Consumer Affairs Research Team

South Carolinians are the 10th worst with holiday shopping hangovers.

ConsumerAffairs’ data indicates SC is just behind West Virginia, Alabama, Rhode Island, Maine, Alaska, Iowa, Mississippi, Ohio and Colorado with the worst holiday shopping hangovers.

States with mildest holiday spending hangovers are Vermont, South Dakota, Montana, Utah, North Dakota, Delaware, New Mexico, Kansas, Idaho and Nevada.

To find which states are the worst, we surveyed 1,390 consumers.

We asked how much they spent on holiday shopping in 2019, if they felt like they overspent and the price of the best gift they bought.

We looked at the median income by state and the average credit card balances and credit scores by state.

While we took all of the necessary steps to ensure accuracy, weighing data is somewhat subjective.

We had a 95% confidence level with a 3% margin of error, ConsumerAffairs’ Vice President of Data and Analytics George Earl said.