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Sleep and buy food, those are my picks.

Why are people responding to your post like it's serious? It couldn't be more obvious satire if it had a blinking neon sign that said 'THIS IS SATIRE' next to it. Sometimes satire needs the '/s', but not when it is super obvious like this.

Unless you're pretty advanced in your field, it can be pretty difficult to find a job that is willing to give you work hours on your terms like that.

Nice jab at toxic positivity.

Wrong: medidate with your hoover for added oneness, socialize with your food so that you can dominate the conversation as you devour it, and do your 10,000 steps at work on your boss's face.

No, you misread. They said shower once. Total. Not per day.

I don't even shower every day.

Rich people do in fact pay people to do that stuff. Really one salary needs to be able to support two people, or this society thing just doesn't work.

WFH has been a life saver honestly. I make sure to get everything that needs to be done for work done, but now if I finish my daily work or on my lunch I can do dishes, prep dinner, start the laundry. this is time that in office would spent "around the water cooler" or just wasting time. I normally get more work done when I'm at home than in the office tbh.

If I don't shower after every sleep, my hair is disgustingly greasy and misshapen and I'm generally smelly. I look, smell and feel absolutely unacceptable though my standards aren't high in that regard.

I can tell whether my wife has showered because I've known her so long, but she's still entirely presentable for, if she wishes, days on end.

It's entirely unfair.

Yeah a shower a day is way over the top

“waist time” could be a great euphemism for over eating…

5 hours to live the rest of your life day to day.

What if you want to work out? That leaves 3.5 hours. 30 minutes to put together breakfast and dinner. 2.5 hours. Any errands you need to run? House or yard? Family or kids? God forbid you want to take care of yourself at all.

Yeah....their complaints are completely valid.

Your post glazed over:

• the time it takes to use the treadmill
• the time needed for personal stuff at home (banks, bills, maintenance, planning)
• shower is indeed 30 minutes from picking the clothes to dropping them in the hamper. Thats on days theres no other maintenance,
• the time to buy the food you want to prep (that's if you didnt spend a considerable amount of time budgeting and couponing on this economy)
• the time to prep the food you just made, the big enough freezer to store it, the containers and the time to store and organize it.
• if you have pets, vacuuming regularly is a thing
• we haven't mentioned anything about friends and family time, nevermind everything that comes with having kids
• you're forgetting every other human aspect of how doing stuff works, 4 x 2 hour tasks never take 8 hours whatever it is.
• if you have to get/drop off your car at the shop, plan for holidays, trips, gifts, birthdays, events
• we're not even getting into working 2 jobs because 1 doesn't pay enough (which is the reality for most).

By your own admission and being generous with the above, we spend more than 80% of our time subsisting, which becomes increasingly more difficult the less money you make. What happens to Saturday shopping and meal prep when your paycheck is monday and you had a big expense that ate up what little savings you had?

You're making the rich man's equivalent argument of "just don't be poor". Even if the numbers aren't exactly as she put it, the point remains the same. This is /r/personalfinance level disillusionment

5 is incorrect. Most people have an unpaid lunch, not part of the 8 hour workday, so that's 4 hours left to do everything else.

Because you used your weekend researching,shopping and meal prepping, meals only take ten minutes to take out and get ready, but you skipped actually eating which is 30 minutes for dinner, and 10 for breakfast. If you have a family dinner is an hour, breakfast is 30 min. No family - 3hr20min With family -2hr30min

Housework- you say 20 minutes which for men is pretty accurate - they average 19 minutes a day, but women average 49 minutes a day. Single Men down to 3hr Women with families down to 1hr40min

The average time it takes to fall asleep is 10-20 minutes. That's not part of the 8 hours. 15min Add 15 minutes for using the toilet a day 6-7 times urinating (average) plus hand washing. Minus 1/3 happens at work. 10 min. Add 5 minutes to poop. 15min Additional grooming - the absolute minimum is to brush your teeth twice a day, dry and brush your hair, do a professional style, coordinate a professional outfit, iron, and dress. Nail clipping, sunscreen, whatever. This stuff takes time. 15 min absolute minimum a day if you have low standards for your appearance and don't have a very professional job. Up to an hour if you do. That's 45 minutes minimum (though realistically you're not doing all of that at Max efficiency every day. Single Men down to 2hr15min Women with families down to 55 min

any additional chores (maybe not daily, but at least once a week you have to do an unusual task like replacing work clothes, buying medicine, home repair/maintenance, oil change, need a coat. Maybe some weeks there's nothing, but other weeks, three things happen.

So if your boss calls you for a scheduling issue, or you want to bathe your child, or your pet throws up, you're easily down to no time at all for yourself after you've slaved away for maximum efficiency.

Forget volunteering. Forget religion. Forget getting to know your kids, or dating, or self improvement.

I cannot imagine a world where I think regular average people have enough leisure time.

A few points-

My job is at a computer. A height adjustable desk and a walking treadmill have revolutionized my life, so good call there.

Shower may be 30 minutes, but you forget the time it takes to mentally prepare to shower. You forget the time spent staring at yourself in the mirror going over every flaw and or singing and dancing. And then once in the shower the time it takes to stand under the hot water and go over old arguments to come up with the ideal comebacks you should have said. When else am I supposed to do that. Though lately I've been using my tablet to watch TV in the shower, so this increases my shower time to about 40 minutes, but I also knock watching TV shows off my list. That was on the list right?

Most people probably don't have to vacuum every day. personally my family keeps bringing home animals. Animals with hair. I've found I do need to vacuum every day and it's still not enough and all my clothes are always covered in cat hair and they get into my feet as sharp little hair splinters. Please send help.

If you live alone then sure that leaves you five hours. If you have kids you'd better spend those five hours with your family! You get maybe one hour after they go to bed, if you're lucky and they went to bed on time and stayed there. You're probably going to need to take the time away from sleepy time.

And weekends are when you make up for that sleep deficit. Oh wait, you can't. The kids get up early and need breakfast. The dogs need to eat and go out. Your wife made plans for all of you. Enjoy your day with the in-laws. What was that you were saying about glazing over?

Man, life would be so much easier if I liked the taste of boot half as much as you do.

The other comments summed up the fallacies of your "argument" nicely, so no need to repeat them.