Average?

spen666

Get up - 6.57am
Car - SilverFord Focus
Number of cars - 1.5
House - Semi-detached on a main street
Holiday - 2 x 10 days in the UK
Evening meals together - Three per week at 5.50pm
Weekly shop - £76.02

Weekly alcohol bill - £12
Entertainment i.e. DVD’s - £15
Best entertainment - Watching TV
Favourite TV show - Dr Who
Time spent watching TV - 9 hours per day
Nights out with friends - Two per month
Nights out as a couple - ‘Every few months’
Big family outing - Once a month
Get home from work - 5.15pm
Go to bed - 10.39pm
Arguments - 1.6 per week
Savings - £3,280

Mortgage - 53% have a mortgage and have paid off 32 per cent

Cash in wallet/purse - £10.31
Neighbours - Two that we speak to
Exercise - Two and half times a week
Home improvements - £559 in the last year
Wider family - Once a week gathering
Quality time together - Two hours per week
Breakfast - Twice a week as a family
Laundry - 5.3 loads per week
Chores - Four hours and 24 minutes, mother does most
Happiness - 80 per cent class themselves as ‘happy’
Wellbeing - 70 per cent claim they are ‘normal’



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Where is the cycling?

£12 on alcohol per week? That surely should be per day?

davis

Eh? 9 hours of TV per day?

How?

Homer Simpson wrote:

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in 8 hours of TV a day.

veronese68

I suppose I'm fairly average in a lot of ways according to that. But, some surprise me. Getting home from work at 5:15pm seems very early. 9 hours TV per day. I hope that's for the whole family. Does a motorbike equate to half a car? Much fewer than 1.6 arguments a week and more than £12 a week on booze.

cambs

bloody hell, now the daily mail are hacking my phone.

spen666

davis wrote:

Eh? 9 hours of TV per day?
How?

Homer Simpson wrote:

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in 8 hours of TV a day.

per FAMILY - not that hard if 2 or more kids in family

joelsim

9 hours TV per day.

2 hours quality time together per WEEK.

Nuff said.

spen666

Joelsim wrote:

9 hours TV per day.

2 hours quality time together per WEEK.

Nuff said.

Proof that TV is not quality?

dhope

spen666 wrote:

Joelsim wrote:

9 hours TV per day.

2 hours quality time together per WEEK.

Nuff said.

Proof that TV is not quality?

Not when the favourite is Dr Who...

Headhuunter

Does the average person really get home at 5.15pm? Bloody hell.... I don't even finish til 6 at the very, very earliest. Even if I crack out pretty much on time, I'm not home til 7 and usually I'm not home til 7.30pm. If I go to the gym it's more like 9.30pm...

rf6

£12 a week on booze????? I probably should spend that, but I'm afraid it's way, way more!

roger_merriman

cycling isn't that popular so mr/mrs average probably doesn't bar one weekend a year around the park with kiddywinky.

On sunday I rode from Whitton to Hampstead Heath, and back to Hampton the number of cyclists I saw was low, might not even of run out of fingers...

where as I saw roads jamed full of cars, vans buses etc.....

Headhuunter

roger merriman wrote:

cycling isn't that popular so mr/mrs average probably doesn't bar one weekend a year around the park with kiddywinky.

On sunday I rode from Whitton to Hampstead Heath, and back to Hampton the number of cyclists I saw was low, might not even of run out of fingers...

where as I saw roads jamed full of cars, vans buses etc.....

This is very true. It always amuses me when Londoner rant and rave about cyclists and claim that they should be taxed, insured and licenced, yet outside London, in reality most people have a BSO at the back of the garage which comes out twice a year for a ride round a lake or something with the kids and then goes back in. Licencing cyclists would be so pointless!

rick_chasey

Headhuunter wrote:

Does the average person really get home at 5.15pm? Bloody hell.... I don't even finish til 6 at the very, very earliest. Even if I crack out pretty much on time, I'm not home til 7 and usually I'm not home til 7.30pm. If I go to the gym it's more like 9.30pm...

Aw, life as a headhunter is tough eh?

I'd suggest most working Londoners are not particularly 'average'.

Or at least, most working Londoners who sit in front of a PC all day.

clarkey cat

Hi we've not spoken before but my name is Headhunter

SimonAH

Jees.

Alcohol bill closer to £60 per week.

Savings right now only just north of sod all - living hand to mouth until the old house FINALLY sells (this buyer is doing my crust in).

Quality time with family at least three hours per day (a little less during the week but loads more at the weekends)

Home at 5:15 (smuggety smug smug) if I'm in the office, once or twice a week home very late (or not at all) if visiting customers.

Nights out with friends, one or two per month. Nights out with familiy about the same. Tend to entertain at home rather than out.

One car, one motorcycle, four bicycles.

rjsterry

G
Get home from work - 5.15pm

Pfffft.

Seriously, there must be some pretty early finishers to counterbalance most of London.

roger_merriman

rjsterry wrote:

G
Get home from work - 5.15pm

Pfffft.

Seriously, there must be some pretty early finishers to counterbalance most of London.

or shift workers, I be working 2.30 til 10pm today, other days I start at 7am finish at 2pm etc, or work 2pm til 2pm on a sleep over.

MonkeyMonster

I chuckled at the weekly shop value... Goddam waitrose ruinning that by a long way.

SmellTheGlove

These two intrigued me:
Wider family - once a week gathering
Arguments - 1.6 per week

Get up 6.57 is very accurate, but how the hell does anyone get home at 5-15 after that, bl**dy part-timers (or more likely, damn lies and statistics).
Evening meals nearer 7pm for us, just a habit.

Anyhow, mostly pretty average Joe despite the commuting habit - however my day off (today) is pure rock and roll, babysitting the blokes who are fitting some new windows, comfortably wiping out the 'average' home improvement budget for the next three years.
Still, TdF about to roll on ITV4 so not all bad.

rick_chasey

SmellTheGlove wrote:

Still, TdF about to roll on ITV4 so not all bad.

Really? It's a rest day today.

alan_sherman

If its a family average then it includes kids who get home at what, 3:30 from school?

Specialized Needs

Rick Chasey wrote:

SmellTheGlove wrote:

Still, TdF about to roll on ITV4 so not all bad.

Really? It's a rest day today.

Probably the re run of yesterday's highlights.

SmellTheGlove

Specialized Needs wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

SmellTheGlove wrote:

Still, TdF about to roll on ITV4 so not all bad.

Really? It's a rest day today.

Probably the re run of yesterday's highlights.

...indeed a rest day (below average reading skills!)