Fun: More Important Than Many Realize (NAPSA)Thenext time someone EB] tells you to be a little more serious, you may prefer to remind him that having fun is nojoke;it’s actually fundamental to the way peoplelive. The Ritz Cracker Fun-alysis, a survey of 1,000 consumers nationwide conducted by TSC, a division of Yankelovich, Inc., reveals that were a society built on a foundation of fun. The survey found the average American spends six hours a day havingat least a little fun (nearly one in five Americans average 10+ hours a day); 83 percent say they do something fun every day and 63 percent say they are having more fun now than everbefore. Who’s Having The Most Fun? Who has fun? Redheads, Repub- Don’t laugh—or rather, do. Studies suggestfun plays a crucial role in all aspectsoflife. is an important part of choosing a job; While 58 percent of Americans think money is more important than fun, 42 percentstill say having licans, people over 62 years old and married people, according to the fun at work is more important than making good money; found: e Kighty-four percent of people either strongly or somewhat that Ritz Cracker Fun-alysis, which also would rather marry someone who is a lot of fun than someone who has a lot of money; e Kighty-four percent also believe having fun can add years to yourlife (on average saying it adds 10 years); Seventy-nine percent say fun influences where theylive; Seventy-seven percent of those employed say the ability to have fun e Seventy-four percent agree the ability to have fun is an important quality in a presidential candidate. Find Out About Your Fun Side For more information, games, contests and recipes or to take your own survey of fun, you can visit www.ritzcrackers.com/openforfun. The survey was fielded in November 2007. Findings in this report have a margin of error of + /3.1 percent.
