How Much Did You Spend Over Thanksgiving Weekend?
I haven’t eaten out and shopped this much in a 4-day span in my life. Multiple Outlet Malls. Multiple fancy seafood restaurants. I don’t know the totals, but I’m sure it’s over $500. According to this IBD article ‘Thanksgiving take totals $28 billion‘, we are above average (not sure about per-person though):
The average amount spent over the long weekend was $302.81, up from $265.15 last year, and accounted for almost 36% of buyers’ holiday shopping. In addition, one in 13 people already finished shopping for the holidays.
So, I made a little poll to see how you all compared:
It was good to see the whole family, though. We aren’t going to be able to meet up for Christmas, so this was our annual get-together. And we are over 80% done with our holiday shopping now. Now please excuse me while I pass out.
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November 27th, 2005 at 8:00 pm
We hosted family for thanksgiving so we’ve been feasting on the leftovers so we haven’t eaten out in the last four days… as for spending, technically I only spent a Schwab $100 gift card which cost me nothing so I’ve spent less than $50.
November 27th, 2005 at 8:21 pm
Yeah, the missus and I are going to have leftovers for the next week. Ham and Turkey sandwiches, anyone?
November 27th, 2005 at 8:26 pm
I managed to do a bit of online shopping this weekend, spent $35.
I spent a total of $11 for dining out, $20 at the grocer for a week’s worth of food, and about $200 on Christmas gifts. But I didn’t do my shopping until sunday evening, to avoid most of the insanity.
However, I made about $400 on ebay through the course of the week, so it more than evens out my expenditures. Not to mention the day job, etc.
November 27th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
Actually shopping wise….$160. For the entire weekend we spent $250-300 which includes gas, food, entertainment and shopping.
November 28th, 2005 at 7:23 am
Fry’s had their friday sale with all these items on rebate. Well, I bought all those items, then spent hours getting the rebate crap together. Mailed out sunday.
Money “spent”: $350;
Money returned (some day) in rebate checks: ~$323
Postage: $3.70
Rebates suck…
November 28th, 2005 at 7:57 am
we spent a bit due to the discounted prices. All household stuff though, 2 32″ lcd, 1 dvd/vhs player, 1 pc monitor coz our crt tv got busted, my monitor is dying….other than that its leftovers for a while.
November 28th, 2005 at 9:49 am
My spouse said, “I don’t care about Buy Nothing Day. We need diapers.” So we went to CVS, and while we were out stopped in at a new independently owned bookstore in our area. Ran into five people I knew, and spent about $30.
November 28th, 2005 at 10:53 am
We bought some Christmas lights at TrueValue and a balsam wreath from a local grower. Less than 50 bucks.
November 28th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
From reading the poll results, looks like most of y’all laid low and spent less than fifty bucks, if anything. Or maybe the big spenders are too shy to vote =)
I used to be very light on the shopping too, but marriage has made my shopping list increase by 1000%. Literally!
November 28th, 2005 at 9:51 pm
Spent about $600. Should get about $450 back in rebates, and the rest came from Finance deals, so I’m in good shape…
November 29th, 2005 at 6:24 am
I bought a fridge:$375. Some paint: $30. Rollers, brushes, dropcloths, etc: $35.
Money saved from sales: $115
Money spent on other people: $0