A new poll has found that the average woman spends EIGHT YEARS of her life shopping. I’ll give you a minute to digest that…
Have you recovered yet? This news makes me happier than ever that I found out about The Compact. On my deathbed, I don’t think I’ll wish I had shopped MORE.
Much of the shopping women do is for their family: buying household essentials and keeping them fed and clothed. But the average woman apparently also goes window shopping 51 times a year. Wow. Well, it’s not news to me that I’m not the “average woman.” That’s okay.
The poll found that women make an average of 301 individual shopping trips per year, for a total of 399 hours. In my union, that would be just one hour short of the minimum hours you need to work to keep up your membership.
301 individual shopping trips per year??? There are only 365 days in a year, so people shop almost every day? That’s inconceivable to me, Compact or not. I have never in my life shopped nearly every day.
The average woman also spent 40 hours looking for shoes. An entire workweek!
The only part of this poll that doesn’t depress me is the 31 hours women spend shopping for books.
I do need to shop for food and essentials, I’ll estimate that is easily less than 100 hours per year.
And here’s how I’ll be spending the time I’m NOT shopping, about 300 hours: reading, writing, walking, learning, spending time with my husband and my friends, trying new recipes, traveling, seeing plays, attending concerts, watching movies, listening to music, taking classes, laughing… and the list goes on and on…
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What do you think? How many years of your life will you spend shopping? What would you rather be doing? Weigh in with your thoughts in the Comments section.
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