Ouch, I just got my credit card bill

Corbett | December 29, 2003 12:16 AM

When I gave my true love her gifts this year, I charged them, but I wasn't expecting this. This is highway robbery. It was an overall 18% increase in what I had to pay last year to keep my true love happy.

One Partridge In a Pear Tree: $77.50, down 24.4 percent from last year's $102.50.

Two Turtle Doves: $58, the same price as last year

Three French Hens: $15, the same price as last year

Four Calling Birds: $400, up 26.6 percent from last year's $316

Five Gold Rings: $361.25, down 5.6% from last year's 382.50

Six Geese-a-Laying: $150, the same price as last year

Seven Swans a-Swimming: $3,500, up 66.7 percent from last year's $2,100

Eight Maids-a-Milking: $41.20, the same price as last year

Nine Ladies Dancing: $4,230.89, up 3 percent from last year's $4107.66

Ten Lords-a-Leaping: $3,921.44, the same price as last year

Eleven Pipers Piping: $1,982.40, up 22.8 percent from last year's $1,614.60

Twelve Drummers Drumming: $2,147.60, up 22.8 percent from last year's $1,749.15

True cost of Christmas for my true love: $65,264.28, up 18 percent from last year's $54,951.31.

[Thanks to PNC Advisors]

[Did you know that "The 12 Days of Christmas" was a code song for Catholic symbolism after Henry VIII's ban of the Catholic faith in 1558? Cool. 16th century music hackers... ]

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