The Twelve Days of Christmas

[VNMUS]

PNC Wealth Management, which every year calculates the cost of all the gifts mentioned in "The 12 Days of Christmas," reports that the 2006 price rose 3.1 percent to a record $18,920, or $30,330 if you bought all the items off the Internet. If you bought the gifts for all of the 12 days mentioned, it would total $75,122. The cheapest is the partridge, holding steady at $15, but a boom in landscaping boosted pear tree prices by 40 percent. For the first time in years, labor costs outpaced inflation, so hiring nine dancers cost 4 percent more than in 2005. But the eight maids a-milking remained unchanged thanks to no rise in the minimum wage.

[Bluerauder]

PNC Wealth Management, which every year calculates the cost of all the gifts mentioned in "The 12 Days of Christmas," reports that the 2006 price rose 3.1 percent to a record $18,920, or $30,330 if you bought all the items off the Internet. If you bought the gifts for all of the 12 days mentioned, it would total $75,122. The cheapest is the partridge, holding steady at $15, but a boom in landscaping boosted pear tree prices by 40 percent. For the first time in years, labor costs outpaced inflation, so hiring nine dancers cost 4 percent more than in 2005. But the eight maids a-milking remained unchanged thanks to no rise in the minimum wage.

I have hated that song for the better part of 40 years. Little did I know that it has been around for about 500 years. :rolleyes:

"The date of the song's first performance is not known, though it was used in European and Scandinavian traditions as early as the 16th century."

The costs that you mention include a total of 364 gifts because each verse always includes the "stuff" from before.


Nine Ladies Dancing: $4,576.14 ($508.46 each) Now what kinda dance to you get for $508.46?? :eek: :nono: :rofl:

[Agent M79]

Now what kinda dance to you get for $508.46?? :eek: :nono: :rofl:

Heh. That's the 'all day' rate.

[STLR FN]

snip...Now what kinda dance to you get for $508.46?? :eek: :nono: :rofl:


Heh. That's the 'all day' rate.Wonder if it includes any extras???:eek:

[Agent M79]

Wonder if it includes any extras???:eek:

Oh my yes... That would include <snip by admin> and then <snip by admin> and usually a rousing <snip by admin> all of which should leave you happy and dehydrated.