What’s trending for Valentines Day
We show our love for each other in a lot of different ways come Valentine’s Day but more often than not we show that love by breaking open our piggy banks.
In 2018 it’s believed that Cupid’s favorite day generated over 19 billion dollars we know that not all of that was spent on just sweets for our sweets though. So where did all that come from well for starters a good bit of that does happen to be fueled by our sweet tooth. Americans spent an average of 1.7 billion dollars on candies each year for Valentine’s Day that includes 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate which all had up to a staggering 58 million pounds worth of chocolate. According to the National chocolate Association, caramel filled chocolates are the most popular in the box followed closely behind by chocolate covered nuts.
It’s not quite Valentine’s Day either without professing your love via everyone’s favorite holiday staple. Conversation hearts every box is packed full of up to 45 unique say to help you find just the right words for your special Valentine .Every year more than 8 billion of these colorful hearts are manufactured. Production must start just days after Valentine’s Day in order will to make enough in time. They make almost a hundred thousand pounds of these chocolate delights every single day. Don’t worry if you happen to have last year’s box lying around because these words have staying power they have an average shelf life of five years but you may just want to toss that old box as around 10 new phrases are added each season to add to your candy pick up line arsenal.
We don’t just measure our love-in grains of sugar though. We also can’t get enough of petals and stems this time of year an estimated two billion dollars will be spent on flowers for the special ones in our lives of the 124.6 million households who celebrate the holiday 43 million will be giving flowers to their loved ones for Valentine’s Day. Roses topped the charts as the most popular flower of the day so popular in fact that Americans send more than 220 million roses each and every year. It may surprise you who exactly is leading the charge in floral sales but in 2016 it was reported that 63 percent of purchases came from those who were under the age of 35. And to anyone who has ever told you that you can’t be your own Valentine well they can eat their hearts out because in 2015 18 % of women said they had sent themselves flowers for the big day.
Flowers may be nice but they’ll eventually fade jewelry on the other hand shines for quite a bit longer. People spend around 4.7 billion dollar son jewelry every Valentine’s Day. But material goods aren’t the only gifts were looking for in fact according to the National Retail Federation 40 percent of consumers said they would prefer an experienced gift. Something like a concert an evening out on the town or a trip somewhere new over material gift. It may be a trend Continued into the future as well as 45% of people aged 18 to 24 and 40% of people aged 25 to 34 say they plan on giving the gift of an experience for Valentine’s Day this year.
Please don’t think we forgot about our four-legged friends either every year around 9 million people buy their pets a Valentine’s Day gift as well. Now no gifts complete without a heartfelt card to bring it all together. Valentine’s cards got their start in the United Kingdom but eventually made their way across the pond to the United States in the mid-1800s when a Massachusetts based printer named Esther Howard offered them for the first time. Hallmark eventually got in on the act in the early 1900s and left their mark on holiday history. Fast-forward to today and 150 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged each year second only to Christmas.
Don’t forget to stuff your Valentines pocket socks full of love!
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