How clean would you say your house, apartment, or dorm room is?
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It's clean enough to perform surgery in:
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8%
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It's clean enough to live in:
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68%
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It could use a thorough cleaning:
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21%
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It's absolutely disgusting:
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3%
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Whose house is cleaner, yours now or yours when you were growing up?
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Mine now:
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25%
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Mine then:
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36%
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They are about the same:
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34%
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I'm still growing up:
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4%
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Do you do an annual spring cleaning?
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Yes:
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30%
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No:
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27%
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Sometimes:
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33%
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What are you talking about?:
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3%
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My home is perfect all the time not just in spring:
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6%
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Which of the following is most likely to do the next major cleaning in your home?
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I am:
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51%
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My spouse or partner is:
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22%
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My kids are:
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0%
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My mother-in-law or mom is:
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2%
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A housecleaning service or maid:
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20%
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The Environmental Protection Agency:
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3%
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No one:
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1%
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If you have questions about cleaning something, to whom do you turn?
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My mother, mother-in-law, or grandmother:
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22%
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My partner or spouse:
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22%
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The Internet:
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33%
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A book:
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7%
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My friends:
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15%
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Do you believe in "green" cleaning?
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Yes:
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48%
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No:
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17%
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I am not sure how, but would like to try:
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36%
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Have you ever hidden or thrown away an item you could not get clean?
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Yes:
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88%
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No:
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11%
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If I ever tried to clean something, I might:
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1%
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Cleaning which of the following things is the most satisfying for you?
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My closet:
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18%
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My car:
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16%
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My living room:
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6%
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My bedroom:
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9%
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My bathroom:
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9%
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My kitchen:
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26%
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My teeth:
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15%
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What sort of wine goes best with housecleaning?
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Open the red:
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32%
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Open the white:
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18%
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Open the pink:
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3%
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Just pour rum into the Diet Coke until the fumes make your eyes water:
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22%
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You shouldn't drink while you operate power tools:
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26%
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Which of the following landmarks sounds like it would require the most work to keep clean?
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The White House:
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24%
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The Crystal Cathedral:
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48%
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Windows on Washington:
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12%
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Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House Museum:
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3%
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St. Louis Museum of the Dog:
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13%
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Which of Martha Stewart's Spring Cleaning tips is most important to you?
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"Clean carpets, rugs, floors, windows, refrigerator, freezer, shades and curtains":
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23%
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"Sort through your closets and give away items":
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36%
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"Do a safety check for frayed wires and dead smoke detector batteries":
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7%
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"Replace the furnace filters and put away the storm windows":
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8%
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"Be nice to your cellmates":
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26%
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Which of the following Heloise Household Helpline hints does your own house most need?
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Banish the bugs in the pantry:
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26%
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Get chocolate stains off the carpets:
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43%
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Smooth leather wrinkles:
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20%
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Get lipstick off dress shirt collars:
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11%
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Which of the following TV maids would you most like to have in your own home?
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Hazel Burke, who worked for two different TV Baxter families:
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18%
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Rosy, the Jetsons' robo-maid:
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39%
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Alice Nelson, the Brady Bunch's resourceful housekeeper:
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24%
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Florence Johnston, who cleaned that deluxe apartment in the sky for the Jeffersons:
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19%
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