How much time is spent on looking for lost items?

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I need a source for the amount of time spent annually on looking for lost items

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The amount of time people spent looking for lost things varies:

In John Ortberg's book When the Game Is Over It All Goes Back in the Box, and in James Gleick's 1999 book Faster, we spend sixteen minutes a day (roughly one year of our lives) looking for lost possessions.

Meanwhile, according to a study conducted by a Boston Marketing firm, the average American burns 55 minutes a day looking for things they know they own but cannot find. That adds up to a total of almost 14 days a year people spend just trying to find lost things.

A survey by the holiday company Ocean Village claims that we clock in 31 minutes a day hunting for lost things - remote controllers (5 minutes), keys (10 minutes), socks and shoes (7 minutes), lottery tickets (4 minutes) and passports (1 minute) and 17 minutes shouting "you had it last".

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