Brits spend 47 years doing THESE activities
29,565 are roughly the number of days we have in a lifetime based on average life expectancy in the UK. And yet, whilst we think we are efficient with our time, little do we know that life ‘admin’ racks up a significant number of hours. Clearitwaste.co.uk have therefore gone to the lengths of finding out how long Brits typically spend doing things on repeat over our entire lifetime - and the results are mind-blowing!
Time spent over a lifetime:
Experts claim we should be striving for around eight hours sleep a night, yet figures have shown we get just over six hours of shut-eye, meaning we sleep for roughly 171,914 hours over our lifetime – 7,163 days.
28.5 million Brits now own a TV (as of 2019), and no matter how much we’re told that sitting in front of the TV is bad for our eyes, nothing is stopping us from stacking up dozens of hours until we’re going cross-eyed.
Clearitwaste.co.uk calculated that we spend on average 30 hours (1,800 minutes) watching TV/films every week, which over a lifetime equates to 116,640 hours – that’s a mind-blowing 4,860 days – more than 16% of your total days on earth*!
With more than 15 million singletons registered to online dating apps, it’s somewhat unsurprising this appears next on the list. We devote 600 minutes on dating apps every week – a lot of potential love to be had. Over a lifetime, we could be spending nearly 40,000 hours (1,620 days) trying to fall in love.
Considering just how long we spend online; you’d expect to see this top of the list. However, Clearitwaste found that online/internet ranks fourth – just over 26,000 hours over a lifetime is dedicated to online queries.
Other key results:
Given the UK’s track record with the weather and spending what seems like our entire lifetime cold, wet, and feeling all doom and gloom, Brits waste an astonishing 150 minutes of their week complaining about the weather. Overall, Brits will spend 9,720 hours OR 405 days of their life praying for sunnier days.
Relative to how much time we spend on dating apps, and in a bid to find the one, we interestingly spend a fraction of this dating. Experts believe the optimum first date experience should be no more than 57 minutes, and once a week, meaning you could be spending a whopping 7,387 hours dating – equivalent to 308 days.
Recent research found that the UK loses around £6.9 billion every year because of traffic jams. Clearitwaste’s study discovered that we waste around 57 minutes EVERY week waiting in traffic. Across our lifetime, that’s 3,694 hours (154 days)!
Likewise, trying to find somewhere to park is one of life’s biggest frustrations, and it appears we are spending around 2,268 hours over our lifetime.
