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Best Answer: Vacuuming burns ~0.024 calories/min/Lb. You burned 0.024*10min*108 = ~26 calories. Best of luck and good health! Impossible to answer since vacuuming is an intermittent activity, and there are too many other variables. Regardless 10 minutes of ANYTHING doesn't burn enough calories to matter. Unless of course you were to run 2 miles in 10 minutes, which would burn something like 200-250 calories. Your cardiovascular system isn't capable of transferring enough oxygen to do anything close to that, though, so its irrelevant.
How many calories do people burn by using their brains, and can that amount change? Advertisement To get an idea of the calories that anyone burns at any time, the entire walking process burns about four calories per minute, above and beyond the 1300 calories a day that most people need to stay alive. Kickboxing, that favorite activity of cage-fighters, burns about 10 calories a minute.