Shopaholics agree: It takes time to hone a craft.
From scouring the mall for the perfect pair of jeans to loading up the cart with groceries, women spend an average of 399 hours and 46 minutes shopping a year, a new study finds.
Marketing research firm OnePoll.com surveyed 2,000 female shoppers to find out that the typical woman makes 301 trips to the store annually, spending close to 400 hours a year buying clothes, books, food and toiletries, The Motley Fool reported.
Tallied up, that figures out to 81/2 years spent shopping over 63 years — or 3,148 days racked up over the course of a lifetime, according to The Motley Fool.
But before anyone starts pointing fingers at the irresistible lure of retail therapy, a breakdown of those hours shows that women spend a large portion of that time on household shopping and routine errands. The average woman spends 94 hours and 55 minutes buying food, making 84 trips to the grocery store annually, the website reported. Shopping for toiletries accounted for an average of 17 hours and 33 minutes.
Still, all those Saturdays at the mall add up. The study found women spend more than 100 hours spread out over 30 annual trips shopping for clothes, and an additional 40 hours and 30 minutes looking for shoes. They also spend an average of 31 hours and 21 minutes a year browsing for books and magazines.
As far as casual looking goes, females spend an average of 49 hours a year window-shopping.
