Europeans spend as much time thinking about household chores them as doing them

On average, French respondents say they spend 92% as much time preparing for tasks as they spend doing them, research reveals. — AFP

WASHING dishes, vacuuming, changing sheets, paying the bills; the list of household chores to be done can be a mental burden in itself. In fact, the findings of a new survey reveal as much, with Europeans spending almost as much time thinking about or preparing for household chores as they do actually completing them.

And this inevitably adds to the overall burden, which, in short, ends up twice as high as it should be.