{"id":982,"date":"2011-01-17T16:35:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2011-01-17T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T16:35:16","slug":"pad-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/pad-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pad statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before my husband went away, we wanted to get the quarterly taxes done for the business. This gave us an aprox. total of sales for 2010.<\/div>\n
So my good friend and I were discussing the aprox. number of Homestead Emporium pads sold this past year and trying to come up with the statistics of cloth pads used, versus disposable pads kept out of the landfill, by our Homestead Emporium customers.<\/div>\n
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I have no problem admitting that statistics, and math, are NOT my strongest suit. I do love statistics though, I’m just not any good at figuring them out myself, so I asked \u00a0my good friend if she would be willing to give it a go. She said “Sure!”<\/div>\n
We used averages, for everything. This is NOT scientific.<\/strong> lol If any of you love statistics and would like to tackle this ‘problem’ in your own way, please do share your results!<\/div>\n
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Here’s what she came up with:<\/div>\n
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Homestead Emporium sold \u00a0an avergage of 6,300 pads last year.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

An average woman would go through aprox. 12-18 of those pads sold every month. So, we’ll average that number to 15 okay? <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

So, if we divide those 6,300 pads by the average a woman would use them, we come up with 420 women buying 15 pads each.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Okay…hopefully so far that makes sense!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Now, lets talk about those lovely disposable pads. On average, a woman would use one box per month. One box contains \u00a028 pads, which is roughly 5.5 pads per day.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

So, lets multiply those 28 pads, by the number of women that bought those 15 pads each from your store last year:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

420 women x 28 disposable\/m = 11,760 disposables per month.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11,760\/m x 12 months = 141,120 pads into the landfill per year by those same 420 women.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Now lets go further…each person will be using your gorgeous pads for around 3.5 years:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

141,120 disposable\/yr x 3.5 years = 493,920 pads saved from the landfill!<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Hope that makes sense!!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thank you good friend, for putting that all together!<\/div>\n
So there you have it! Tell me what you think? Share your math skills with us and tell us what you come up with! Let’s have some fun with this, and remember to be proud of yourself for the number of pads YOU are keeping out of landfills, and for that extra step you are taking to help keep not just the earth healthy, but keeping your body healthy too!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Before my husband went away, we wanted to get the quarterly taxes done for the business. This gave us an aprox. total of sales for 2010. So my good friend and I were discussing the aprox. number of Homestead Emporium pads sold this past year and trying to come up with the statistics of cloth […]<\/p>\n

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