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what do you do with your free time?
Enjoying life my friend. Wife and kids, they are there to make your life fulfilled, not to be a nuisance or chores, as the tool had one of the fields - I put there 0, I don't have any chores to do in my life.
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Yeah, as a dad of 2 kids under 4, I ended up having negative free hours. I put 54 hours of parenting a week, because it is non stop on the weekends for about 12 hours a day, and 5 hours or so on weekdays (getting them up and ready for daycare in the morning, then playing, feeding and putting them down at night.) I do get some chores done during that time, which is probably how I am able to exist with what ends up bei…
I live in Tanzania and here any kid that is above the age of 2 has free rein to go wherever they want. Maybe it's not a better way (though I suspect it is), but it is certainly easier (assuming you don't have 8 children like most people here though).
I'm convinced that kids in the developed world are so safe and so likely to see adulthood that in order to move the needle on safety even the slightest, we have to dump a huge amount of time and money into it.
Okay so the infant mortality rate in Canada is at about 4 per 1000 (about 38 per 1000 in Tanzania). How do we improve that? Well let's dump an insane amount of stress and panic on parents about which way their children are facing when they sleep. That's one of thousands of examples I could come up with if pressed. We are way way way into diminishing returns here. We have so few problems that we are obsessing over error margins worth of added safety at the cost of exponential parenting efforts.
I asked my dad how they let my brothers and I wander the suburb on our own as kids. Weren't they afraid we'd be kidnapped or hit by a car or drown in the river? My dad said they never knew they were supposed to be worried. It just didn't really register as a thing. It sure as hell was a far safer place to grow up than where they did.
There's also another possible angle to consider. Imagine if I got all the parents in town together and said, "so we have concluded that a healthy childhood is one full of risk and freedom and adventure. We need everyone to take the proverbial training wheels off and let your kids be kids. However this will mean that some of your children aren't going to make it to adulthood. It's just the nature of this kind of upbringing."
Well I know the author of this certainly has more free time than me. 7 hours a week at the gym? What and incredibly laid back lifestyle.
However, it's just a 4 day standard weight lifting routine (1 hr/day) but includes total time door to door (changing, commuting, lifting, commuting back). I enjoy this though, so aside from the mood/longevity benefits would do it anyways.
I think commute time should count two or three times. I sit in the car for 80 minutes a day and I am totally shot in the evening so I get nothing done even if I have time. . On the days I work from home I work the same amount. After work I relax for half an hour and can do things after. Commuting is a real soul killer in my view.
Eh, I do ~70min each way (in a shitbox with no A/C no less) and I still manage to do stuff in the evening. I think counting it once makes sense.
I don't really consider sleeping, eating or fitness wasted time really, you basically need it and most I personally find it enjoyable and excluding sleeping, it's practically a use of free time. I think would love some checkbox that signifies a "waste" in a sense. Also, your application doesn't seem to like accidental space-bars being pressed in inputs. Causes NaN and its hard to figure out why. Regardless pretty coo…
From there, I view the remaining time as truly open, not requiring working, or general meat sack maintenance. Categorization can definitely go either way though. Part of the message, aside from just quantifying how limited time is, would be to find enjoyment where you can in your 'mandatory' activities too as they'll represent the bulk of your life.
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Yep. It's hard to resist. I have 12 kids. I sure want time for random stuff... and then I realize the Sun is rising and I haven't slept. That's with a 40-hour work week, a 3-minute commute, and none of that gym/fitness time.
That’s incredible...what is your food budget?
Well I know the author of this certainly has more free time than me. 7 hours a week at the gym? What and incredibly laid back lifestyle.
Author here - I would consider my lifestyle intentionally laid back, yes (to the capacity I'm able to at least) :) However, it's just a 4 day standard weight lifting routine (1 hr/day) but includes total time door to door (changing, commuting, lifting, commuting back). I enjoy this though, so aside from the mood/longevity benefits would do it anyways.
I dimly remember a time in my life where what you're describing was possible, but these days I'm just happy if I can do an okay job at work and still find time to hit the machines in my house. It is definitely a difference in our attitudes towards this activity that you don't call that "free" time.
Well I know the author of this certainly has more free time than me. 7 hours a week at the gym? What and incredibly laid back lifestyle.
I'd say an average of 30 minutes/day of gym/fitness is the bare minimum, but even double that can be very beneficial in many respects. You should find the time
I'm absolutely thrilled if I can find the time coinciding with the energy to do 30m a day at the gym. But as any parent who is not offloading all the work onto a beleaguered spouse can tell you: it's pretty rare when you have toddlers.