Happy St. Paddy’s Day – Bring Your Wallet Full Of Green – Dave’s Diary

Happy St. Patrick’s Day.  A day we celebrate anything green, some of us turn a little green by night’s end and we spend an awful lot of the green!   Our friends at the personal finance website WalletHub today released its St. Patrick’s Day By The Numbers report.

Would you believe $4.6 billion we’ll spend on St. Paddy’s Day this year!  Do you believe in leprechauns with a pot of gold valued at $1.3 million?

Some of other interesting stats include:

• $36.5: Average amount St. Patrick’s partiers will spend
• 70%: Increase in cabbage shipments during St. Patrick’s week
• 13M: Pints of Guinness will be consumed worldwide on St. Patrick’s Day
• 4^th: St. Patrick's Day's rank among the calendar’s most popular                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    drinkindays – behind New Year's Eve, Christmas and the Fourth of July
• 276: Drunk-driving casualties on St. Patrick Day (2009 - 2013)
• $60,967: Median income for Irish-American households (vs. $52,250 for all households)