Twelve days of Christmas can be awfully pricey.

While doing my normal morning news roundup, I found this article about what the gifts outlined in the Twelve Days of Christmas would cost if purchased today. First of all, who has the time to come up with this, and who really cares? Apparently I do.


The cost of buying each of the items once would be $19,507, but if you bought them repeatedly like the song suggests, it would add it up $78,100 for all 364 items. I never really noticed it before, but this song has a strange fascination with birds. You'd end up with 184 various birds by the time it was all said and done. And 100 assorted drummers, leapers, dancers and pipers to throw quite a party. I wonder how they'd mix with the birds.