Thanksgiving By The Numbers

For those who sleep in, eat some turkey and binge-watch some TV shows on Netflix during Thanksgiving weekend (all totally acceptable activities, by the way), you might not realize everything that goes into creating a wonderful and memorable Thanksgiving holiday. In fact, you might even think that Thanksgiving just happens, and it doesn't. There's a lot of money, time and effort involved.

How much, you say? As we reflect back on this year's Thanksgiving, let's take a look at the holiday purely by the numbers and see what this holiday is really made of.

- 1621: The year of the first Thanksgiving at the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.

- 140: The approximate number of Pilgrims and members of the Wampanoag tribe that attended the harvest celebration considered to be the first Thanksgiving.

- 3: The number of days the first Thanksgiving celebration lasted.

- 46 million: The number of turkeys eaten on Thanksgiving 2013.

- 736 million: The amount of pounds of turkey eaten on Thanksgiving in 2012.

- $49.41: The average cost of Thanksgiving dinner this year.

- 100,000+: The number of questions the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line experts receive in November and December.

- 26: The number of turkeys that have been pardoned by the President of the United States to date.

- $2.85: The average price per gallon of gas that Thanksgiving travelers will pay on the road this year.

- 549: The average distance traveled by Americans roundtrip for Thanksgiving this year.

- 44.8 million: The number of consumers that shopped on Thanksgiving Day in 2013.

- 92.1 million: The number of Black Friday shoppers in 2013.

- $407: The average amount a shopper spent from Thanksgiving Day to the Sunday after Thanksgiving in 2012.

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