Feel free to invite this man over sometime

The arrival of spring used to mean the arrival of spring cleaning. In our more untidy era, that’s less reliably the case. Nonetheless, the Soap and Detergent Association has seized the equinoctal occasion to commission a survey (fielded by International Communications Research) on the topic of household cleanliness. Among the findings: 72 percent of respondents have visited someone else’s house and found it “unusually dirty or unclean,” while just 40 percent “have been embarrassed by their own unclean homes when unexpected guests have dropped by.”