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THE AVERAGE AMOUNT that children made from their Holy Communions this year was €543.
That is down from €591 last year.
A new survey has also found that on average, girls did better out of the day, taking back an average of €570, compared with the smaller sum of €512 for boys
Cost of the day
Beyond the outlay on gift money, the cost of the various other expenses associated with the day also ran to a large amount.
The average spend on this was found to be €749 – a decrease of €15 from last year when it ran to €764.
This broke down as €326.74 on food, drink and celebrations; €175.37 on their child’s outfit for the day; €192.22 for the outfits of other family members and; €118.93 on children’s entertainment.
What else did we learn from the survey?
It was found that 13% of children had not spent their Communion money yet, having decided to save it. Around 15% of those involved in the survey had spent the money.
Girls were found to be more likely than boys to save their money.
The most popular items purchased with the money included computer games, toys, sports equipment, and clothes.
The figures have come out of a study carried out as part of the annual Ulster Bank Communion Survey which interviewed more than 200 parents online last month and this month. The parents interviewed had a slightly higher number of girls (54%) than boys (46%).
Last month TheJournal.ie took to the streets to ask people what they remembered about their Holy Communions. Here is what they had to tell us:
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Great idea from an Post.
I was in SuperValu shopping this week. I saw a lot of people who were definitely over 70.
Some seem to have no choice but to go out, collect pensions, go shopping for food, fuel etc.
It’s next to impossible to get an online delivery slot for shopping to be delivered.
You can’t ask people to stay in and offer minimal support, the Guards are helping some people, and this is a good initiative. But more needs to be done if the elderly are to be housebound.
@Mark Walsh: what p#sses me off is a neighbour of mine in good health and in her mid 30′s is still getting Tesco delivered when she is probably taking a slot from somebody that really needs it, I’m sure she is one of many around the country.
@Sharp Elsi Mate: how do you know your neighbour isn’t in an at risk group? It’s not just the elderly. Neighbour may have medical condition you don’t know about
@karen: she has been doing it for the last 2 years at least so unless her and her husband could see this coming or are that unfortunate I’d be very surprised. Not to mind the tesco is over 20 miles away and there is a fine big Supervalu on their doorstep. All i am saying is people need to be a bit more sensible.
@Sharp Elsi Mate: is your neigh our high risk?
Brillaint idea, as a concconer I hope these ideas are used after the emerengcy. Let’s build a better society where we all are involved in everybody’s care…
@David Dineen: absolutely. Cocooning too.
@David Dineen: that’d be lovely David, but Cant see it happening.
People are selfish, as long as it doesn’t effect them, they don’t really care.
Apart from the odd nice person
And living in a flat most of us don’t even know each other
Which makes me sad ,
we just hardly ever see each other
What about the post persons families?the more interaction they have the more likely it is they will get c19.they do have homes to go to as well.
@Stan Kowalskis: read the last line of the article. In practice they knock on the door and stand back a few metres until the person answers. If they don’t answer then they alert authorities
newspapers are yesterday’s news full of bacteria and virus they should be left on the shelf.
@Richard Russell: True Also all the food delivered could have germs.
Everything could. Even if the items are picked off shelves by a person using gloves, that means nothing, gloves still pass the virus from item to item!
But what else Can We do. There aren’t many solutions
It seems everything has a risk
@Richard Russell: everything is full of bacteria.
News papers only available in cities and counties just outside Dublin. For those living in the countryside and rural areas, as per usual no service available.
I just wanted to put it out there
my partner is my carer, he had to wait in a Que over 2 and half hours outside Tesco
He was in Bits by time he got back.
Then all I wanted to do was wipe everything with anti bacterial wipes.
Its a very frightening time especially for the more vulnerable amongst us
I really Feel for them.
If I didn’t have him, even without him being my carer, I couldn’t Que that long, I have terribly painful bad back and over active bladder!
@Fox&hounddog: Bacteria are different from viruses so anti-bacterial wipes don’t affect Covid-19.
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