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Women will spend more than eight years of their lives shopping, says a study.
While keeping their families fed and clothed -and indulging in a little retail therapy – the average woman will shop for an astonishing 25,184 hours and 53 minutes over a period of 63 years.
If the average expedition lasted the length of a full working day – from 9am to 5pm – that would be 3,148 days trudging around the shops, or just over eight-and-a-half years.
The poll of 3,000 women, conducted by GE Money, revealed they make an average of 301 shopping trips per year, lasting a total of 399 hours and 46 minutes.
Food shopping can take more than an hour to complete each time. With an average of 84 trips to stock the pantry over a year, that is 94 hours and 55 minutes in the supermarket.
Women also dedicate 90 trips a year to keeping up their appearances – shopping for clothes 30 times, shoes 15 times, accessories 18 times and toiletries 27 times.
A total of 100 hours and 48 minutes is spent hunting for the latest clothing bargains and fashion statements.
A further 40 hours and 30 minutes is spent shopping for footwear, and 29 hours and 31 minutes looking for accessories such as handbags, jewellery and scarves.
Even shopping for more mundane items such as deodorant, shower gel and razors takes women around 17 hours and 33 minutes over one year.
A further 19 trips, or 36 hours and 17 minutes, are used to buy gifts for friends and family.
The poll also showed women will go window shopping 51 times a year, spending 48 hours and 51 minutes just looking for their next purchase.
Stewart Macphail, of GE Money, said: “Women clearly dedicate a lot of time to making sure they find the best deals and the most suitable items for their needs.
“So perhaps the best Christmas present British men could give their wives or girlfriends this year would be to do their fair share of the shopping.”
problem solved.
Tonight I was with my friend Portia who has been contemplating going on this diet for 11 months now. I told her that I have decided to extend the diet for one more year, in light of the fact that there have been so many people interested in joining the effort in the past few weeks (here we go again). When I told Portia it wasn’t too late to realize the benefits of clothing deprivation she hooped and hollered “That’s what I need, a closet colonic.” The visual made me gag. She went on to claim, “Deep within my big, fat, bloated walk-in closet there is a skinny one begging to be free.” Portia, warming to the idea, is going to “think about it,” before she commits. Let me be clear…I am not doing this for another year myself but I will moderate, facilitate, contemplate and write about life post diet. 
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If I thought I was unclear as to what my style was before I embarked upon this diet I am now officially stupified! This week I went to a great clothing swap with lots of really good second hand apparel. I came home with a white t-shirt, a black sweater and a pair of blue jeans. More of the same. There were prints, velvets and fancy skirts, wrap-around-dresses and plenty of accessories and I got….a white t-shirt. I think I’m frozen now that I haven’t bought anything for a while. Clothing is simply not that interesting to me these days, especially if it takes some thinking to put an outfit together. Have I gotten lazy or just more confused. Not sure but I now have seven white t-shirts, over 11 black sweaters and more jeans than I can count. Someone, save me from myself.
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