12 Days of Christmas in today's dollars
One partridge in a pear tree: $184.99 ($2,219.88)
Two turtle doves: $125.00 ($1,375.00)
Three French hens: $150.00 ($1,500.00)
Four calling birds: $519.96 ($4,679.64)
Five gold rings: $645.00 ($5,160.00)
Six geese-a-laying: $162.00 ($1,134.00)
Seven swans-a-swimming: $6,300.00 ($37,800.00)
Eight maids-a-milking: $58.00 ($290.00)
Nine ladies dancing: $6,294.03 ($25,176.12)
Ten lords-a-leaping: $4,766.70 ($14,300.10)
Eleven pipers piping: $2,427.60 ($4855.20)
Twelve drummers drumming: $2,629.90
Twelve drummers drumming: $2,629.90
(multiplies by the # of times it is sung)
One set total: $24,263.18
Full 365 gift set: $101,119.84
All I can say is, yikes!
This is only a 3.5% raise to $24,263.18 for 2011, following a huge leap in 2010 of 9.2% to $23,439.38. When the tradition began 28 years ago, the 365 gifts totaled only $12,673.56
While the cost of goods seemed to rise, labor, not surprisingly, remained fairly constant. 3 of the gifts that didn’t increase in price: 8 maids-a-milking, 9 ladies dancing and 10 lords-a-leaping – were related to employment. Musicians, however, pulled in a slightly higher price with boosts for both the 11 pipers piping and 12 drummers drumming.
Interesting, aye? Can you tell I'm a finance major? :)
One set total: $24,263.18
Full 365 gift set: $101,119.84
All I can say is, yikes!
This is only a 3.5% raise to $24,263.18 for 2011, following a huge leap in 2010 of 9.2% to $23,439.38. When the tradition began 28 years ago, the 365 gifts totaled only $12,673.56
While the cost of goods seemed to rise, labor, not surprisingly, remained fairly constant. 3 of the gifts that didn’t increase in price: 8 maids-a-milking, 9 ladies dancing and 10 lords-a-leaping – were related to employment. Musicians, however, pulled in a slightly higher price with boosts for both the 11 pipers piping and 12 drummers drumming.
Interesting, aye? Can you tell I'm a finance major? :)
12 comments:
wow!!! that is a lot of $$$$. interesting though!
LOL! That's some seriously expensive gift giving ;)
Haha. This is great! If anyone's thinking about doing this for me I should tell them to just give me the cash. :-)
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I was only going to stop in for a minute and say hi and try to add my blog to your coast to coast map...Friday the 21st I'll have a link to your coast to coast page...I have a real hodge podge blog I post from A to Z...But I notice your finance major and Saturday over at my blog one of my coffee pals is having a low spend de-clutter challenge for the month of Jan and I'll have links
Coffee is on.
Aha, ha, ha, ha! That is awesome.
xo
girlintheyellowdress.com
That is such a beautiful photo.
*I wanted to stop by and say hi! I co-hosted MMI yesterday with you..I am already a follower.
Hahaha- I love that you added prices to all these items.
I literally LOATHE that Christmas song....if that was my "true love" I might reconsider. Sounds like a high maintenance dude with a love for birds and pointless animals.
Kaylynn
colbkayandtrae.blogspot.com
Wow, I never knew it was so expensive!! Makes me wonder how anyone could afford twelve whole days of that kind of gift giving.
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Jean {What Jean Likes}
hello Shane, I saw you in one of the blogs i follow would love to nominate your inspiring blog for the versatile blogger award see it here http://sunnydaysarelove.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-first-blog-nomination.html
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Thanks!
-CHi
Whoa! That is craziness! At least it's only a 3.5% increase from last year instead of that huge 9.2% jump!
~Kim
LOVE this post!! Interesting and creative. And who knew how damn expensive that little diddy really is!
Very interesting! I never thought about that in dollar amounts :)
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