Women Spend Three Years Primping

Recent Poll: Women Spend Three Years Of Lives Getting Ready to Go Out, and Men Spend Almost Three Months Waiting for Them!

(CBS)  Women don't take an eternity to get dressed up for a night on the town -- only three years!

A beauty survey commissioned by the British beauty brand Nephria found women spend almost three years of their life getting ready to leave the house, according to Marie Claire magazine.

And what about the men?

They're left waiting an average of 17.42 minutes each time, while their partners finish getting ready. That adds up to a day and a half a year and almost three months during their lifetime.

The results are based on a poll of 3,000 of Nephria brand users.

As for women, they take an average of an hour and 12 minutes getting ready -- the equivalent of three years over a lifetime.

But what takes so long?

Women spend 22 minutes showering and shaving their legs, seven minutes moisturizing, 23 minutes styling/drying their hair, 14 minutes on make-up, and six minutes getting dressed, according to the survey.

But "Early Show" co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez said on "The Early Show" Friday, she spends just 34 minutes getting ready at work and at home.

She said, "Ask my husband, (it's) absolutely true."

[erasmus111]

by July 10, 2009 7:18 PM PDT
There's one word that will get a woman out of the house pronto. ..... SHOPPING!


That's not true. Don't be lumping all women together.

There's one word that will get a woman out of the house pronto. ..... SHOPPING!

How is it that they can take over 2/3 of the closet space but NEVER have anything to wear?

...and why do they need so many shoes when they only have two feet?

[erasmus111]

by John_Merritt July 10, 2009 4:41 PM PDT
If it was Shania we are talking about, I say 'yeah, yeah, yeah......especially now that she is divorced and I am single. She's still hot. "Girl, you take all the time you need I'll be waiting for you!"


John, get a grip! You don't think Shania is going to go for YOU, do ya? Hahahaha!

[erasmus111]

by credibility2 July 10, 2009 1:31 PM PDT
I wonder how much time men waste following sports in their lifetime, while their women remain long and suffering, in addition to their men demanding that they be accepting of this? Along the same lines, how much time do men waste in finishing home projects they conveniently avoid, in favor of following some sport's game? I know many women who don't waste this much time getting ready for their significant other. If anything, were they not to primp and prepare, their men folk would rail against them and say degrading comments towards the way they look.


YEEEAH!!

I think this may be the first time I have agreed with you. : )

[erasmus111]

This is all I have to say....


This is what a woman wants...
Any man of mine better be proud of me
Even when I'm ugly he still better love me
And I can be late for a date that's fine
But he better be on time

Any man of mine'll say it fits just right
When last year's dress is just a little too tight
And anything I do or say better be okay
When I have a bad hair day

And if I change my mind
A million times
I wanna hear him say
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I like it that way

Any man of mine better walk the line
Better show me a teasin' squeezin' pleasin' kinda time
I need a man who knows, how the story goes
He's gotta be a heartbeatin' fine treatin'
Breathtakin' earthquakin' kind
Any man of mine

Well any man of mine better disagree
When I say another woman's lookin' better than me
And when I cook him dinner and I burn it black
He better say, mmmm, I like it like that yeah

And if I changed my mind
A million times
I wanna hear him say
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I like it that way

Shania Twain

[John_Merritt]

If it was Shania we are talking about, I say 'yeah, yeah, yeah......especially now that she is divorced and I am single. She's still hot. "Girl, you take all the time you need I'll be waiting for you!"

[John_Merritt]

I guess I should not complain about my ex-wife, it only took her 2.5 hrs. every morning to get ready for us to go anywhere. Swear to God. I am just glad we never had to leave the house in a real hurry. God Bless her, still like her, don't understand her or any woman that believes that the world starts and finishes on what they look like? Go figure.

[credibility2]

I wonder how much time men waste following sports in their lifetime, while their women remain long and suffering, in addition to their men demanding that they be accepting of this? Along the same lines, how much time do men waste in finishing home projects they conveniently avoid, in favor of following some sport's game? I know many women who don't waste this much time getting ready for their significant other. If anything, were they not to primp and prepare, their men folk would rail against them and say degrading comments towards the way they look.

[Slrman]

When a man says he's ready to go, it means he can walk out the door in the next ten seconds. When a woman says she's ready to go, she means in the next twenty minutes.

[Slrman]

Only three months? They need to do better research. More like three years waiting. Except I stopped waiting longer than 15 minutes for anyone at any time. If they have so little respect for me that my time is worth nothing to them, then they are worth nothing to me.

Here's a familiar scenario. I'll give the wife a specific time that we should be leaving, and she agrees. But when the time comes, she's NOT ready to walk out the door. She always has these last minute things she HAS to do and it's usually 1/2 hr later when we finally walk out the door.

EVEN when I try to tick her by increasing the time we actually need to leave by 1/2 hour, she STILL runs late! GO FIGURE!

I think they just wait until we say "IT's time to go!", then we get the standard answer " I'll be there in a SEC!" ... which means 1/2 hour later!

[gold_standard]

Sounds quite familiar. My wife thinks that time to go is the time to get ready. She is always a half hour late.

Anyone who denies that men and women think differently is a moron or has never met the opposite gender. Women--you can't leave with them and you can't leave without them :)>

[Henri_Rochard]

Time well spent, I say.

Some women need to spend more time primping.

[azure13]

The funny thing is, it's more about looking good for other women. They compete against each other more than they care about looking good for their man.

[mswolfestock]

What about the men who don't give a rip what they look like? The women put on make-up and a nice outfit, and then there's the guys, in ratty T-shirts complete with big beer gut underneath (and sometimes sticking out from under the T-shirt), cut-off shorts, and sneakers without socks, YUK!!

[cs4466]

Wait on a woman? Hah! Never!

[pubsrtoast]

They're left waiting an average of 17.42 minutes each time, while their partners finish getting ready.

!7.42 minutes is way too low of an average wait time, two or three times that is far more likely.

[gold_standard]

I have read dating books aimed at women that advise them to intentionally make men wait as a psychological tool. Apparently the common belief among women is that they will be more desirable if the man has to cool his heels waiting for them.

But to hear men talk, you get the idea that being late makes a bad impression. Since almost all women make men wait, they all are equally desirable or reprehensible so being chronically late accomplishes nothing.