If you got everything listed in the carol "The 12 Days of Christmas", here is what you would end up with:
12 partridges (in either one or 12 trees!)
22 turtledoves
30 French hens
36 calling birds
40 golden rings
42 geese a-laying (and, at some point, all those goose eggs!)
42 swans a-swimming
40 maids a-milking (it's not even legal to give people as gifts; it never was ethical, even when legal!)
36 ladies dancing
30 lords a-leaping
22 pipers piping (oh, the noise if they're all bagpipers!
12 drummers drumming (add this to the pipers and, oh, what noise on Day 12!)
[There are formulae for figuring total numbers of gifts, also.]
You will need to sell the golden rings to clean up the bird mess!
*The 12 Days of Christmas are NOT before Christmas, as a lead-up to them. Rather, they go from December 25th to Twelfth Night, January 5th. The next day, January 6th, is Epiphany, commemorating the coming of the Wise Men (before it commemorated the coming of other people to Washington, D.C. in 2021 😒). [You can find several accounts on-line about how it was supposedly a way to secretly communicate Roman Catholic doctrines during Tudor Anglican times.]
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