OK, so your true love is going to get you all the gifts for the
12 days of Christmas . . . guess what the most expensive item is!

Every year someone keeps an estimate of the 12 days of Christmas as
a tongue-in-cheek way of keeping track of inflation. As you might
guess the emphasis over the years has shifted from things to
services . . . well this is a service based economy, isn’t it?

There are two ways to look at this, cost of the category or the cost
for each individual piece.

If you go by categories, here are the top three . . .

9 Ladies dancing - - - $4,019.24
10 Lords-a-Leaping - - - $3,770.62
7 Swans-a-swimming - - - $3,50.00

But . . . if you go by the cost of each item . . . the swans win!

1 Swan - - - $500
1 Dancing Lady - - - $446.58
1 Leaping Lord - - - $377.06

What did you guess? I went for the gold . . . but I would never
have thought the swans cost that much!