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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Leanne Italie and Amelia Thomson-Deveaux

What Americans think about giving cash as holiday gifts, according to a new AP-NORC poll

AP Poll Gifts - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Welcome to exhausted America 2025: Most adults are more than a little fine with doling out cash as gifts, and many plan to be asleep before midnight on New Year's Eve, according to a new AP-NORC poll.

About 6 in 10 Americans say cash or gift cards are “very” acceptable as holiday presents, but they’re much less likely to say that about a gift that was purchased secondhand or re-gifted, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

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