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Sunday, January 22, 2012

The "How often do you change the sheets on your bed?" Story

It was an ordinary day. Listening to the radio while working at the Gallery in Neffsville, putting some frames together for a few jobs that I am working on. The "Question of the Day" on the squak box is How often do you change the sheets on your bed? I grabbed the phone to try and be the first caller with the right answer. Usually win something when you know the answer first. I had just read in the newspaper the other day what the answer was so I dialed and dialed. Busy signal as usual, and just when I dialed again, someone gave the correct answer. Any guesses? Well, I was looking at other blogs last week and saw one called "On The Edge" which had taken a poll dealing with the frequencies of the things that are necessities in our life. Things from brushing your teeth to washing your hair. The jocks on the radio station had taken one category from the blog to use as their question for today. You know by now that I just have to list a few on my blog. So here goes (answers or percentages from the survey will be at the end):

1. How often do you brush your teeth?
A. Once a day
B. Twice a day
C. Every time I eat

2. How often do you change the sheets on your bed?
A. Once a week
B. Every two weeks
C. Around the time it seems they could get off the bed on their own

3. How often do you exercise
A. If I don't hit the gym, my day is not compete
B. I don't even own sneakers
C. When I have nothing better to do

4. How often do you text
A. Never, I call or talk with people in person
B. Somewhere in the triple digits for the month
C. More than 1,000 texts each month

5. How often do you check your email
A. Once a day
B. I log on when I think of it
C. Constantly

6. How often do you grocery shop
A. I hit up the store once a week
B. Pretty much every day
C. Forget the grocery store, that's what restaurants are for

7. How often do you wash your hair
A. Once a week when I go to the salon
B. Every other day
C. Every morning

8. How often do you wash your car
A. My car is always showroom clean
B. Only when I can no longer recognize my car in the parking lot
C. Never, the rain does it for me for free

And the response, which was taken online .....
1. Twice a day 66%
Once a day 27%
Every time I eat 7%
2. Once every two weeks 41%
Once a week 32%
Around the time .......27%
3. When I have nothing better to do 56%
If I don't hit the gym, my day is not complete 24%
I don't even own sneakers 20%
4. Somewhere in the triple digits for the month 63%
More than 1000 texts each month 20%
Never 17%
5. Constantly 69%
Once a day 22%
I log on when I think of it 9%
6. I hit up the store once a week 70%
Pretty much every day 22%
Forget the grocery store 8%
7. Every morning 60%
Every other day 37%
Once a week when I go to the salon 3%
8. Only when I can no longer ...... 62%
Never ..... 25%
My car is always showroom clean 13%

Interesting survey and you can see that it was taken online with some of the responses. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.

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