12 Drummers Drumming – $2,775 11 Pipers Piping – $2,562 10 Lords-a-Leaping – $4,766 9 Ladies Dancing – $6,294 8 Maids-a-Milking – $58 7 Swans-a-Swimming – $7000 6 Geese-a-Laying – $210 5 Gold Rings – $750 4 Colling Birds – $520 3 French Hens – $165 2 Turtle Doves – $125 And a Partridge in a Pear Tree – $205
Total cost: $25,430. Not bad right? Well there’s one problem. If you follow the song’s precise instructions, you are technically supposed to buy items consecutively on each of the 12 days. For example, on the third day of Christmas you are actually supposed to buy 10 Lords-a-Leaping, 11 Pipers Piping AND 12 Drummers Drumming. On the 12th day of Christmas you are buying all 364 items at once. If you follow these rules, the real price of the 12 Days of Christmas rises to $107,300! The 2012 price of the 12 Days of Christmas is the highest in recorded history. What costs $107,300 this year cost just $55,000 a decade ago. That means the price of these items has increased nearly 100% since 2002. Are Turtle Doves going extinct or something? So what do you think, are you gonna go out and buy your true love every item from the 12 Days of Christmas? Personally I’d rather get the cash and maybe a steak dinner prepared by this girl: What are you hoping to get for Christmas this year?
