Article: Saturday blues Whatever happened to leisure?

Sometime, a few years ago, Saturday died. It died as a day of leisure, of mornings in bed and afternoons lollygagging in a hammock.

Lollygagging has nothing to do with the modern Saturday.

Free of naps, daydreams and downtime, Saturday has become a massive attack of errands, perpetual soccer games and hard-core SUV mileage. The weekend has been slashed from two days to one.

"Saturday is still a work day," says the NPD research group's Harry Balzer, who has been tracking 3,000 consumers for a decade. "It's just a different kind of work."

And, generally, for no compensation.

Saturday driving time for women has increased almost 15% this decade, according to the NPD study of adults of all races ...

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