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All About Valentine's Day

All About Valentine's Day Valentine's Day is February 14. Usually we just think about our own dinner, our own roses, our own sappy greeting cards... but what about everyone's Valentine's Days put together? All that romance really adds up quickly. $13.19 CANDY BILLION DINNER ROSES CARD $116.21 61.8% Average annual Valentine's Day of consumers Amount the avg. celebrate consumer spends on Valentine's Day Valentine's Day spending Gifts Most Given on Valentine's (Allowing For Multiple Gifts Given) CANDY FLOWERS CARDS 47.5% 34.3% 52.1% More than 36 MILLION 196 MILLION ROSES 180 MILLION CARDS heart shaped boxes of chocolate will be sold are produced annually for Valentine's Day. exchanged annually. for Valentine's Day. 85% OF CARDS 14% OF WOMEN are purchased They employ send themselves flowers. by women. 38,794 PEOPLE. DINING/ JEWELRY EATING OUT CLOTHING 17.3% 34.6% 14.4% There are 945,000 restaurant locations On average households spend $1,700/YEAR. THERE ARE 27,484 JEWELRY STORES in the United States. and 13 MILLION Annual Revenue: total employees. $2.2 BILLION $50 4000 0000 3006 7009 GIFT CARDS OTHER GIFTS 12.6% 11.2% 53% of women would break off the relationship if they didn't get something for Valentine's Day. Relationship Statistics Ratio of single men in their 20s to single Ratio of single men 65 or older to single women in their 20s. women 65 or older. 1.2 TO 1 .33 TO 1 904 AVAILABLE DATING SERVICES NATIONWIDE. IN IN 1992 IN 2012 LESS THAN 1 IN 100 Americans found 1 IN 5 FOUND partners online. partners via personal ads or marketers. 2.16 M 10% +40% Average number of marriages annually. of yearly proposals take place on V-Day. THAT'S 220,000! Increase in divorce lawyer requests around mid-Feb. Fun Facts About February 14th BE MINE RETURN TO SENDER: TOO RUDE 1849 25,000 Esther Howard of Valentine postcards Worcester, Mass. published the US's 1st ever Valentine. were once refused to be delivered by the Chicago Post Office because they bore unkind messages. $367 M 45% Don't forget Fido; collectively, consumers spend this much on Valentine's Day gifts for their pets each year. of men think flowers are the way "I love you" on Feb. 14. 4% of women do. That is not a typo. to say, KATE AND WILLIAM'S LOVE STORY! Miss Middleton said she went bright red and scuttled off, feeling very shy, when she was first introduced to the Prince, and denied stories that she had a picture of him on her wall as a child. Prince William described how he decided to propose to his girlfriend of seven years during a holiday in Kenya with friends. Prince William decided to give Miss Middleton his late mother's sapphire and diamond engagement ring, which he took out of a safe where it had been kept since her death in 1997. You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong, but I proposed and she said yes, so I'm really pleased. HOW WILL YOU SPEND YOUR VALENTINE'S DAY? SOURCES: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/06/health/online- dating-pitfalls/index.html candy.about.com/od/thecandyindustry/a/vday_trivia.htm http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/14/us- internet-love-idUSTRE81C1Q420120214 http://www.statisticbrain.com/valentines-day-statistics/ http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/13/valentines-day-2012-by-the-numbers/#ixzz2KKqnwuYn http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/13/valentines-day-2012-by-the-numbers/#ixzz2J1ZyQprV http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/13/valentines-day-2012-by-the-numbers/#ixzz2J1ZtX2pN http://amolife.com/reviews/top-2o-most-famous-love-stories-in-history-and-literature.html http://candy.about.com/od/thecandyindustry/a/vday_trivia.htm Book: Let's Celebrate Valentine's Day by Connie Roop and Peter Roop (http://books.google.com/books) LIBERTY TAX SERVICE %24 ]cl•[•]

All About Valentine's Day

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61.8% of consumers celebrate Valentine's Day, and the cost of all that romance adds up quickly!

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