SURVEY: These Are The Hardest Things To Give Up For Lent
Feb 26, 2020 @ 10:05am
Are you one of the millions of people around the world giving up something for Lent?
Personally, being Lutheran (or, Catholicism Lite, as I like to call it), we don't really get into Lenten fasting too much. But a lot of people do, and some of the numbers are quite interesting!
A new poll for Ash Wednesday asked 8,000 people to name the HARDEST things to give up for 40 days for Lent.
Here are the seven hardest things to give up:
1. Watching TV or using streaming services. 29% said it would be the hardest thing to give up. (It was the #1 answer for every age group except 18- to 24-year-olds.)
2. Caffeine, 19%.
3. Social networking, 11%. (It was the #1 answer for young people. 24% of people between 18 and 24 said it would be the hardest, compared to just 7% of people over 55.)
4. Chocolate, also 11% overall.
5. Soda, 7%.
6. Alcohol, 6%.
7. Fast food, 5%.
8% of people said they weren't sure which one of those things would be the hardest to give up. And 4% said they already abstain from all of them.
If you'd like to dive more into the numbers, here you go.
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