For a quarter of Americans, keeping their home clean is more difficult than their full-time job, according to a recent survey.
The survey of 2,000 Americans looked at their cleaning habits and challenges, especially when it comes to hosting, and found that keeping a tidy house is harder than their nine-to-five for nearly one in four (24%).
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