PR Email Of The Week

This will be a new blog feature that I will likely soon forget about, but this PR email was too good to pass up. I get about a million of these a day.

Hi Lucas – Figured you might be interested… According to a new study, it’s not just the season for decking the halls – it’s the time for scrubbing them, too!

Whether messes are caused by an overflow of sweet potato casserole or puddles of spilled gravy, the survey from Georgia-Pacific, the manufacturer of Brawny® paper towels, and StrategyOne found Christmas to be the messiest holiday of all, adding nearly four hours to time spent cleaning before (151 minutes) and after (85 minutes) holiday at-home parties. This is in addition to the nearly two hours (116 minutes) it takes women to clean their homes already!

Perhaps all the extra work is because women are getting left high and dry when it comes to cleaning. The survey also found that 65% of women do not receive any help with household chores and that spouses are nearly as hard to clean up after as pets (25.6 percent vs. 27.1 percent).

I’m happy to send all of the additional results if you’re interested. Let me know what you think!

I can't wait to publish my newest Huffpo article: "Christmas Likely To Be Messy! MESSIEST OF ALL."