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Wales Online
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Neil Shaw

How many calories each household chore burns

Household cleaning splits the nation. Some people can’t think of a worse activity to dedicate a Saturday morning to, while others actually enjoy doing chores and claim they have therapeutic value.

Whichever side of the freshly-painted fence you sit on, it’s difficult to deny that a clean home doesn’t often do wonders for your mental health.

In the UK, people spend an average of six days a year cleaning their homes. Like it or loathe it, there are tonnes of benefits to getting our clean on, and it can even be classed as exercise. Feed two birds with one sugar-free scone.

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