Maybe this study has it backwards -- it's not that takeout will make you happy, but that buying things makes you unhappy. Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic

Maybe this study has it backwards -- it's not that takeout will make you happy, but that buying things makes you unhappy. Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up has been fairly popular in my circles, where throwing out lots of things you never use seems to give you more room to hang out with friends and family. (And if you're short on time, the manga adaptation The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up was just recently released in North America in English.)