DEEP CUT — Where Did All The Time Go?!
Today’s deep cut is about the one thing we can’t buy more of… time. Turns out we spend a LOT of it doing stuff we don’t even remember.
Jess Lobdill
2/19/20263 min read
DEEP CUT — “Where Did All The Time Go?!”
“Today’s deep cut is about the one thing we can’t buy more of… time. Turns out we spend a LOT of it doing stuff we don’t even remember.”
1️⃣ Question:
How many total hours does the average person live?
2️⃣ Question:
What was the average human lifespan worldwide in 2024?
3️⃣ Question:
How many YEARS of our life do we spend sleeping?
4️⃣ Question:
If you brush your teeth 4 minutes a day, how much of your life is spent brushing?
5️⃣ Question:
With a 10-mile commute each way, how long do you spend driving in your lifetime?
6️⃣ Question:
How long does someone working 40 hours a week spend working in their lifetime?
7️⃣ Question:
How much time do we spend doing laundry over a lifetime?
8️⃣ Question:
How many years do we spend on our phones or social media?
9️⃣ Question:
How much of our lifetime is spent cooking and eating?
🔟 Question:
How much time does the average person spend on actual vacations in their lifetime?
1️⃣1️⃣ Question:
How long do we spend bathing or showering over a lifetime?
1️⃣2️⃣ Question:
How much of life is spent going to the bathroom?
1️⃣3️⃣ Question:
How many years of our lives do we spend watching TV?
🧮
So What’s Left?
Let’s subtract all that from your 700,000 hour life…
Activity
Hours Spent
Sleeping / in bed
289,080
Working
113,880
Driving
15,330
Brushing teeth
1,440
Laundry
8,760
Phone/social media
56,940
Cooking & eating
52,560
Vacation
13,140
Bathing
13,140
Bathroom time
13,140
Watching TV
70,080
Total used: ≈ 647,500 hours
Out of 700,000 hours…
👉 You have about
52,500 hours left
That’s only…
⏳ About 6 years of actual free, unscheduled life
Six years for:
● hobbies
● friends
● family
● laughing
● building cool stuff
● doing things that actually make memories
🎙 Wrap-Up Line
“So if life gives you about six real years of free time… maybe don’t spend all of it arguing with plywood.”
ANSWERS:
1️⃣ Question:
How many total hours does the average person live?
Answer:
About 700,000 hours in an 80-year life.
That equals:
🕒 42,000,000 minutes
⏱ 2,520,000,000 seconds
Two and a half billion seconds… and somehow we still say “I don’t have time.”
2️⃣ Question:
What was the average human lifespan worldwide in 2024?
Answer:
About 73 years globally.
Modern medicine doubled human lifespan compared to a few centuries ago.
3️⃣ Question:
How many YEARS of our life do we spend sleeping?
Answer:
Around 26 years asleep
Plus 7 more years trying to fall asleep or laying there doom-thinking.
Total in bed: ~33 years
4️⃣ Question:
If you brush your teeth 4 minutes a day, how much of your life is spent brushing?
Answer:
About 60 days total
Two straight months of minty freshness.
5️⃣ Question:
With a 10-mile commute each way, how long do you spend driving in your lifetime?
Answer:
Roughly 1.5–2 years of your life behind the wheel 🚗
6️⃣ Question:
How long does someone working 40 hours a week spend working in their lifetime?
Answer:
About 13 years
And that’s assuming you actually stop at 40 hours… which none of us do 😅
7️⃣ Question:
How much time do we spend doing laundry over a lifetime?
Answer:
About 1 full year
Twelve months of socks disappearing into another dimension.
8️⃣ Question:
How many years do we spend on our phones or social media?
Answer:
Roughly 6–7 years
More than we spend on vacation… by a LOT.
9️⃣ Question:
How much of our lifetime is spent cooking and eating?
Answer:
Around 6 years
That’s elementary school… but for snacks.
🔟 Question:
How much time does the average person spend on actual vacations in their lifetime?
Answer:
Only 1–2 years total
So yes… we work way more than we wander.
1️⃣1️⃣ Question:
How long do we spend bathing or showering over a lifetime?
Answer:
About 1.5 years
That’s a year and a half of being pruney.
1️⃣2️⃣ Question:
How much of life is spent going to the bathroom?
Answer:
Also around 1.5 years 🚽
Life really is just naps and bathroom breaks.
1️⃣3️⃣ Question:
How many years of our lives do we spend watching TV?
Answer:
Around 8 years
That’s a full childhood… but for sitcoms.