Halifax Home Insurance - Are you a gadget glutton?: Today the true gadget gluttony of Britain was revealed as Halifax released figures pointing that there are over £2.6 billion worth of unused gadgets sitting in people's kitchens.
It seems that we've all bought the toastie maker, the blender and any variation of George Foreman's lean, mean grilling machine but they spend all of their lives gathering dust in a cupboard with an average usage of one a year. They join the ranks for Soda Streams and Coffee Makers, many of which are still kept by their owners years after purchase "just in case".
The estimates given were that men spend an average of £119 on kitchen gear they never use with women trailing at £88 but between the two the average British household has £500 worth of appliances stored and unused in their kitchen cupboards. Most details of gender differences were handed out with the revelation that men are 150% more likely to have an accident with a fancy kitchen gizmo than women fueling the stereotype that men refuse the read instructions.
Such incidents apparently cost over 64 million pounds worth of damage. Now we see why it was Halifax Home insurance taking the survey rather than any helpful production by the government.
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NCD News: Halifax Home Insurance - 05.06.08
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