10. We spent a whopping $117 billion on fast food. That's enough French fries to build an Eiffel Tower.
9. Slamming down brewskies set us back $96 billion.
8. We shelled out $34.6 billion on gambling.
7. Getting rid of those coffee and Coke stains is big business — a cool $1.4 billion in business.
6. Halloween pet costumes totaled $310 million worth of cute.
5. That sweet new ink? It'll cost you $2.3 billion.
4. Then you'll change your mind and have it removed — for a mere $66 million.
3. Keeping dead beasts around isn't cheap — we spent $800 million on taxidermy.
2. Girl Scout cookies alone set us back $800 million.
1. Compared to that, a mere half-billion spent on Twinkies makes us look downright health-conscious.
Americans spend billions annually getting fat and wasted
7/20/2012Bet you didn't know that Americans spent more than $10 trillion last year on shopping. We're not even sure how many zeroes that is, but we do know that it would only have been about $9.8 trillion if we could just cut out the junk food and beer. Yeah, your fellow countrymen are a bunch of fat, drunken slobs — no surprise there. But to be fair, we also spent billions on more important stuff, like making sure our teeth are as white as can be, and getting tattoos — then removing them. [Source]
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