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Speaker 1: Research from the National Retail Federation reveals that Americans expect

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Speaker 1: to spend and average of eight hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 1: dollars on holiday gifts, decorations, food, and other seasonal items. Overall,

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Speaker 1: holiday spending is expected to reach record levels in November

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Speaker 1: and December, and the most popular gift is still gift cards,

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Speaker 1: with fifty five percent of shoppers saying they'd like to

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Speaker 1: get them this year, followed by clothes and accessories, books,

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Speaker 1: video games or other media, and personal care or beauty items.

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Speaker 2: So here's a question for you, guys.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a budget for holiday spending and do

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Speaker 1: you actually stick to.

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Speaker 3: It if you do, I wish it was eight seventy five.

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Speaker 2: I wish it was that. Please more more. I wish

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Speaker 2: that was your budget. I wish that was your Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I stick to my budget. Do you it was your

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Speaker 2: budget eight seventy five or more?

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Speaker 4: More more more?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I go.

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Speaker 3: I go over every year because I make sure I

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Speaker 3: give my wife everything. I think you won't any more,

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Speaker 3: I'll go away over more.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, you gotta cut back on buying

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Speaker 4: for everybody.

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Speaker 2: I can't do that. You can't do what budget?

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Speaker 5: You're my wife everything she won't and more. No, we're

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Speaker 5: not going to do that. No, no, we're not Sunna

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Speaker 5: do that. You're gonna get in two different worlds. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 5: we're in the same world. You're sitting up here getting

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Speaker 5: everything she want and more. Yeah, you crazy sit down

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Speaker 5: and talk to her so you can find out what

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Speaker 5: that really is.

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Speaker 1: After the hour, we'll play another round.

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Speaker 2: Would you rather?

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