The Importance of Mother's Day

Animalery Jarvis urged people to write to their mothers on Mother's Day. She'd written to her own mother incessantly, but when more than a week went by without a letter from Animalery, old Mrs Jarvis wrote to ask what was wrong. To compare Mother's Day to National Raisin Day does Mother's Day a disservice? Financially speaking, National Raisin day is a shrug, while Mother's Day is big business. A third of Americans dine out and the average person spends over $200 on Mother’s Day gifts,. Nobody spends $200 on raisins. Lee Eric Schmidt, a historian, examines the commercialization of holidays in his book, Consumer