BONUS: The Average Amount We Spend On The Holidays

Do we spend a lot on the holidays? Join Intern John, Sos, and Rose as we talk about our spending habits during the holidays and more!

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Turn in your morning show.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
They Happy Friday, friends, Welcome to the show. Intern John
is my name? Sauce, Hello, Hello, Rose, Hi, Hi, got hoodie?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Here?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Got Eric Savera nine ninety three three eight to text.
Dms are open at WYMUS Radio. This report came out
about holiday spending when we were six days away from Christmas. Sauce,
what percent you done shopping? I'm done completely? Yeah, look
at you.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
I didn't actually have a lot of gifts to buy
this year. Sorry, he's good, Rose, I'm like ninety percent.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'm pretty sure I'm good. Oh Hi, I always keep
extra gift cards. Yeah, yes, I forget somebody or just lieon,
say it's in the mail.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
So they're saying that a lot of Americans aren't feeling festive
this holiday season. They blame the Grinch economy because of it.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
They say sixty seven percent of dolls believe the holidays
will be less fun this year because everything's expensive.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Eighty five percent say they'll spend the same or less
than last year. I feel like I'm doing this the
same they say on Black Friday, they believe it was
one point eight billion in spending.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh wow, I didn't get the guys, I din' get
anything else, got some adult stuffing, had nothing fun. I got.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
The only thing I got it wasn't like adult was
the new hairspray.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I mean bad, like that's the work thing. Yeah, there
it is.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
There we go, There we go. Six and ten also
believe they'll be given less to charity this year. Oh no, okay,
there we go, and they say, uh. Some focused on
dealing with holiday debt from previous years. One in four
haven't payoff last year's holiday debt, which is all so crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, I mean everything's getting expensive, damn.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
So they said with the Black Friday, between ten am
and two pm, twelve point five million was spent online
every single minute.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh my god, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Then more than half of Black Friday purchases were made
on the mobile device.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay, I mean crazy. Yeah I did online on Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Guess that's fair. Yeah, Amazon makes it easier. And they
say that sales spike for electronics, appliances and.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Toys, like everyone's getting TVs all the time. Like even
my parents got new TV and I was like why
and my mom said they needed a bigger one and
I was surprised.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, because I was likely ten grand.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
It felt like now they can get the big screen
for normal, like one hundred and fifty bucks down. I'm like, what.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Crazy crazy intern Johnny Morny Show intern John

Speaker 1 (02:04):
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