Throw in a partridge for $15. It turns out you shouldn’t try to match the spending spree from that old Christmas carol “12 Days of Christmas” because the total of all 364 gifts would come to a whopping $107,000.
Sound high? Mashable Breaks it down:
- Partridge, $15; last year: same
- Pear tree, $189.99; last year: 169.99
- Two turtle doves, $125; last year: same
- Three French hens, $165; last year: $150
- Four calling birds (canaries), $519.96; last year: same
- Five gold rings, $750; last year: $645
- Six geese a-laying, $210; last year: $162
- Seven swans a-swimming, $7,000; last year: $6,300
- Eight maids a-milking, $58; last year: same
- Nine ladies dancing (per performance), $6,294; last year: same
- 10 lords a-leaping (per performance), $4,767; last year: same
- 11 pipers piping (per performance), $2,562; last year: $2,428
- 12 drummers drumming (per performance), $2,776; last year: $2,630
We can only hope none of you had a christmas list like this because as far as we know black friday and cyber monday had no deals on pipers piping.
