Fun Facts about Mother’s Day

Fun Facts about Mother’s Day

May 6, 2015
  • More phone calls are made on Mother’s Day than any other day of the year. These holiday chats with Mom often cause phone traffic to spike by as much as 37 percent.
  • 141 million Mother’s Day cards are exchanged annually in the United States.
  • Mother’s Day accounts for one-fourth of all holiday sales of flowers and plants.
  • Many people observe the long-time tradition of wearing a carnation on Mother’s Day. A colored carnation means that a person’s mother is living. A white carnation indicates that a person’s mother is dead.