The total cost of everything has gone up 03.5%. Have you noticed the difference during you holiday shopping?

Question

12 Drummers
11 Pipers
10 Leaping Lords
9 Dancing Ladies
8 Milking Maids
7 Swans
6 Laying Geese
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
Partridge/Pear Tree

PITTSBURGH (Nov. 27) - The cost of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is on the rise - again.

Buying each item in the song just once - from a partridge in a pear tree to a dozen drummers drumming - will cost you $18,920, or 3.1 percent more than last year, according to PNC Financial Services Group.

The total cost of items gifted by a True Love who repeats all of the song's verses costs more than ever before - $75,122 - for all 364 items, up from $72,608 in 2005, a 3.5 percent increase.

Trying to find cheaper deals online won't help, either. The 364 items online would cost $125,767, including shipping costs, compared to $123,846 last year. You would spend $30,330 online for each item just once this year.

Affecting your holiday shopping?

Answer 1

Nay, I'm not effected by it. I just shop on saved money, draw up two cards, and ask for old books and reprints off abebooks or some other site. I don't know where one is getting $30,000 free money for the whole family to spend on anything a year. That's enough to pay for the college tuition of five students a year in Pensacola Christian College.

I don't have my true love yet, so he's not hurt by anything. How much does a dancing lady cost anyway?