Everything You Need to Know About Mother’s Day

Littlewoods Mother's Day Marcho 18th 2012 Everything you need to know about.. Mothering Sunday is sometimes know as Refreshment Sunday, Pudding Pie Sunday (in Surrey, England) or Simnel Sunday due to the practice of baking Simnel cakes to celebrate the reuniting of families during the austerity of Lent. The Royal Mail is expected to handle more than 12 million items 00 What mumis reatly want 52% A cuddle 26% A card 52% 10% A personally chosen gift 26% 9% Lots of attention 8% Weekend away 10% 3% Breakfast in bed 9% 8% 3% Dinner in a restaurant 2% Home-made dinner 2% Flowers 2% 3%3% 2% 0% Chocolates 143 Countries celebrate Mother's Day around the World Average number of children per mum 1.8 (down from 2.1 1971) OneMum 64 Children The modern world record for giving birth is held by Leontina Albina from San Antonio, Chile. Leontina claims to be the mother of 64 children. She is listed in the Guinness World Records. Luckily Chile is one of the countries who celebrate Mother's Day. Breakdown of flowers bought on Mother's Day 3.7 million mixed bouquets 394,000 bunches of roses 294.000 bunches of tulips 293,000 bunches of freesia 93,000 foliage plants A third of flowers sold on Mother's Day were through mobile devices Breakdvan of gifts 11414141ÀÌ 90% Send a card 29% Being hand made TATET 84% Buy flowers as well 1111111111 49% % Will take mum out £56,250,000 Spent on Mother's Day cards with an average price paid of £2.05 Mum £55,000,000 Spent on chocolates with around 4 million people giving mum a box Mother's Day Littlewoods www.littlewoods.com Sources: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_9430000/newsid_9439700/9439714.stm www.pmewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=81161 www.dotcomgiftshop.com/blog/mothers-day / http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2011/04/20/the-one-gift-moms-want-this-mothers-day/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_day http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7071611.stm www.mothersdaycelebration.com/mothers-day-trivia.html www.progressivegreetingslive.co.uk/thebuzz/greeting-card-association-market-report-2011 www.express.co.uk/posts/view/261771 www.royalmail.com/search/google_cse_adv/mothers%20day www.gpmd.co.uk/blog/mobile-usagestatistics/ www.progressivegreetingslive.co.uk/thebuzz/greetingcard-association-market-report-2011 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371528/Mothers-Day-Nearly-half-UK-send-Facebook-message-text instead-card.html www.littlestuff.co.uk/2011/06/fathers-day-got-a-gift-sorted-they-did-more-for-mothers-day-fact/