{"id":1303636,"date":"2019-02-13T11:27:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=447322"},"modified":"2019-02-13T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:27:43","slug":"americans-expected-to-spend-big-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/americans-expected-to-spend-big-on-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans expected to spend big on Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finder.com\/valentines-day-statistics\">Finder<\/a>, a financial advisory company, has compiled statistics surrounding spending on Valentine&#8217;s Day.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-447324 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.16.53-AM-325x167.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.16.53-AM-325x167.png 325w, https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.16.53-AM-150x77.png 150w, https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.16.53-AM-768x396.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.16.53-AM-620x319.png 620w, https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.16.53-AM-600x309.png 600w, https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.16.53-AM.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s website states that an estimated $30 billion will be spent on Valentine&#8217;s Day gifts and experiences this year. The average person is expected to spend $221.34.<\/p>\n<p>The site also broke down the average amount of money that will be spent on specific people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wife: $357.90<\/li>\n<li>Kids: $280.07<\/li>\n<li>Self: $235.56<\/li>\n<li>Girlfriend: $231.55<\/li>\n<li>Friends: $208.10<\/li>\n<li>Husband: $206.23<\/li>\n<li>Secret: $160.13<\/li>\n<li>Other family members: $146.24<\/li>\n<li>Boyfriend: $105.02<\/li>\n<li>Cat: $95.90<\/li>\n<li>Dog: $81.56<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, Generation Y is excepted to buy the most gifts (63 percent expected to spend money), with Generation X and baby boomers following behind.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-447325 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.17.13-AM-325x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.17.13-AM-325x156.png 325w, https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.17.13-AM-150x72.png 150w, https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.17.13-AM-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.17.13-AM-620x298.png 620w, https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.17.13-AM-600x288.png 600w, https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-11.17.13-AM.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\"\/>Those that are married are also expected to buy the most gifts, with those that are separated and single individuals rounding out the top three.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, about $9.5 billion worth of gifts will be unwanted by the recipients.<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-mid-script\" class=\"p402_hide\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the complete financial breakdown, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finder.com\/valentines-day-statistics\">visit<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finder.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.finder.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/entertainment\/americans-expected-to-spend-big-on-valentines-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finder, a financial advisory company, has compiled statistics surrounding spending on Valentine&#8217;s Day. The company&#8217;s website states that an estimated $30 billion will be spent on Valentine&#8217;s Day gifts and experiences this year. The average person is expected to spend $221.34. The site also broke down the average amount of money that will be spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1303636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 08:09:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}