4th Time Off & Buyers Remorse

Would you like a whole week off for the 4th celebration? Dangerous Dave talks about a survey that says nearly 1/2 of Americans do. Plus, buyers remorse. Things we purchase that we regret.

Episode Transcript

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This is deuber in the den withdangerous day, So if you're going to
pone it in at work, you'renot alone. Forty five percent of American
workers don't expect to get much workdone now between the Fourth of July weekend.
That's how many agreed with the statement, I barely get any work done
around the fourth of July. Soif half of us aren't doing much anyway,
should the rest of the week beoff? Half of Americans want it

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to happen. Forty nine percent thinkcompanies should shut down for the entire week
of fourth of July, and alot of those votes are young people.
Sixty one percent of millennials and genZer says yes, compared to thirty two
percent of people older than that.Fifty six percent of young people said working
during the fourth should be seen asa taboo work culture. Overall, thirty

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five percent of us think we're moreproductive the rest of the year if we
knew we would get a full weekoff during July. Twenty eight percent claim
they'll work harder, and twenty twopercent would be more likely to recommend their
company to friends and families if theyhad that week off. If you're looking
forward to your break, You're notalone. Seventy five percent of people are.
If you're getting more than Thursday offcountry blessings, only thirty four percent

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of workers get two days or morethis week. Ten percent said they get
all five. Twenty two percent ofcompanies will be open on the fourth of
July this year, so a lotof people working over the fourth. I
will not be but I will behere on Friday, just because I know
you'll miss me deeper in the two. You know, Amazon Prime Days come
up later this month of sixteenth andthe seventeenth, and even with a deal,

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think twice about anything on this list. The poll asked forty seven hundred
Americans if they regretted buying certain things. Looked at categories instead of specific products,
but the top things we had buyersremorse with included clothes, topping the
list. Thirty four percent of peoplebought an item they regretted, gifts at
twenty six percent, electronics at twentyfour, vehicles at twenty two, furniture

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sixteen percent, and fitness equipment atten percent, probably because it just became
a close hangar in your bedroom.Other things that we regret buying include jewelry
at ten percent, house at eightpercent, and fifty one percent overall said
immed at least one major purchase thatthey ended up regretting vacation seven percent,
wedding four percent, and women morelikely than men to say they bought clothes

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they didn't like. Men were morelikely to regret buying a gadget. One
in five people overall said they don'tregret any purchases they've ever made, really,
none, never, You know,I guess when it comes to gadgets
and stuff. The only time Ireally regret them if it was something that
I bought because I thought it woulddo more than it did, Or when
it comes to like certain types oftools or equipment that you buy and you

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wish you would have bought the actual, the good one, not the cheap
one, because you used it onceand it broke because I wasn't using it
right to me. They came foranother episode of Deeper in the Den with
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