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Money can buy happiness, sort of

A Million Bucks!
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A Million Bucks!

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A recent Princeton University study found that “happiness” peaks when a person’s income is about $75,000. But you have to make a whole lot more to actually feel “rich”.

Another study found that 42% of millionaires don’t feel wealthy. It turns out, you have to have about $7.5 million before you can feel both happy and rich.

Just once, we would like the chance to prove that money can’t make us happy.

Herewith, some of our favorite sayings about money and happiness…

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to shop.

You can’t buy happiness, but you can rent it for awhile.

Money can’t buy you love, but it puts you in a better bargaining position.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it

Rich or poor, it’s nice to have money.

We have never been in a situation where having money made it worse.

Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.

And, finally, in the words of the late, great Elizabeth Taylor:

Money is the best deodorant.

Unfortunately, we Record Bin Roulette guys have spent our money on drinking, women and gambling. The rest we spent foolishly.

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John has worked as a professional bassist for 20 years, including a 15 year stint as Musical Director of the Mountain Stage radio program. John has been at KNKX since 1999 where he hosts “All Blues”, is producer of the BirdNote radio program, and co-hosts “Record Bin Roulette”. John is also the recording engineer for KNKX “In-Studio Performances”. Not surprisingly, John's main musical interests are jazz and blues, and he is still performing around Seattle.
John Maynard started working in radio in the seventies as a DJ at Seattle’s KJR AM which at the time was the dominant AM station in the Seattle market. After a brief stint as a restaurateur and night club owner, Maynard returned to radio with Robin Erickson, creating the hugely popular “Robin and Maynard Show.” In the more than 20 years under that marquee, Maynard flew with the Blue Angels, piloted the Goodyear Blimp, sang with Donny Osmond and hung out in a Universal Studios bar with Kojak (Telly Savalas).