I would rather be poor and happy, most things too big or expensive brings the feeling I don’t deserve it anyway
I think wants comes second to needs anyway 
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Yah, it’s hard to be happy when you’re poor with no food security or shelter security. Happy poor is either a myth or a delusion I figure.
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I would rather be happy and poor than rich and unhappy.
Some things are kinda priceless like loyalty, being real , love, care, grace, compassion, support and comfort, kindness, real friendship, respect, hope, spiritual sacred Union in love , sanity, peace, calmness,good sleep and rest, healing light etc
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I’d rather be poor and happy
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Unhappy and rich. Emotions are fleeting, eventually ill be happy again 
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I was previously in an extremely financially secure marriage. We had someone in my ex’s family who paid for most of our bills. We were extremely financially comfortable.
I knew that if I left him, he’d have a team of highly skilled lawyers on his side, I had none,
He didn’t allow me to work. I kept getting jobs to try to get out, and he kept punishing me for having them. He abused me. He was very charming in front of others and everyone took his side.
Leaving him meant walking out the front door with nothing but a bag of clothes.
I left! With nothing but a garbage bag of some clothes.
I found a job making very little money. But it was a job.
Eventually, I met my current husband. He had nothing but a house he had to get a mortgage out on to pay off his ex wife in the divorce. He is disabled and is on disability for both physical disabilities and mental illness. I married him! And I’m so glad I did.
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They say there are communities with no money, that are completely self-sufficient, and people are supposedly just as happy there as in the rich scandinavian countries. Because they can provide in their own basic stuff - food, housing, clothing. But have much stronger connections to each other, nature, etc. I’ll move there, please. With my health back.
So poor and happy. But in such a place. Not in some American big city ghetto with no food and criminality all around - that is not happy.
My society is very rich, but I do not care for it one bit.
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Poor and happy.
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If poor eguals happy I’d choose poor and happy. But if I had options I’d choose phisically and mentally healthy and for sure with some money and assets in my account with decent people around me.
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I’m with you. What good is being rich if your partner abuses you? I would much rather be poor and happy.
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A lot of rich people have ended their lives because of mental health issues. They were very unhappy.
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Haha. I’m definitely going to agree with you @LevelJ1!
The feeling shall pass 
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I’m not sure what it means to be “happy”. I’m just trying for contentment or at least a plan to find it.
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Poor people has less to worry about. Ha ha…i doubt they are happier.
It’s difficult to be happy.
A friend of mine used to say:
I’d rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable
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Take it from me. Money does not buy happiness. You may think it does, buying yourself tat off the internet - to fulfil your need for a bit.
But when your still sitting on your own at 2am in the morning with no one to speak too,
All the money in the world in your bank account, dont mean crap.
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I’m very poor and I can tell you, being rich and unhappy would be much better than this crap.
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In a world where money is security in health food roof protections. Rich and unhappy is better than poor happy but stressed out of your mind with insecurities.
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I’d rather be rich and unhappy because money would buy me happiness eventually.
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