Okay, get this:  the average American spent 1,613 hours watching television in 2007.  To completely understand this number we need to break that into days.  So let's say the Average American cannot watch T.V. for 10 hours a day - maybe 12, but to be on the conservative side we'll use 10.  Why can't they watch T.V. for 10 out of every 24 hours?  They have to sleep for eight hours, drive for an hour or so, take a shower, go to the bathroom, and probably take out the trash or walk the dogs.  Speaking only for myself, I do not have a T.V. in my shower, car, or driveway.  If we agree that the maximum time a person can watch T.V. is 14 hours a day - and that is a stretch -  then we can compute how many days Americans watch television.  1,613 hours of T.V. divided by 14 (hour days) equals 115 days of doing nothing else but watching television.  Since there are 365 days in a year, that leaves 250 days left to do other things.