Mother's Day Spending & Stats

Sunday is Mother's Day and Dangerous Dave talks about spending and stats about our moms.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous Day. Sunday
is Mother's Day, and if you're planning on celebrating with
your mother in your life, there's three things you can
do by gift, plan some time with her, or give
her the day off. Lots of people do the gift routine,
even some give flowers, card meal out National Retail Federation

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says consumer spending on Mother's Day is expected to be
about thirty four point one billion dollars this year, which
is up a notch from the thirty three point five
last year, but down a little bit from the record
of thirty five point seven and twenty twenty three. What
does that mean for the random person? While on average,
a person's going to spend about two hundred and fifty
nine dollars on Mother's Day gifts and celebrations, five dollars

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more than they budgeted last year, The NARF says thoughtful
gifts are popular. Forty eight percent of people want to
give a gift that's unique or different, and forty two
percent want to find a gift that creates a special memory.
Thirty six percent of men are looking for gift experiences.
There's a new list of trending mother's day activities, which
includes crafts, cooking classes, going to see a show, wine tasting.

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Moms online suggest keeping it simple, like going to a peaceful,
non complaint hike, you go sightseeing, to a park or picnic,
and you don't complain about it, making memories, doing something
different or unexpected, like offering to participate in one of
her hobbies, planning a day out in a new neighborhood
or a town, or making a homemade treat, or maybe

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just a picture of Margarita's Practical gifts are also great
things for around the house. A one report found that
Americans might spend less on gifts this year, but their
budgets are a little tighter these days, which is fine.
Recent surveys, mother said they'd trade gifts for free time.
That's bonus family time, personal time, something they can enjoy

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some downtime from being the busy mom. Also, this can
include giving mom a nap, taking care of the meals
for the day, letting mom enjoy sipping on some lemonade
and looking at her book and streaming content, or just
giving her some personal time to pamper herself and put
her feet up. So basically, give mom something nice and
leave her alone. In every family dynamic is unique, but

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if you had a mother to celebrate this weekend, put
some thought into how you're going to do it. In
a new poll, people were asked about their family growing up.
Among the people who had a mother and a father
at home, and fifty two percent said their mother was
the most involved in their daily activities, thirty two percent
said both parents equally and seven percent said dad. Seventy
seven percent said mother was most involved in homework, fourteen

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percent said both, three percent said dad, Forty four percent
said they were closer to their mother, thirty six percent
said equally, and fourteen percent said tighter with their dad.
Forty two percent said their mother helped them more with
their housework, twenty percent said both equally, thirteen percent said
mainly the dad. Thirty eight percent said they turned to

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their mother for advice, where thirty percent said both parents
and sixteen percent said dad. Of course, fathers had their moment.
Fathers were more likely to earn more money, be stricter,
be a bigger influence on a person's personality and their
political beliefs, for better or worse. Randomly, the poll asked
people if they had argued with their mother in law,
sixty eight percent said no, but twenty eight percent said

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they had battled with their mother in law before. Four
percent said they didn't have one. Among the people in
the poll, fifty seven percent planned to do something to
celebrate Mother's Day, twenty seven percent don't plan on it,
and fifteen percent weren't sure. And when asked if society
does enough to adequately reward mothers for the work they
do in sixty four percent said absolutely not, twenty percent

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said dozen sixteen percent weren't sure. Regardless, celebrate mom this weekend.
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