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Speaker 1: There are those with the mindset of spend now, regret later,

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Speaker 1: but there are also those who do their best to

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Speaker 1: shop within their Christmas gift budget.

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Speaker 2: I give a lot of gift cards pretty much show

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Speaker 2: so I know what I'm gonna give them. I've already calculated,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like budgeted the amount and

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give so.

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Speaker 1: Helen from Boston was able to spend what she was

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Speaker 1: expecting to, not something many others could say. As MasterCard

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Speaker 1: says shoppers spent nearly four percent more this year between

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Speaker 1: November one and December twenty first compared to last.

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Speaker 2: Pretty much, I budgeted out and this is what I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna give. Maybe one hundred dollars for this person, maybe

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Speaker 2: fifty for that person. So pretty much. Yeah, then it

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Speaker 2: doesn't leave you stranded and all stressed out.

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Speaker 1: After all, there was a lot to stress over this year,

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Speaker 1: including tariffs and inflation and Dewey Square. James Rojas w

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Speaker 1: b Z, Boston's news radio