Fun Facts about Mother’s day
Here are a few fun facts about Mother’s Day:
- there was a stamp created to commemorate Mother’s Day in 1934
- Mother’s Day is the biggest day of the year for restaurants. Nearly one third of the population eats out.
- There are easily over a hundred million phone calls made just on Mother’s Day every single year. More phone calls are made on Mother’s Day than any other day of the year.
- There are an estimated 1.7 billion mothers worldwide
- Red carnations are actually used to celebrate mothers that are still alive while white carnations are used to place on graves of mothers who have passed off
- According to the greeting card association Mother’s Day is also the third largest day for greeting cards. Nearly 113 million greeting cards are sold just behind valentine’s day and Christmas.
- the national retail federation says that in 2020 we spent 26.7 billion dollars on Mother’s Day. 86% of Americans celebrate it and spend an average of 205 dollars each
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