On the First Day of Christmas my True Love gave to me….
A Partridge in a Pear Tree:
True Love Spends:
Pear Tree: Around $20
Partridge: $15-20
Your cost:
To upkeep the pear tree: $390 a year
Bird maintenance: $200 to $400 a year
Two Turtle Doves:
True Love Spends:
$60 dollars a piece for $120 for the pair
Your cost:
Bird maintenance: $200 to $400 a year times 2
Three French Hens:
True Love Spends:
$50 dollars a piece for $150 for the three
Your cost:
Bird maintenance: $200 to $400 a year times 3
Four Calling Birds:
True Love Spends:
Around $125 dollars a piece for $500 for all four
Your cost:
Bird maintenance: $200 to $400 a year times 4
Five Golden Rings:
True Love Spends:
Prices could really vary, so we are going with $200 a piece for a $1000 total
Your cost:
Ring maintenance: with a package from a jewelry store, maybe a one time cost of $200
Six Geese a-Laying:
True Love Spends:
$30 dollars a piece for $180 for all six
Your cost:
Bird maintenance: $200 to $400 a year times 6, knock off maybe a $100 if you can sell the eggs
Seven Swans-a-Swimming:
True Love Spends:
$900 dollars a piece for $6300 for all seven
Your cost:
Bird maintenance: $200 to $400 a year times 7, knock off maybe a $500 if you can sell the eggs
Eight Maids-a-Milking:
True Love Spends:
$58 dollars per maid for the day, $150 to rent a cow for the week times 8 equals $4,448
Your cost:
To feed and house the cows and maids we are guessing around $2000 for the week
Nine Ladies Dancing:
True Love Spends:
About a $1000 a piece for $9000 total
Your cost:
You could get anyway with nothing to spend if they were only their for the day. Maybe some bottled water would be nice. $9
Ten Lords-a-Leaping:
True Love Spends:
About a $1000 a piece for $10,000 total
Your cost:
Same as the ladies, you could get anyway with nothing to spend if they were only their for the day. Maybe some bottled water. $10
Eleven Pipers Piping:
True Love Spends:
It seems Pipers are cheap. About 208 a piece. For eleven that’s: 2288
Your cost:
Tell them to get their own bottled water. Just joking. $11
Twelve Drummers Drumming:
True Love Spends:
Drummers cost slightly more than Pipers. $220 a piece for $2640
Your cost:
Go to Sam’s Club and buy a couple cases of water. $12
It will cost your True Love roughly $119,148 to send these gifts.
It will cost you roughly $10, 232 for the year in upkeep.
Geesh.
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