Comments on: benefit #25 – less time shopping (more productive life)

By: Fauzy

Fauzy — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:58:01 +0000

Who those who blindly thing it’s 23 minutes. the fact is.. what joshua take is an AVERAGE TIME no the real time though. e.g : taken from 50 Million people.

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By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:45:37 +0000

Does that include grocery shopping?

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:33:32 +0000

these numbers do seem low. it can take me 90 minutes to get in and out of the grocery store (because it is HUGE – i shop there for lower prices) and i’m only shopping for one person.

believe me – i do not want to spend that time at the grocery store.

By: Vivace

Vivace — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:08:54 +0000

But I like wandering around the mall. If I have to spend my Saturdays productively, pft, I’ll take overtime.

By: Willow

Willow — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:07:45 +0000

I agree with Charley that the numbers are low, especially if you include online shopping. I knew there was a reason I hate to shop!

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By: Charley

Charley — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:13:37 +0000

I am wondering if that number (23 Minutes) isn’t a bit low? Rhetorically speaking, does it count the time spent shopping online? The aimless browsing (window shopping) for books on Amazon, reading reviews, or ITunes etc.

To me that’s still shopping and still time spent that could be better allocated, in general. The graphic is very telling about how much time we waste overall.

I took the baby triplets to the mall on sunday, partly because we needed to get out of the house (Buffalo + Snowy Winter + Needy babies = Cabin Fever), partly because my wife has been dropping baby weight and needed a few things. We were there for about four hours. Now, granted, we had to feed and change each kid, so that took up two hours. And we had a bite to eat in the food court which was another thirty minutes. But still, it was a fair chunk of time that could have been better spent.

- Charley