When Everyday Statistics Get Depressing

I recently read in an Ocado magazine (I'm well aware I need a hobby) that we spend four days every year in supermarkets. I'm rather partial to Ocado since pleasantly discovering they deliver food in colour-coordinated bags (I'm working on getting a hobby, I promise), but this is a pointless statistic.

The time we spend doing anything will accrete to a scary-sounding amount of time over the space of a year. So, for the first time since school I've applied my Maths GCSE to real life. Here are some other useless daily activities and how much time they take up every year:

1. Refreshing my Twitter feed: 36 minutes


2. Getting my tea bag out of the mug with my fingers, stubbornly insisting it’ll be quicker than finding a spoon: 15 hours


3. Deciding between a dash or a comma: 1 hour, 36 minutes


4. Trying to figure out why people use semicolons: 2 hours


5. Putting things in my ASOS basket before remembering I have no money: 40 hours


6. Watching YouTube videos of unlikely animal friendships consisting of two different species: 30 hours


7. Feeling like I've got something in my eye and trying to locate it: 10 hours, 30 minutes


8. Rubbing hand cream into my hands: 15 hours, 30 minutes


9. Looking up the definition of 'veritable' because I just don't understand it: 2 hours


10. Coming up with names for my future, veritable pet dogs: 4 hours