Americans want to receive experiences, not stuff

29 November 2016

One of my refrains around any holiday is urging folks to give the gift of experiences, not stuff. I see how gifts can so easily become clutter, because people tend to resist discarding anything they received as a gift.

So I was really pleased to get an email from SpareFoot about their recent study that found that most people don’t use the gifts they receive and that 81% would rather receive experiences.

Here’s an infographic summarizing the study results:

For the nitty-gritty details, you can read the complete results of the SpareFoot Holiday and New Year Survey conducted by Wakefield Research.

The study comes from SpareFoot.com, the place to find the best deals on self-storage and full-service storage via their blog post, This holiday season, Americans want experiences, not stuff.

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