Features of filthy rooms that would make you run a mile
goo Ranking asked their panel what features of the home of someone who cannot tidy up would make them run a mile if they saw it. That’s a bit of a long-winded title, so I was very tempted to go for the much simpler “Tidying FAIL” as a headline!
Demographics
Over the 29th of February and the 1st of March 2012 1,175 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.4% of the sample were female, 10.0% in their teens, 16.5% in their twenties, 29.3% in their thirties, 24.1% in their forties, 10.6% in their fifties, and 9.5% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
About number 20, my wife told me that if you have to get goods repaired, you must have the original box. That sounds like an old wives’ tale, but at least our old cardboard boxes can be hidden away in our trunk room.
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