Is the US love affair with housework over?
BBC news
Tom Geoghegan
September 15, 2011
Sales of domestic cleaning products in the US have been falling for four years. So are Americans becoming less keen on sparkling homes?
The country that gave the world the vacuum cleaner may be falling out of love with housework.
Sales of household cleaning products in the US have been falling since 2006, according to data company Mintel.