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Speaker 1: How much are you planning on spending on Thanksgiving this year?

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Speaker 2: Probably about anyway up between four and five hundred, Probably.

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Speaker 3: Like two hundred dollars. I'm just going to my parents

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Speaker 3: in New Hampshire, so just doing appetizers, cheese, wars and stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, a new survey says the average American will likely

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Speaker 1: spend close to one thousand dollars for Turkey Day this

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Speaker 1: year on everything from food and drinks to travel. Well,

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Speaker 1: most people I talked to were shocked by that number.

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Speaker 1: Foson says he can see it.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, it does make sense, just because probably a lot

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Speaker 4: of people are going on planes.

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Speaker 1: But with food prices up eighteen percent from where they

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Speaker 1: were three years ago, folks are looking for ways to save.

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Speaker 5: I try to put a not much like twenty or

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Speaker 5: thirty dollars away every week into a little account, you know,

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Speaker 5: not try to take it out, but you know, sometimes

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Speaker 5: it adds up.

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Speaker 1: From Somerville, Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio