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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

53% of Americans receive unwanted Christmas gifts

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

WIBC

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

Pat Sullivan here to remind you to stop putting screens on your gutters.

0:03.5

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0:07.3

So you stay off the ladder.

0:08.8

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0:13.5

gutter helmetindy.com.

0:14.9

There's a new study that came out that says 53% of Americans receive unwanted gifts.

0:21.6

I'll bet most of those are clothes.

0:23.3

Mm-hmm.

0:23.7

You think so?

0:24.6

Thanks for giving me a chore.

0:26.7

Now I've got to go return this.

0:27.9

Thanks, Grandma, for the pair of socks.

0:29.9

Ah, cool.

0:30.6

Neat.

0:30.8

Nearly half of Americans receive gifts they don't want this holiday season.

0:35.4

It's an estimated $10 billion will be spent on gifts that end up being

0:40.9

either re-gifted, returned, or discarded. I can't imagine just throwing it away. Something brand new,

0:48.0

bright and shiny, fresh out of the box, and you're just going to toss it. That's totally believable.

0:52.6

We live in a goodwill, Salvation Army, someplace.

0:55.1

We live in a disposable culture.

0:56.8

I mean, think about what they did with all those funco pop bobbleheads.

1:01.6

They ended up in a landfill, millions of them.

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