{"id":2383142,"date":"2024-12-23T16:12:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-parents-will-spend-588-per-child-this-christmas-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:14:34","slug":"michigan-parents-will-spend-588-per-child-this-christmas-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-parents-will-spend-588-per-child-this-christmas-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan parents will spend $588 per child this Christmas &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-parents-will-spend-588-per-child-this-christmas-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2383142&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-partners-drag-queen-with-kermit-the-frog-to-host-lgbtq-pride-concert\/\" title=\"Disney Partners Drag Queen With Kermit The Frog To Host LGBTQ Pride Concert\">content appears<\/a> to start with a\u2062 button labeled &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221; which, when clicked, likely reveals \u2063additional details. 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This is according to a survey from CouponBirds.<\/p>\n<p>Even though parents are not expecting to cut back on Christmas this year, 49% of parents are anticipating going into debt to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>Most of those will use credit cards to pay for Christmas gifts, while 21% plan to use buy now, pay later services, which have skyrocketed over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan parents will spend an average amount compared to other states.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey ($712), Texas ($659), and Pennsylvania\/Massachusetts ($648) will have the highest amount of spending by parents, while South Dakota ($247), West Virginia ($255), and Nebraska ($263) will have the lowest.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the parents polled, 9% will spend more than $1,000 per child, while only 4% will spend less than $100.<\/p>\n<p>Experts are also anticipating record overall spending on Christmas this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Retail Federation, consumers in the U.S. will spend an average of $902 on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">core holiday items including gifts<\/a>, decorations, food and other holiday-related purchases this year. That is up $27 or 3.1% from last year&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-thanksgiving-weekend-sales-hit-record-38-bln-on-big-discounts-report\/\" title=\"US Thanksgiving weekend sales reach record-breaking  billion due to significant discounts, says report\">holiday budgets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It also found that, while the majority of Americans shopping online for the holiday season, 45% also anticipated shopping at discount stores.<\/p>\n<p>How much you spend will also depend on where you live.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A study by WalletHub examined over 550 cities throughout the United States. Troy will have the largest Christmas budget of the cities polled in Michigan, with $2,561.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan&rsquo;s lowest Christmas budget is in Flint, where residents are expected to spend an average of $678.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1919602\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1919602\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan parents will spend $588 per child this Christmas, exceeding the national average of $461, according to a CouponBirds survey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2383143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/iStock-2182081238-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6922,4601,5007,3834,32076],"class_list":["post-2383142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christmas","tag-michigan","tag-parents","tag-spending","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/iStock-2182081238-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383146,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383142\/revisions\/2383146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}