Clueless Gen Z paying up to £1,300 for household tasks like changing light bulbs

Gen Z are paying up to £1,300 a year for others to do household tasks like changing light bulbs, new research suggests.

A quarter of Gen Z adults – aged 18 to 27 – said they would not change a light bulb themselves because using a stepladder could be dangerous, while one in five fear the bulb could be “too hot”.

Almost half of the 2,012 Gen Z adults surveyed told researchers they did not know how to add air to a car tyre. More than one in five confessed they would have to get a mechanic to do it, while the same percentage would instead ask a parent to do it for them.

The survey found 21 per cent of those classified as being Gen Z, and 22 per cent of Millennials, who are aged 28 to 43 years old, admitted they would call in a professional to change the bulb on a ceiling light in their home. Similar numbers – 22 per cent of Gen Z and 19 per cent of Millennials – would beg a parent to do it.

When asked why they could not change a simple ceiling light bulb, a quarter of Gen Z adults worried it would be “too hot”.

Two thirds of Millennials said it was because they would “not want to mess around with electrics”.

A fifth of both age groups claimed it was because it “could be dangerous to use a ladder”.

Meanwhile, 11 per cent of Gen Z adults would call in a professional to hang a picture frame.

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