🎄 Hosting Christmas? Congratulations! You've Just Signed Up for 20 Hours of Cleaning! 🧹😂

If you're hosting Christmas dinner this year, you might want to start cleaning NOW!

According to a new report, holiday hosts spend an average of 20 HOURS cleaning before and after their guests arrive!

That's more than TWO full workdays! And here's the really depressing part…

Nearly HALF of hosts say they spend more time cleaning than actually enjoying their guests!

The report also found that 35% of people find hosting stressful, with cooking and cleaning being two of the biggest headaches.

And can we talk about how ridiculous holiday cleaning gets?!

We spend three days making our homes look like nobody actually LIVES there…

• Cleaning bathrooms that were already clean.
• Washing the good dishes nobody's allowed to touch the other 364 days of the year.
• Scrubbing baseboards because apparently Aunt Linda is coming over to inspect the trim.
• Shoving everything into a bedroom and threatening the kids with their lives if they open that door.
• Buying fancy hand soap so people think we're doing better financially than we actually are.
• Cleaning the kitchen BEFORE cooking a meal that will destroy the kitchen.
• And my personal favourite, cleaning the house BEFORE the cleaning lady comes!

The report suggests asking family members for help and spreading the cleaning over several days.

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Which sounds great in theory…But have you ever asked a teenage boy to clean a bathroom?

Suddenly, you're spending another 45 minutes explaining that spraying Febreze into the toilet is NOT cleaning!

And after 20 hours of scrubbing, cooking and decorating, someone will STILL walk into your house and say…

"Wow, you look tired!"

YES, KAREN! BECAUSE I'VE BEEN CLEANING SINCE HALLOWEEN!