{"id":12271,"date":"2025-02-17T14:29:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=12271"},"modified":"2025-02-17T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:29:42","slug":"valentines-day-and-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/valentines-day-and-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentines day and sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/02\/14\/americans-to-spend-14point6-billion-on-valentines-day-report-finds.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Americans to spend $14.6 billion on Valentine\u2019s Day, report finds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love is up in the air and so is spending. Spending it up point 4 billion from the past year. National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights &amp; Analytics.\u00a0 The survey polled 8,020 people in early January about their Valentine&#8217;s Day shopping. Unsurprisingly inflation has played a part in this. Inflation is up 3% as of January 2025. However many consumers are more willing to spend their money on meaningful experiences, especially for ones they love. In the article, there were alternative options because gifts have gotten so expensive. The first option was to shift your Valentine\u2019s Day. It was suggested if you can\u2019t make plans on Valentine\u2019s Day to consider celebrating the holiday on a different day a certified financial planner Carolyn McClanahan and the founder of Life Planning Partners in Jacksonville Florida suggests. if you\u2019re willing to go out the night before or after it can be a way to save. The second idea the article has to save money is to make a special meal at home. This way, it can be more flexible for you and your date and can be homemade. This can even be seen as more thoughtful. Another idea is because roses are so expensive on Valentine\u2019s Day. You could get a different type of flower. The third suggestion article has is a meaningful gift. McClanahan says \u201cThe more expensive the jewelry doesn\u2019t mean the more love you\u2019re giving.\u201d so instead of buying super expensive gifts you could buy more thoughtful gifts that could perhaps be cheaper. You could also make a homemade card or homemade gift therefore saving on money. There is a much better idea to get something special that may not be as expensive and something that the person would really want rather than just an expensive gift because it\u2019s expensive and nice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans to spend $14.6 billion on Valentine\u2019s Day, report finds\u00a0 Love is up in the air and so is spending. Spending it up point 4 billion from the past year. National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights &amp; Analytics.\u00a0 The survey polled 8,020 people in early January about their Valentine&#8217;s Day shopping. Unsurprisingly inflation has played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12272,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271\/revisions\/12272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}