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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 2: It if you do?

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Speaker 3: I wish it was eight seventy five. I wish it

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Speaker 3: was that.

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Speaker 2: Please no more. I wish that was your budget.

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Speaker 3: I wish that was rare. Yeah.

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

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Speaker 2: eight seventy five or more?

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Speaker 1: More?

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Speaker 2: It's a little more more? 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: can give my wife everything I think she wanted most,

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Speaker 3: I'll go way over.

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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 finna do that. No, no, no, we're not finn.

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Speaker 3: To do that.

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Speaker 6: You're gonna get in two different worlds though, No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 6: we're in the same world.

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Speaker 5: You're sitting up here getting everything she won't and more. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you crazy, sit down and talk to her so you

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Speaker 5: can find out what that really is.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.