That’s an average spending of about $215 for each man and $133 for each woman who participate in the holiday. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was money to be made on Mother’s Day, and, while the initial sentiment was still there, the holiday has a very long history of being shaped by economic profit.Īccording to the National Retail Federation, Americans are planning on spending a record-setting more than $21 billion for Mother’s Day this year. The holiday became widely commercialized in the early 1920s when handwritten thank-you notes were replaced with purchased cards, flowers, and gifts. ![]() President Woodrow Wilson declared the day a national holiday in 1914, and from that point on, as far as Jarvis was concerned, it went downhill.
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