Thursday Thirteen

12 days of Christmas

Okay Vinny! This is for you…a song. Now, how do I do this????? Well upon searching and searching and not finding “The Twelve Days of Christmas” YAY!!! Travis found it for me!!! Wooo!!!

Twelve Days Of Christmas
By Burl Ives
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I offer this video to take you back 30 years. David and Bing….a joining of generations. I remember watching this with my Dad.

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As a tongue-in-cheek economic indicator, each year economists will compute the cost for all the gifts mentioned in the song.
One Partridge in a Pear Tree: $104.99 ($15.00 Partridge, $89.99 Pear Tree)
• Two Turtle Doves: $40.00 ($20.00 each)
• Three French Hens: $45.00 ($15.00 each)
• Four Calling Birds: $399.96 ($99.99 each)
• Five Gold Rings: $325.00 ($65.00 each)
• Six Geese-a-Laying: $300.00 ($50.00 each)
• Seven Swans-a-Swimming: $4,200.00 ($600.00 each)
• Eight Maids-a-Milking: $41.20 ($5.15 each)
• Nine Ladies Dancing: $4,576.14 ($508.46 each)
• Ten Lords-a-Leaping: $4,039.08 ($403.91 each)
• Eleven Pipers Piping: $2,053.20 ($186.66 each)
• Twelve Drummers Drumming: $2,224.30 ($185.36 each)
Total Christmas Price Index: $18,348.87
"Core" index, excluding swans: $14,148.87
True cost of Christmas in song: $72,608.02 (including 364 total gifts) In 2006, the indexes — now in their 22nd year — reached their highest values ever. The "total" index rose to $18,920.59, or 3.1 percent above 2005, while the "true cost" index climbed 3.5 percent to $75,122.03. The "core" index added 4.0 percent to $14,720.59.[1]
If the gifts were entirely purchased online, the total cost escalates to $30,330.49 (3.4 percent higher than 2005), and the true cost reaches $125,767.32 (1.6 percent higher). Hmmmm……No, I have no idea where these figures came from or if the math is correct, just for FUN!
Oh my…this is Thursday Thirteen NOT Thursday Twelve!! Okay for the thirteenth thought how about this: Don’t go broke this Christmas! Offer things that don’t cost money. Offer your time. For the last several years of my Dad’s life all I offered him for Christmas was a calendar. This calendar became so very special to him because one day each month I wrote, “Julie’s coming to see you”. The year Dad passed away Mom asked me if she would get the calendar. How could I resist?
Hugs, Happiness and Harmony,
Julie L. Rose
snlrose@hotmail.com