National Statistics has produced a report - Family Spending - which shows how family spending in the UK has changed over the last 50 years.
The stats compare 1957 with 2006 and although there is no like for like comparison on travel expenditure, what is interesting is that if you combined the money spent abroad and amount spent on buying the holiday, travel would be the second biggest expenditure behind mortgage payments. Travel has become a top spending priority.
The second biggest weekly expenditure in 1957 was . . . cigarettes.
Martin Couzins, online editor
Source: Cigarettes then, holidays now
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