Sherry Taylor

Q:New research finds that mothers spend an average of 13 hours and 23 minutes doing this at Christmastime?

A: finding the perfect gift for their husband

WOMEN SPEND 13 HOURS FINDING THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THEIR HUSBAND: Christmas shopping can be time consuming and stressful, and new research finds that mothers spend an average of 13 hours and 23 minutes choose their partner perfect presents. Fathers are apparently able to pick the perfect gift more quickly, and only spend an average of four hours and 10 minutes on the task. Fifty-seven-percent of mothers surveyed confess they are disappointed with Christmas gifts given by their husbands or boyfriends and 25-percent say they frantically dropping hints now in hopes that this year it will be different. The U.K. survey covered one-thousand parents, and found that one-in-ten mothers say they are expected to wrap all the gifts that are put under the tree. Researchers also found that 11-percent of men are so clueless as to what to buy their wives that they let her choose her own gift. (Daily Mail)

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