{"id":363749,"date":"2025-12-22T03:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363749\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T03:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:38:18","slug":"aussies-expected-to-spend-3-1b-despite-cost-of-living-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363749\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussies expected to spend $3.1b despite cost-of-living crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might have been a tough year with the rising cost of living but Australians are still expected spend big in the Boxing Day sales.<\/p>\n<p>The average shopper plans to spend $440 the day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/christmas\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Christmas \">Christmas<\/a> Day a survey found, with tills ringing to the tune of $3.1 billion.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>A Finder survey of more than 1000 Australian respondents revealed one-in-three Australians plan to shop the Boxing Day sales in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/cb1763a4-1f04-426a-966f-b718397d7d0b.jpeg\"   alt=\"People flock to Pitt Street Mall during Boxing Day sales in Sydney, Australia. \"\/>Bargain-hunters flock to Pitt Street Mall during Boxing Day Sales in Sydney.  (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffYounger shoppers are tipped to lead the spending, with Gen Y or Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) saying they will fork out $477 on average, and Gen X (born between 1965 and 1980) close behind at $467.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Z wants to splash out $416 while baby boomers, with a budget of $314, will be more mindful with their spending.<\/p>\n<p>Finder money expert Rebecca Pike said Boxing Day is a major moment on the retail calendar.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is now rivalled by the American-born sales day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/black-friday\" title=\"Black Friday\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black Friday<\/a>, which now takes up much of November.<\/p>\n<p>Many Boxing Day sales have already started,\ufeff including online.<\/p>\n<p>As many shopping addicts will know, preparation is key as popular products often disappear fast once sales begin, Pike said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/9152a93a-2222-4d03-b0fe-657eaa19f0e3.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Shoppers at the David Jones Boxing Day sale in Melbourne. (Luis Enrique Ascui)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tracking prices ahead of time makes it much easier to spot real value when discounts drop,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Signing up to retailer mailing lists can also pay off, with early access and subscriber-only offers often released before the public sales go live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pike recommends setting a budget and sticking to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t get sucked into buying something you don&#8217;t actually need just because it looks like a good deal. Stick to a list and have a strict budget in place,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/boxing-day-public-holiday-australia-history-origins-explained\/9e4dc719-3f70-4538-86b7-41f5c30bb30a\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Boxing Day was once\">Boxing Day was once<\/a> traditionally a day when tradespeople, servants and the poor were presented with gifts\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday appears to have originated in the UK and was brought to Australia when British colonisers arrived in the 18th and 19th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, when shops started being able to open on the day, it started to become a shopping event\ufeff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It might have been a tough year with the rising cost of living but Australians are still expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-363749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}