Make Your Life Easier: Time Wasters

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Where does the time go?

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%

Print | 01. Aug 2004 |

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