Make Your Life Easier: Time Wasters

Where does the time go?

Published Sunday, August 01, 2004

What everyday activity eats up too much of your time?

We put that question to visitors to our Web site, washingtonian.com. The winner: commuting, which voters said is the biggest waste of their day.

Here's how assorted activities ranked, by percentage of vote, as time-wasters:

   
Commuting 36%
Watching TV 12%
Surfing the Web 11%
Cleaning the house 6%
Doing laundry 6%
Dealing with spam 5%
Sorting throughjunk mail 4%
Running errands 4%
Making dinner/grocery shopping 3%
Handling paperwork/bill paying 3%
Waiting for home-repair help 2%
Waiting in doctors' offices 2%
Dealing with health insurance 2%
Fixing things aroundthe house 1%
Taking care ofthe yard 1%
Driving the kids around 1%
Other 1%

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