Monday, November 29, 2010

$96,824

This is how much your True Love will have to spend this year to give you the Twelve Days of Christmas!


Read all about it HERE.



12 Drummers Drumming
11 Pipers Piping
10 Lords a Leaping
9 Ladies Dancing
8 Maids a milking
7 Swans a Swimming
6 Geese a Laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Colly Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree
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364 total gifts


The price of each item is set as follows:
-Pear tree comes from a local Philadelphia nursery
- Birds 1-3 are determined by the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden
- Bird#4 is priced at Petco
- Gordon Jewelers sets the cost of the Gold Rings
- Birds #6-7 are set by the National Aviary in Pittsburgh
- Maids are assumed to be unskilled laborers earning the Federal Minimum Wage (this being the ONLY cost to stay the same from 2009)
- Cost of Ladies Dancing is provided by the Philadelphia dance Company
- Lords a leaping are calculated by the Philadelphia Ballet
- Drummers and Pipers are set by the going rate of the Pennsylvania Musicians Union

I think I'd rather just have a snuggle with my True Love ;)

1 comment:

Deb said...

Me too, Abbey;-)