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The True Cost of Christmas?

I love stuff like this!

You think saving for a new flat-panel plasma television or iPod Nano for the holidays is daunting? Be thankful you don’t have to save for the original gifts of the "12 Days of Christmas."

To buy the partridge in a pear tree, the 12 drummers drumming and all the gifts in between in the verses of the famous song you’d have to shell out $18,348, according to PNC Advisors’ annual survey. And if you were really true to the song, buying all the gifts including the repetitions? Those 364 items would cost a cool $72,608, up 9.5% from last year’s $66,344.

Sure, gold rings are on the rise, increasing a cool 27.5% year-over-year.  But the real inflation comes with the birds (what with the avian flu scare and all…).  While the partridge in a pear tree only increased 12.90%, the six geese-a-laying increased a whopping 42.90% (!!!).  My dearest husband, I won’t be getting you any geese this Christmas, sweetheart!

What was the priciest item on the list?  Well, it was close, but the nine ladies dancing edged out the swans-a-swimming.  I wonder what kind of dancing they were doing?  Hehheheheheehehehe!

Click on the link above and check out the itemized list - it’s pretty funny to think about!

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5 Comments
Beth said:

That is ILL!

No geese for Eric, but maybe a goose egg, huh? ;-P



Merri said:

Beth - if *you* want to give him a goose egg, you go right ahead. Hehehehehehehe



Breakfast 12-05-2005

Try one of these specials with your breakfast:

Orca (Respectful Insolence) looks at fighting cancer
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patd95 said:

Hilarious...I've always wondered how much all of this stuff would cost. I think the number is really low, especially since you can't buy people. Where would you house, clothes and feed them? Then, what about the animals? They have to be quartered, fed, tested for viruses, etc. The questions are endless. So I think this total price tag is quite conservative!



patd95 said:

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