The Twelve Days of Christmas is Quite Expensive

Every year "they" tally up all of the items in the "Twelve Days of Christmas" song, check over their retail value, compare them to last year, add everything up, and and give us a total.  A few of the items are up quite a bit from last year, including three French hens and the ever popular partridge in a pear tree. If you wanted to buy everything, it would cost $27,673.  That's just a little more than last year, but still... seriously?

So check this list out.

A partridge in a pear tree, $207.68 . . . up 3.8% from last year

Two turtle doves, $125 . . . same price.

Three French hens, $181.50 . . . up 10%.

Four calling birds, $599.96 . . . same price.

Five golden rings, $750 . . . same price.

Six geese-a-laying, $360 . . . up 71.4%.

Seven swans-a-swimming, $7,000 . . . same price.

Eight maids-a-milking, $58 . . . same price.

Nine ladies dancing, $7,552.84 . . . same price.

Ten lords-a-leaping, $5,348.24 . . . up 2%.

Eleven pipers piping, $2,635.20 . . . same price.

Twelve drummers drumming, $2,854.80 . . . same price.