95.7 KEZJ - Southern Idaho's New Country » free time http://kezj.com Southern Idaho's Best Country Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:14:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 How Much Time Do You Spend Cleaning House? [POLL] http://kezj.com/how-much-time-do-you-spend-cleaning-house-poll/ http://kezj.com/how-much-time-do-you-spend-cleaning-house-poll/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:35:14 +0000 Jackie http://kezj.com/?p=44405 It's amazing the mess we make on a daily basis.  It's so bad that we spend almost two hours a day, every day, cleaning.

According to a new survey from PR Newswire, the average American adult spends 13 hours a week cleaning.  Women bring that average up . . . cleaning 15.6 hours per week . . . men bring that average down . . . cleaning 10.2 hours per week.

]]> http://kezj.com/how-much-time-do-you-spend-cleaning-house-poll/feed/ 0 Carabou Flickr.com What Would You Do With an Extra 15 Minutes a Day? [POLL] http://kezj.com/what-would-you-do-with-an-extra-15-minutes-a-day-poll/ http://kezj.com/what-would-you-do-with-an-extra-15-minutes-a-day-poll/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:39:06 +0000 Jackie http://kezj.com/?p=42929

If you could get an extra 15 free minutes a day, how would you spend it?  In a new survey from Minneapolis Star Tribune, the most popular answers were . . . classic gender stereotypes.

]]> http://kezj.com/what-would-you-do-with-an-extra-15-minutes-a-day-poll/feed/ 0 Joe Raedle, Getty Images Americans Didn't Use $67 Billion of Vacation Time Last Year http://kezj.com/americans-didnt-use-67-billion-of-vacation-time-last-year/ http://kezj.com/americans-didnt-use-67-billion-of-vacation-time-last-year/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 13:54:57 +0000 Jackie http://kezj.com/?p=8748 Have you used any of your vacation this year? The average American receive less vacation time than the workers in every other country . . . we're not even using the time off we DO get.

According to a survey by Expedia from CNN in 2010, the average American got 18 vacation days . . . but only used 14 of them.

]]> http://kezj.com/americans-didnt-use-67-billion-of-vacation-time-last-year/feed/ 0 Elven Nicky Flickr.com The Average Parent Only Has 93 Minutes of Free Time a Day http://kezj.com/the-average-parent-only-has-93-minutes-of-free-time-a-day/ http://kezj.com/the-average-parent-only-has-93-minutes-of-free-time-a-day/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:33:25 +0000 95.7 KEZJ http://kezj.com/?p=3519

If you ask any parent, at least any good parent, they'll tell you the same thing:  Once you have kids, those kids OWN you.  And here's just how much they own you.

According to a new British survey, the average parent only has 93 minutes of free time a day.  And that's not 93 minutes in a row.  That's 93 minutes grabbing a few free minutes here, a few free minutes there.

Here's how the average parent's day broke down in the survey:

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