The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Thursday, Debtember 22, 2022

It's kind of sad to think that the cheapest gift are the milk maids

It wasn't until I read this article from the Transylvania Times that I thought about the price of all the gifts from “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” It was also the first time I learned about The Christmas Price Index, where all this is tracked every year. This year's index, if you were to buy all the gifts mentioned in the song, comes to a staggering $197,071.09. And for all that, the 40 maids a-milking will only cost you $290. Not mentioned is the cleanup costs of all the gifts.

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