If you had an 8 day week, what would you do on the extra day?

I guess it depends if that 8th day is considered a weekday, or if it’s apart of the weekend.
I would most likely use it to work, but if it is like an additional Sunday, I would use it to masturbate lounge around the house.

Pretty much more of the same things I do with the 7 days I already have.

I had the privilege of working a construction job in the late 70s working four-tens. That is, ten hours a day, four days a week. I had a three-day weekend each week, from Friday to Sunday. It was bliss.

Thursday night was a night to go out after the end of the work week. Friday was a day to do personal business: banking (pre-Internet, pre-ATM and direct deposit, etc.), grocery shopping, trips to the Post Office (we did business by snail mail in those old days), laundry (laundromats are pretty empty on Fridays—like grocery stores and banks, etc.).

And I had two full days off to fully lounge, with nothing else that “had to be done” over the weekend. Bliss.

Shoot, probably do homework, goof off or sleep.

I would go for the three-day weekend.

By the way, there’s no reason we can’t have an 8-day week. After all, Genesis aside, the 7-day week is a human construct, not divine.

In fact, some service professions (and some other production jobs) work schedules of four on and four off, with another shift working the opposite four-day schedule.

I’ve often wondered, in fact, why we don’t have a ten-day week, considering that our numbering system is base ten for the obvious reason that we have ten fingers. Why shouldn’t our calendar match? We could have thirty-six ten-day weeks and a ‘New Year’s Week’ similar to Carnival. Maybe I should patent the idea…

I’m a firm believer in a 4 day work week, and…that a 6 hour day is more than enough to devote to ‘work.’

This is the goal I have set for myself for several years now and it is bliss!

I’d probably spend it playing. It’s still not enough to show I care however :¬)

Probably sleep in, catch up on homework at a leisurely pace, go to the gym, hang out with friends.

I would make it an official “no phone no text no visit day” and tell everyone that it is my personal quiet day.

@CyanoticWasp the seven day week is “natural” in that it relates to the four phases of the moon, much like English measures that are nature based.

If I had an eighth day, I’d probably ride my bicycle.

Write more stories, read more books, watch more horror movies, play more video games, sleep late one more day each weekend…

I would so need to be starting a new labor union revolution on the 8th day because you damned well know that every corporation in the world would be trying to pay me 40 hours of salary for a new 8 day work week!

Interesting that the OP chooses to add another day to the week, rather than ask about a 4 day work week. I am a big believer in the 4 day work week. Less fuel used for commuting, more opportunity for two income families with children to criss cross their work week so save on day care, all sorts of benefits. Usually I would want to break up the three days. Maybe two together and then smack in the middle of the week. Even when I worked full time, usually I broke up my two days off and worked a weekend day, I hate 5 days in a row, but of course 4 is acceptable, but the question is a 5 day work week and 3 days off. If you can move around the days you work, you can set it up during the month to work Sunday thru Wednesday, be off Thursday thru Wednesday and then work again Thursday thru Sunday. Basically getting almost a week off for vacation, without having to use vacation time and you get to fly on less expensive days in the middle of the week.

From the business side, it may not be feasible to have the office open 7 days a week, it might increase electricity, heating, and some other variable costs, so it might still be limited to 5 days with some employees working 4 days (of course some businesses are already open 7 days a week, so that is something else, I am just commenting on M-F businesses).

On my day off I would relax for the most part. If the day off is also a regular workday for most people, I could plan my doctors appointments on that day, and any other thing that usually pulls me away from work. Also, do a chore or two, to make it less work on other days.

@zenvelo we don’t start our months with the new moon.

Write a grand novel about religious conflict, political corruption, love, war and all that we take for granted in this dwindling world…Or sleep in, they’re both good options.

The 8th day would be a mandatory get-out-of-the-house day to take a scenic drive and have a picnic. I think I’d enjoy the state I now live in better if I got to see more of it, especially in good company along with tasty eats.

@JLeslie Chinese, Jewish, Islamic calendars do. That’s over half the world.

There was a proposal floated years ago to convert to a calendar of 13 months of 28 days, with an extra holiday at the end of the year (in Leap years it would be a two day holiday). always made sense to me.

Long weekend FTW

If they made an 8-day week, the scumbag rich people of the world would just make everyone work 6 days instead of 5, still with only a 2 day weekend :-(

meditate all day…vipassana style

@zenvelo I would argue the world uses the Gregorian/modern calendar. Sure we still look to the Jewish calendar for Jewish holidays, and the Chinese have theirs, and we can name more, but then we have to convert the date to what the world uses. If I remember correctly the Jewish calendar has to throw in an extra month every few years, because of the orbit of the earth? Something like that. Some years are 350 days, some 380 more or less. My knowledge of the Jewish calendar is limited. Anyway, in the end it seems way more complex, even though it sounds simple to just line thinks up with the lunar month. I saw a show yesterday called Harmony, talking about nature and we humans and how we are raping the land, and we can pull back from the edge and make things right. One woman spoke of farming, planting 9 basic crops, and the 9 planets, and some other thing that was the number 9, saying it was some cosmic thing. And, I thought to myself, didn’t Pluto get downgraded? Don’t we have 8 planets? I am all about connectedness and nature, I always say all things are connected, we are all made from the same basic materials, people, animals, insects, plants, the genetic codes of ATCG, but we also have to deal with what is practical.

Sleep

Saturday is the kids’ lessons. Sunday is shopping. Extra day we could actually do something—take a trip to a park or whatever it is that people do when they have time and energy to do it.

It would either become another work day or another weekend day, to be used accordingly.

I’d speculate about how grand it would be to have a 9-day week.

The same thing I do with every day, sleep in late, do a few household tasks, some computering, eat.

Rub it in, @YARNLADY. Just rub it in.

Take the extra day off. A two-day weekend is not enough, especially when you got a young family and you want to spend some quality time with them.

@zenvelo I just realized I forgot to point out the moons cycle is not 28 days, if it were the new moon would always be on the same day of the week. It is more like 29 days, something like that. The old calendars were based on what they understood at the time I would guess, what was evident to them, day and night, and the moon. But, they did not understand the earth orbits the sun, so their calendars did not do well at keeping winter in the same months for instance. Your idea of 13 months 28 days each is interesting, but it does not line us up with the moon.

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