Numbers In Our Lives

The average person, over a lifetime, goes through:

3,056 pints of milk – 4,376 loaves of bread (87,520 slices) – 5,442 hotdogs and 12,129 hamburgers. No stats available for mustard, relish and ketchup. [All info from NGS TV.]

Then there’s those 2.5 tons of beef, 1.7 tons of pork, 2.3 tons of chickens (1,423 cluckers, giving us our 1.3 tons, or 19,826 eggs to enjoy with the bacon from all that pork).

We’ll go through 14,518 candy bars and 1,056 pounds of sugar, but make up for it by eating 11,196 apples, plus 5,067 bananas, 12,880 oranges and 4 tons (about 20,000) potatoes.

We will read 5,054 newspapers and take 28,433 showers, burn 31,350 gallons of gas and go 627,000 miles.

The people who make aluminum cans for soda and beer will produce 36 billion of them this year. I thought I had the stats on how many one person uses in a lifetime, but I don’t see them here. It’s a lot, especially when you consider that carbonated soda goes in one end and goes out the other without benefiting us in any way (try drinking water instead).

For starters, a baby will run through 3,796 diapers in the first 2 ½ years. I don’t have the numbers for elderly people using Depends.