Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Stuff One Never Told You, a production of IHart Radio.

And today we're bringing back an episode we did about women's holiday labor as we move into the holidays as this comes out.

I was thinking about this actually when you were talking about your recent Monday mini about hobbies, women and hobbies.

Because I was trying to come up with some holiday topics that we haven't already covered.

One thing that my mom and I do is we do puzzles together when I go home.

And so then I went on a like rabbit hole about the history of puzzles and women.

And I learned a lot.

And we'll have to come back and talk about that later.

But then I got to thinking, as we do this, I'm preparing to go home for the holidays.

And I was thinking about how that the fact that women have less time for hobbies, like, is almost,

it becomes apparent to me during the holidays because I'm, like, not preparing to relax.

Right.

I am preparing to cook.

I'm preparing to, like, decorate.

I'm preparing to, like, shop, like, all of these things.

Like, and my mom is doing more than me.

Like, she does all of the, like, grocery shopping.

She does the planning.

She does the hosting, the decorating, cleaning, entertaining, entertaining.

And it is one of the things that frustrates me the most in my particular house, holiday situation, is that I feel like we do all of that work.

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