I was listening to a hairdryer this morning and thought of how much energy it uses to heat up.
If you use a standard hairdryer for 5 minutes a day, each day of the month for a month total, you use the equivalent total of a single day of energy consumption for 4-5 people, or almost a weeks-worth of energy used by one person!

As a side note, people in the United States typically use twice as much energy as those in Europe and Japan, and 10 times as much as those in India; consuming more than 25% of the worlds energy at only 5% of the worlds population!