOMON,    keeping him company,   and out of trouble,  lol,

I think " holed up" maybe politicaly incorrect.     

HA HA PETE,    yes, i suppose i could have phased it better,    but its probably closer to the truth, lol,    ok,   WELCOME BACK SUZE,     thought you may have been keeping SOLOMON company,  in his lonely hours,      ;that better', lol,

Thank you Cats .... a girl cannot keep a secret anywhere without everybody finding out .... Solomon sends his regards.

HI SUZE,   give him a BIG HI from me,   and tell him MUSTAFFA  wants his money,    HE said SOLLY had promised to pay him,    mines all gone,

This knowledge makes me happy...and would like to pass it on to those who need it:

                  Image result for quote about telling the truth

Have a lovely day everyone !!!

Sometimes wisdom flows out of the mouth of an unlikely source.

Lying is not always wrong. 

And if that is the law then lying is always wrong - even if telling the truth would produce far better consequences: so if I lie to a terrorist death squad about the whereabouts of the people that they’re hunting, and so save their lives, I have in fact done wrong, because I broke the rule that says lying is wrong.

Fleur lied about me on here a couple days ago Pete? Boo hoo - Boo hoo - lol -   said/ told the "newbie"  PM   -  that  I was your sister and that why we both so nasty!   lol lol lol - What a freakin' lying moron!!!!!!! Disgraceful!!!!!

I never bothered to reply BTW - too ridiculous!!!  :-)

I am happy when I can help my friends when they need it,they never ask I just keep my eyes open and see when they need it

Hello Jessej

nice.

youre friends are very lucky 

..yeah Jessej is delightful!   Just a pity so damned "homophobic"  ....  lol 

Hello Foxy

You seem to know all the intimate details of everyone here. 

Are you a claivoyant? jessej made a nice post, and you smear her. why ?

Listen Denzel - when u been here over 2 years (and something tells me you are NOT the "newbie" you make yourself out to be ok?) - then you will know the "background" of people on here! Anyone - on here - if they are honest - can tell you jessej is the worst "homophobe" on here ok? So stick it where the sun don't shine sweet thing - use Abby's spoon -  and stop "ghosting" 
me on here ok?   

Seth & Pete - anyone else who would like a look

Neither of you would recognise the River Torrens area now.  The parks have been extended right along with bike tracks, picnic areas with playgrounds for children, gas barbecues for people to use. 

Seth they still have band concerts in the rotunda.


Go here to see how it's changed

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=images+river+torrens+area+adelaide&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=t5UbVfjUNIiV8QXqqYCABQ&ved=0CDQQ7Ak&biw=1280&bih=643

Wow thanks Sandi is that a new bridge from the festival theatre to the Afelaide Oval ..

Sandi thanks for all this, The adelaide swimming pool, back in the 20s if I remember right, was alongside the torrens, the water was straight from the river,brown, as schoolboys we learnt to swim by the instructor holding a long pole with a rope which was tied around your waist and then had to jump in.

Pete on our way from Ipswich to Adelaide we visited an Aunt on the Nth Side of the harbour, there was no harbour bridge then so it was a crossing by ferry.

Wow Seth , My Dad came out in 1918 / 19 bringing troops hme from WW2 . He knew Sydney well and loved it. He used to tell me that there was no bridge and very little settlement on the North Shore.

He also used to take the train out to Parramatta which was out in the country. Now it's the population centre of Sydney...

when I first went through Canberra in 1964 there was no Lake Burley Griffen...and. The road up to Mackay was a single track and dirt road up to Townsville . 

Yes Pete, that's the new bridge which links up with both the Casino and the Adelaide Football Ground and you can access the Festival Theatre too.

The black looking oval shaped roof is part of the new hospital.  The Railway will go under the hospital building into the old railway station.  Come up the stairs from the Railway and hop on the new trams that stop there before continueing down King William Street and off to Glenelg.

Lots of Ferries around those days Seth and the water is still brown.  The old Popeye still runs up and down the river too.

The old Pie Cart is gone now though. Couldn't have the hoity toities passing the commoners having their pies on the way to the Casino.They made a big mistake there.It was very popular place.

