does spending increase happiness or anxiety?

By are large you are right, as far as an unmarried person without a bf/gf is concerned. But most of us have uncontrollable expense forced by circumstance. Expenditure by parents, spouse, sons and daughters, bf/gf. Social functions. Presentations when others invite. Religious functions. In Indian philosophy humans get three types of anxieties (persons of all religions including atheists): 1. Caused by physical factors 2. Caused by superhuman factors 3. Caused by our own mind -psychological or psychiatric (or soul for those who believe in soul). These are called "taapa trayams" (three anxieties). These will remain as long as we say "I" or "My" eg. My wife, my husband etc. Then we are not monks to get them rid off. Even when we spend for a necessity, anxieties can arise because sometimes we may have to forego another necessity. Suppose you are paying for repair of your car which broke down unexpectedly, you may be on that date forced to spend the money intended for home loan instalment or repair. Till you again mobilise adequate funds for the home loan instalment, you will have anxiety. I am not trying to argue or impose my ideas on you, but somehow there seems to be some unhappiness associated with 'when money goes out' till it is recouped. Our budgets are based on assumptions which are based on past and present. But future may turn out to be totally different. Tax increases by Govt., shortages of goods, etc. change the entire picture.