2023 Thanksgiving by the Numbers

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Happy Thanksgiving!

From WalletHub…

Settlers of the Plymouth Colony and their Wampanoag tribe predecessors kicked off a grand tradition way back in 1621. And for that we should all be thankful, if for nothing else than a day off from work and school. But the Thanksgiving we celebrate today is a lot different than that first festival in honor of a particularly bountiful harvest.

Sure, we still eat turkey, potatoes and pumpkin. And we continue to use the occasion to reflect on the things we cherish most, such as friends and family. But a pair of additional F’s – football and Friday – has become just as important to some.

The NFL’s Thanksgiving games earned close to 99 million combined viewers last year, and we spent more than $5.2 billion on Black Friday shopping – on top of the billions we spent preparing for Thanksgiving itself. So if it isn’t tryptophan that puts you to sleep this Thanksgiving, it might be 12 hours of pigskin or an early wake-up call for a day of deal hunting.

Regardless of how you plan to celebrate Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday shopping season; we’ve got you covered. WalletHub took an in-depth look at Thanksgiving’s humble roots and how it has evolved over time in preparing this report. The infographic below is filled with all kinds of Thanksgiving facts, from how much we spend to how much we eat.

5 Thanksgiving Facts for 2023:

  • $325 – Average person’s spending over the five-day Thanksgiving period.
  • 10 Hrs. – Length of time the average American male would need to spend on the treadmill to burn the 4,500 calories consumed at the average Thanksgiving meal.
  • $949 Million – Estimated amount Americans spend on Thanksgiving turkeys each year, with 40 million turkeys killed for the holiday.
  • $26 Million – Amount of property loss caused by residential building fires each Thanksgiving.
  • 77% – Share of people celebrating Thanksgiving who try to avoid having to talk politics at the dinner table.

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5 thoughts on “2023 Thanksgiving by the Numbers”

  2. And a happy Thanksgiving to you Mike. Did you see that the canvas ran from 3:30 till 9:30 and no results were certified. The motion was tabled. Stay tuned!

      • Jasmine Taylor has one person’s take on the canvass meeting on her Facebook page. According to that it sounds like quite the clown show.

        Past canvass meetings seemingly haven’t taken anywhere near this long. According to minutes and audio on the County website, the canvass for the equivalent election in 2021 took less than 1/2 hour. The canvass for all the Spring 2023 special districts elections took about an hour, including public comments. The 2023 library levy canvass took less than 1/2 hour. But for this Nov. 2023 election voila! six hours and they couldn’t get finished, even without hearing public comments? Something smells slightly rotten in Denmark.

        Regardless of the reasons real or imagined for the tally/checking taking so long, the process was successfully slow walked so that (according to Taylor) members of the public who had come to comment gave up and left. That’s one way of avoiding having to listen to THAT noise.

        If this is going to be the new norm for canvasses imagine what a “big” election in an even year with lots of offices, candidates, and ballot measures will look like if this is now going to be the Merchant era norm. All week events.

        https://www.facebook.com/jasmineforhd22

        Happy Thanksgiving, Cascade County! Stuff yourselves until you’re comatose, drink lots of wine, veg out in front of TV football, and just never you mind about local government affairs. You’re in good hands!

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