Spending more on your other half means you'll stay with them for...LESS!
Posted by Bertie onWednesday Mar 16, 2011 Under Surveys
Being the type of company who like to interact with our customers (OK, our analyst/bloggers are a wee bit nosey!!) we thought we'd do a little experiment based on peoples spending habits to see if there is any correlation between the amount of money they spend on gifts for the ones they love and the duration they stay with their nearest and dearest.
Valentine’s Day presented itself as the perfect opportunity to run such a survey as surely as a nation, this is when we are at our most generous and offer our protestations of love to our nearest and dearest in the form of a goody of one type or another.
On this premise, We somewhat ingeniously entitled this the:
"Does how much you spend on your other half determine how long you'll be with them? Survey".
Catchy.
From the outset we have to say the survey has revealed some interesting and slightly alarming results!
Out of the 168 respondents, the data shows that people who spend the lowest amount on gifts for each other stay together longer. Eeeek!
I know that this is sure to strike a note of terror into every chocolate loving; handbag toting; jewellery wearing; designer-label clad woman the World across, but the facts speak for themselves! In a nutshell, people who spend less stay together longer. (Men all over the country are rubbing their hands together with glee!)
Don't believe us? Here's a couple of the obligatory, all important (although slightly dull looking) pie charts:
The survey showed that in the group of people spending £10 or less on their Valentine, a whopping 67% of them have been together for more than 11yrs! In the group spending £30 or less, only a third of them have been together for more than 11 yrs; and for those of us who weighed in for a prezzy between £30 and £50 on their Valentines, only a paltry 20% have been together for more than 11 years.
More alarmingly - especially for those who like the finer things in life - of those who spent £50 or more for their "gift of luuurrrve" only a measly 15% of them have been together with their loved one for more than 11yrs and a whopping 31% of them will be moving on to pastures new relationship wise in less than 3 years. Gulp!
By now I'm sure that every red blooded woman will be sitting down in a cold sweat and men everywhere will be cheering! Unless of course they want to split up with their 'other half' as it could end up costing em!
Sylvia Edwards - content Editor for Prezzybox.com commented "Although the results were slightly surprising, the news isn’t all bad though as the survey also shows that generally speaking, men tend to spend more than women on gifts for their loved ones". Ah but, hang on a minute, from the survey’s point of view, that means the relationship will not necessarily last! Drat! Talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place!
I guess the way to look at this is in a positive way and ask whether the duration of the relationship is more important than expensive gifts. A friend of mine used to test the strength of her feelings for a man by asking herself whether she would rather spend an hour with said beau or an hour perusing the racks in Marks and Spencer, and the one time M & S lost, she married the man! She was more interested in spending the rest of her life with this man than in wondering how much he would spend on presents for her on St. Valentines Day and they are still together now. Who said romance was dead?
Most women would I think agree that a single rose says so much more than a whole bunch of roses and even a cheap bouquet of flowers bought hastily from a service station for no reason at all can mean the world if it says “I love you”.
I think most men would simply utter one word. "Hallelujah".
Maybe we should all take heart from the immortal words of two of our best loved, intelligent and enduring songwriters, namely, Lennon and McCartney when they sang….
“I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love”. It seems they got it right.
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