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Americans borrowed $88 billion to pay for medical bills last year

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...year/39287831/

What else did Americans spend billions on last year? Hey Google. . .

Americans spent $39.4 billion on drunk purchases in 2018.

Halloween Spending- 2018 total is just under the all-time high of $9.1 billion, set last year.

In 2017, $69.51 billion was spent on pets, including more than $6 billion on services like boarding and grooming.

Americans are expected to spend $20.7 billion on Valentine’s Day this year, and only half the population plans to celebrate, according to the National Retail Federation

Parents of adult children contribute $500 billion annually -- twice the amount that they invest in their own retirement accounts.

Americans are expected to spend a total of $14.8 billion on Super Bowl parties

$100 billion — that’s how much Americans spent on sports over the past 12 months

According to the Beverage Marketing Corporation, bottled water was an $18.5 billion industry in the U.S. in 2017.