SOME CARD INFO MAY BE OUTDATED This page includes information about these cards, currently unavailable on NerdWallet. The information has been collected by NerdWallet and has not been provided or reviewed by the card issuer. American households spent an average of $539 on bakery products and $131 on postage and stationery in 2024. Those are a few of the quirkier spending habits tracked and categorized in the Consumer Expenditure Surveys, a nationwide survey of more than 30,000 people. The federal government has conducted detailed expenditure surveys since 1888. The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases this data, which includes spending details on hundreds of items for different generations, in one-year batches. While it may seem outdated by the time it’s released — particularly last year, when the 2024 data release was delayed until December due to the federal government shutdown — the tradeoff is specificity: We can put the spending patterns of specific groups of Americans under a magnifying glass.…