Percentage of Americans who said their quality of life would improve if they were better organized, according to a survey conducted on behalf of the National Association of Professional Organizers: 71

Percentage who described their home as at least moderately disorganized: 65

Percentage who said disorder keeps them from being effective at work: 27

HIBERNATION MODE

Average percentage of their lives that Americans spend sleeping, according to a Consumer Sleep Study released by Sit 'n' Sleep: 33

Percentage of adults who said they sleep more during the winter months: 55

TRADE-OFFS

Percentage of men who would give up sex for at least a whole football season for their team to win the Super Bowl, according to a poll commissioned by Caesars Pocono Resorts: 15

Percentage of them who would give it up for however long it takes: 11

Number of NFL teams that have never won the Super Bowl: 15

CHEERS TO THAT

Ranks of wine (47 percent), beer (27 percent) and mixed drinks (18 percent) as the drinks of choice on weekdays for nighthawks, according to a Zagat survey: 1, 2, 3

Ranks of mixed drinks (59 percent), wine (20 percent) and beer (16 percent) as the drinks of choice on the weekends: 1, 2, 3

ETHICS SCRUTINY

Percentage of Americans (a majority for the first time) who say the honesty and ethical standards of members of Congress are low or very low, according to Gallup's annual Honesty and Ethics of Professions list: 55

Percentage of Americans who perceive several other professions as having low integrity, including stockbrokers, HMO managers, insurance salespeople, car salespeople and lawyers: 40

By contrast, percentage of Americans who say nurses have either very high or high ethical standards: 83

GOING ABROAD

Rank of Italy (25 percent) on the list of top international destinations for packaged travel in 2009, according to the U.S. Tour Operators Association: 1

Ranks of Egypt (20 percent) and the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador (15 percent) on the list: 2, 3

Reach John MacIntyre at johnmacintyre@bwr.eastlink.ca.