The dairy company, Dairygold, located in Munster, Ireland, conducted a
study on how people in Ireland spend the minutes in each day, on average. They
conducted a national survey of over 1,000 people and asked them where their
minutes go.
There are 1440 minutes in a day.
Here are the results:
People in Ireland, on average, spend 390 minutes a day sleeping (6.5
hours), 297 minutes working (less than 5 hours a day, which doesn’t include
talking with colleagues, or taking lunch breaks), 286 minutes with loved ones,
120 minutes relaxing, 58 minutes cooking, 48 minutes commuting to and from
work, 40 minutes complimenting other people on their appearance, 40 minutes exercising, 38 minutes hitting the
alarm snooze button, 37 minutes eating (excluding breakfast), 34 minutes being
affectionate with someone (such as hugging), 32 minutes on grooming (getting
dressed), and 19 minutes having breakfast.
That totals 1439 minutes, so there is one minute remaining.
Dairygold then asked people what they would do with one extra minute. In a
short video the 14 people interviewed indicated the following: 9 (64%) said they would spend the
minute with family and friends (loved ones), 2 (14%) said they would practice their
musical instrument or listen to a favourite song, 1 (7%) said they would sleep for
an extra minue, 1 (7%) said they would do something different, and 1 (7%) said they
would help somebody by giving them a minute of their time.
For more info on the survey visit https://www.facebook.com/YourDairygold/
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international
aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of
Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet
(2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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