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Spending habits
How do American teenagers spend their money: on clothes, 
or food, or apps? Let’s find out.
Style is important for American teenagers, so it isn’t 
surprising that they spend nearly 40% of their money on 
clothes and make-up.
However, teenagers don’t just buy clothes in shops. Over 
80% of teenagers shop online for fashionable clothes. 
Amazon is their favourite shopping site, but Nike and eBay 
are also popular. Teens particularly like to buy shoes on the 
internet. That’s because there aren’t many fashionable shoe
shops in town centres. There is more choice on shopping 
websites – and for many teenagers, it is very important to 
wear the ‘right’ brand!
But young people aren’t only interested in clothes and 
fashion. a lot of teenagers meet in coffee shops and 
restaurants, and they spend 23% of their money there on 
food and drink.
When you add together the percentages for apps, games, 
electronics, films and music, you can see that American 
teenagers spend a lot of their money on entertainment too.
4.18 Culture 3, Exercises 5 and 6
Andy
I don’t spend much money on clothes. I think fashion is 
really boring! I buy jeans, T-shirts and sweatshirts but I 
never buy smart clothes because I never need to wear very 
smart clothes. I spend most of my money on apps and video
games. I’m a big fan of games!
Beth
I spend money on clothes – but not very often. Some of my 
friends really spend a lot, but not me. When I buy new 
clothes, I look for something cheap. I like fashionable 
clothes and I like reading about the latest fashions in 
magazines. But I don’t buy them. I think they’re 
too expensive.
Dan
I often meet my friends in town three or four times a week. 
We sit and chat in Starbuck’s or McDonald’s, or sometimes 
we go to the cinema. It’s actually quite expensive. But a cup 
of coffee can last a long time! I also play a lot of video 
games with my friends, so I buy apps and games for my 
tablet too.
Lisa
I don’t like shops, so I buy things from shopping websites. I 
need a new tablet, so I’m going to look on eBay. Prices are 
usually much lower than on normal shopping websites, and 
you can find some really interesting things.
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