Holiday sales are    up… but we’re not because we’re buying more stuff.  We’re spending more on Christmas because of inflation.  And nowhere do you find more proof… than with the CPI.

Don’t roll your eyes.  The CPI is the Christmas Price Index… which totals up the value of all the gifts in the 12 days of christmas…. and compares them to last year.  Buckle in.

$280 dollars. Partridge prices are the same as last year.  The pear tree way more expensive because of higher fertilizer costsl.

Two Turtle Doves - 600.  Feed prices are skyrocketing.  Same deal for the French Hens.  The price of four calling birds remains unchanged this year.  A rare bargain.

Jewerly buyers?

Gold prices were up 40 percent… so set aside 1245 dollars.  Now I problem with the day eight.

Maids a milking are calculated at minimum wage… which hasn’t changed.  But come on nobody makes minimum wage $725 an hour?  Get outa here.  4 of the maids would quit.  3 of em would go work for Amazon.  The other'd make  17  at McDonalds.  Onwoard…. to this…

12 drummers

Starving musicians.  After the pandemic … they’re greatful to perform again…. so the drummers drumming  are only up 2-poin6- percent… at about 3-thousand dollars.  likewise the pipers piping… and when you add them all up.  The price tag for the 12 days is $45,500.  Up 10-and-a-half percent from last Christmas.

Now if you were the romantic type who’d buy all 12… would you skip a couple to save money?  Course not.  The first thing your true love would say is …where’s the nine ladies dancing…where’s the partridge in a pear tree  And that is why we’re all spending more… to get the same amount of stuff for Christmas.