planetmoney:

A breakdown of what the average American household buys, based on government data (PDF) for December, 2011.

We didn’t include everything, but we included the biggies, as well as some smaller categories that caught our eye.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

Credit: Lam Thuy Vo / Planet Money

Dear average Americans, please spend more on books, magazines, and newspapers and less on alcohol. Your friend, Newsweek.

(via npr)

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    Pets and their stuff~7.5%

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    I like how alcohol isn’t under “recreation” but “food.”

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    consumerism.

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    American household buys, based...government data (PDF) for December, 2011. We didn’t...

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    drugs should be under recreation though haha

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    Yet the legal poverty rate is groceries x3…. So if you make anything more than approx. 20% of what the average household...

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