I wasn't around in the 20's Seth so I don't remember that.

 

Has the pie  art gone from Victoria Square outside the Old Post Office .?

Sandi can't you see I'm in misery
We made a start now were apart
There's nothing left for me
Love has flown all alone
I sit and wonder why-yi-yi-yi
Why, you left me oh Sandi

Yes it's been gone for many years.  The whole of Victoria Square has been altered.

As a family on the way home from a concert we would have what was called a 'floater' at the pie cart, a pie in a bed of peas.

All the good things have or are disappearing, the train ride to Henley in the steam train was exciting, and who can forget that exhilarating ride on the new modern electic train/tram to glenelg beach.

The pie floater is a London tradition with the pie and peas being doused in liquor (gravy) . They are sold at the Pie and Eel shops where you get your Jellied Eels from. 

As a kid I used to collect jam jars and sell to the Pie And Eel shop for appence each. Then go and buy a doorstop ' a big chunk of bread with thick dripping and salt" from the railway caf.,.

Crikey Pete, now I feel ill, jellied eels? I've been that hungry when I could have eaten a cow on the run, but eels! jellied! be like eating jellyfish.

Now dripping on a crusty bread was great, especially if the dripping had been used that many times with a roast that the taste was something to kill for.

Around the middle of the nineteenth century the street sellers came under threat from newly opening pie shops. Mayhew writes ‘a few years ago the street pie trade was very profitable, but it has been almost destroyed by the pie shops. The penny pie shops, the street men say, have done their trade a great deal of harm. These shops have now got mostly all the custom, as they make the pies much larger for the money than those sold in the street.’

Victorian London saw a huge growth in population: a movement of poor and agricultural workers from rural areas, Irish immigrants fleeing the great famine and refugees from political and religious persecution in Europe. These were poor families living in appalling slum conditions and probably with no access to cooking facilities. The new pie shops selling the combination of pie and mash and eels in liquor provided hot food cheaply and business flourished.

http://gkelly.london/history/

Hello All

i found a little gem amongst the bile between some sad folk.

in case you missed it

 

from my uncle Seth

cats thanks for that, but to be truthful, the real secret is not money, as that can give some a bloated ego, it is being satisfied with what ever you have.

Hi Denzal I mean lost nephew, great to rediscover you, Family doing well after being made bankrupt? I'd lend you some money but a certain gold digger took the lot.

Oh That uncle Seth !!!! 

Pete!!! is their more than one? has someone stolen my identity? shame..

Denzel your Uncle Seth is being very modest , he is still a multi having been a property developer for many years , but modesty and his devotion to his extended family and faith and King And country is the mark ofthe man ..,,

Pete you know me well, no way will I let my successful financial life influence my feelings of superiority, I am very modest about it all.

 

Yeth  I have theen the thines " Theth and Thons " all over.,.

"I'd lend you some money but a certain gold digger took the lot."

$eth

You have the hide ..... just look at me ..... cannot even afford

a grey YLC outfit.

You left me destitute

GD

GD I mean ex GD, I knew you were in trouble as you were fading away, hoping things will improve when sanity reigns again.

Well, I'd be more happy buying new stuff. I'm not really a materialistic type of girl. I just believe I can create a lot of fun and memorable experiences with these stuff. Example, getting a new car could lead to traveling with my family and friends. But it really depends on the situation actually. There are times that I find it happier to spend for experience.

Sally Williams

welcome SALLY,   nice to see a new face on the page,   

Sally I am the one, as.I see you prefer to spend money for experience?

If the exGD is in a good mood! could supply a reference.

$eth :)

There is some experience you still lack ... of course I could help you in that department :)

GD

Waiting in expectation!!!!

Wow. Thanks for the warm welcome! :)

To answer the question posed Denzel what I enjoy most is getting together with friends and having a great time talking and laughing.

The second thing I enjoy is a good home cooked baked roast lamb and veg.

A bit of retail theraphy is also good but it is only a fleeting enjoyment.  

Have never been a person who needs to flaunt what they have...not my scene at all.

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