According to the PNC Financial Services "The Christmas Price Index", buying all the presents in "The 12 Days of Christmas" song will cost nearly 400 dollars more than last year.
(The reason is the price of gold rings and French hens are up sharply. The total price tag would be $21,465.56 this year.)
26 Dec 2009
25 Dec 2009
Interesting Fact # 1221 - Christmas Fact - A Typical Christmas Day
Happy Christmas!
According to research by, of all things, Jarlsberg cheese company, a typical Christmas Day in the UK runs like clockwork. By 9.00 the presents have all been unwrapped, and the first (alcoholic) drink is drunk at 11.48, dinner follows at 3.24 (after the Queen's speech) then 8 hours later everyone is in bed.
(As a child I experienced a slightly different Christmas. We were always woken up by "Oh come all ye faithful" played on the radio, then we were allowed to unwrap Santa's presents, but we had to wait until after we had eaten dinner and the washing up had been done to open the other presents. My mother wasn't stupid. It guaranteed good behaviour for most of the day.)
According to research by, of all things, Jarlsberg cheese company, a typical Christmas Day in the UK runs like clockwork. By 9.00 the presents have all been unwrapped, and the first (alcoholic) drink is drunk at 11.48, dinner follows at 3.24 (after the Queen's speech) then 8 hours later everyone is in bed.
(As a child I experienced a slightly different Christmas. We were always woken up by "Oh come all ye faithful" played on the radio, then we were allowed to unwrap Santa's presents, but we had to wait until after we had eaten dinner and the washing up had been done to open the other presents. My mother wasn't stupid. It guaranteed good behaviour for most of the day.)
24 Dec 2009
Interesting Fact # 1220 - Christmas Fact - The Christmas Row
A typical British family has its first festive row at precisely 9.58 on Christmas morning.
(The presents have been unwrapped, overexcited children row with their parents, who are trying to tidy up the discarded wrapping and packaging material before rushing round trying to shove an oversized turkey into the oven. Arguments start about what to watch on TV and the average parent ends up losing it, and telling off their children for the first time by 11.07am.)
(The presents have been unwrapped, overexcited children row with their parents, who are trying to tidy up the discarded wrapping and packaging material before rushing round trying to shove an oversized turkey into the oven. Arguments start about what to watch on TV and the average parent ends up losing it, and telling off their children for the first time by 11.07am.)
23 Dec 2009
Interesting Fact #1219 - Christmas Fact - Christmas Turkey
According to the Recycling Consortium, nearly 3,000,000 kg of aluminium foil will be used to wrap Christmas turkeys.
(A Peugeot 307 only contains 75 kg of aluminium.)
(A Peugeot 307 only contains 75 kg of aluminium.)
22 Dec 2009
Interesting Fact #1218 - Christmas Fact - Aluminium
According to the Recycling Consortium the UK will get through an extra 500 million aluminium drinks cans over the festive period.
(Add that to the next interesting fact! That's a lot of alu.)
(Add that to the next interesting fact! That's a lot of alu.)
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