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To: Tomato who wrote (8154)12/21/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.  Read Replies (1) of 62551
 
The price of giving all the items bestowed by the "true love"
> of the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" may be a little
> beyond most people's budget. The following costs were
> calculated for 1998, based upon a report issued in 1995 by
> PNC Bank Corp., assuming an annual rate of inflation of
> 2.5 percent:
>
> 1. Partridge in a pear tree $38
> 2. Turtle doves $54
> 3. French hens $16
> 4. Calling birds $302
> 5. Gold rings $485
> 6. Geese-a-laying $162
> 7. Swans-a-swimming $7,538
> 8. Maids-a-milking $37
> 9. Pipers piping $2,807
> 10. Ladies dancing $3,245
> 11. Lords-a-leaping $1,194
> 12. Drummers drumming $1,293
>
> Total to give gifts once: $17,170
> Total to give as in song*: $78,986
>
> * Singing the song in its entirety results in 364 presents:
> The partridge is given 12 times, two doves 11 times (22
> total), etc., etc., etc...
>
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