Every single day I have to unravel my headphone knot. If my ipod+headphones go in my pocket for anything longer than 5 min this is the problem I face. Today I had enough and decided to put this in perspective:
Amount of my life wasted = (3 times per day) x (45 sec to unravel) x (5 days per week) x (52 weeks per year) x (40 years of my life where I could be using these types of earphones)
= 1,404,000 seconds
= 390 hours
= 16.25 days
= 2+ weeks
Update! Related thought I just had: How much of our time is spent pooping?
(1.5 times per day) x (7.5 min per session) x (7 days per week (no holidays here!)) x (52 weeks per year) x (75 years per human life)
= 213 days = 30 weeks = 0.58 years. If you count the time also spent peeing, washing our hands and getting to the bathroom etc., we easily spend a year of our lives doing excretion-related tasks!
Moreover, is this time wasted? Does Lifehacker have a solution for this?
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Hooo boy I am not a numbers type of girl, but thinking this way is really useful! or…depressing! Out of all the iProducts out there, they don’t have a handy-dandy cord organizer?
Take 15 seconds to spool them around your iPod before you put it away and they won’t get tangled. Now you’re only wasting 3 days of your life.
Here’s a method that will solve your problem:
http://lifehacker.com/software/life-hacks/keep-headphone-wires-from-getting-tangled-152499.php
Before discovering this method I actually spent entire Metro rides iPod-less as I tried to untangle my headphones.