The 12 Days of Christmas, in Cash!
Christmas Entertainment
Christmas Around the World
A different look at Christmas Songs
The Host of Christmas Past
200
The most expensive of the 12 days was hiring 10 of THESE jumpin' dudes, which set you back $15,580
10 lords a-leaping
200
In a classic holiday pop song, it's what "I saw mommy" doing "underneath the mistletoe last night"
kissing Santa Claus
200
In Sweden, a Christmas straw ONE OF THESE is traditional; here's the 42-foot, 4-ton example in Gävle
a goat
200
HE's "the most famous reindeer of all", but he's bullied horribly & only loved after bailing everyone out on Christmas Eve
Rudolph
200
Elvis Costello, Toby Keith & old pal Jon Stewart were part of THIS catholic late night host's “Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!"
Stephen Colbert
400
$750 got you a pair of THESE; the wood pigeon is a relative but doesn't sound as cool when you sing the name
2 turtle doves
400
In 2007, HIS “Noel" became the first Christmas album since Kenny G's "Miracles" to top the Billboard 200
Josh Groban
400
In Iceland, kids put their boots by a window & either get candy if they're good or a rotten one of THESE tubers if not
potatoes
400
THIS title daredevil lives to the max! Though the Sun can kill him, he sings, "Let's run & we'll have some fun now before I melt away"
Frosty the Snowman
400
17-year-old Liza Minnelli performed in the 1963 “Christmas Show" of THIS woman, her mom
Judy Garland
600
OK, each one of THESE was $115 & change, & you needed 3, so your total came out to $346
3 French hens
600
A perennial hit originally from THIS duo! says, "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away"
Wham!
600
Streets are closed to traffic as people roller skate to Christmas Eve mass in THIS capital of Venezuela
Caracas
600
"Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)" is by THIS "Take Me Home, Country Roads" singer
John Denver
600
A very 1999 special had Rosie O'Donnell enjoying Savage Garden & THIS Bass/Fatone/Kirkpatrick/Chasez/some other less famous guy boy band
NSYNC
800
So! many! birds in the song! & for $13,125, the 7 of THESE should have been able to do the butterfly at an Olympic level!
7 swans a-swimming
800
In "A Christmas Story: The Musical", Ralphie sings, "What you really need to be a cowboy... is" THIS "carbine action BB gun"
Red Ryder
800
Japan keeps the holidays "extra crispy" with what has become a traditional Christmas meal from THIS chain
KFC
800
You don't think of Christmas tunes as black market body part movers, but "All I Want For Christmas Is” THIS pair of choppers
my two front teeth
800
Dan Levy narrated THIS singer's 2019 “Christmas Show" that coincidentally had songs from her album "A Very Kacey Christmas”
Kacey Musgraves
1000
THIS 11-piece band charged $3,715 for the gig, but that was cost-effective, as you got a group to back you for the tune
11 pipers piping
1000
Voicing the conductor in THIS FILM, Tom Hanks says "Sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see"
The Polar Express
1000
North of Quezon City, San Fernando is the “Christmas Capital of" THIS nation, holding a Giant Lantern Festival in December
the Philippines
1000
A police report would later reveal THIS title relative "had hoof prints on her forehead & incriminating Claus marks on her back"
Grandma
1000
In "A Very Murray Christmas”, Bill re-teamed up with David Johansen, a co-star as the Ghost of Christmas Past in THIS 1988 comedy
Scrooged