{"id":12126,"date":"2013-05-12T03:38:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T10:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12126"},"modified":"2013-05-12T03:38:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T10:38:06","slug":"mothers-day-spending-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mothers-day-spending-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Day Spending Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/momdays.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Top 3 Mother&#8217;s Day gifts shown in photos are flowers, food and jewelry<\/p>\n<p>Working hard to support the family day in and day out, mom will be more than recognized for her devotion this Mother\u2019s Day with consumers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/big-on-sweets-for-mothers-day-celebration\/\">expected to splurge<\/a> in 2013, spending an average of $168.94, up 11% from 2012. Total spending is expected to reach $20.7 billion.\u00a0Some plan to stretch the budget this year and treat mom to that tablet or smartphone. 14.1% \u2013 the highest in survey history \u2013 of shoppers this Mother\u2019s Day are purchasing electronics, spending approx. $2.3 billion. 34.4% of gift givers are buying jewelry, spending a total of $4.2 billion, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mothers-day-photo\/\">up from last year&#8217;<\/a>s $3.7 expenditures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most popular gifts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jewelry $4.2 billion<\/li>\n<li>Special \u00a0brunch or dinner $3.5 billion<\/li>\n<li>Flowers $2.3 billion<\/li>\n<li>Electronics $2.3 billion<\/li>\n<li>Gift cards $2 billion<\/li>\n<li>Clothing and accessories $1.7 billion<\/li>\n<li>Day spa, etc. $1.5 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Where to shop<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Department store 34.4%<\/li>\n<li>Discount stores 29.1%<\/li>\n<li>Online 28.5%<\/li>\n<li>Specialty stores including jewelers, florists and electronics stores \u00a036.6%<\/li>\n<li>Specialty clothing stores 8.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 3 Mother&#8217;s Day gifts shown in photos are flowers, food and jewelry Working hard to support the family day in and day out, mom will be more than recognized for her devotion this Mother\u2019s Day with consumers expected to splurge in 2013, spending an average of $168.94, up 11% from 2012. Total spending is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}