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I was thinking about the song "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" and a humorous article I read a long time which shows the results of receiving all of those gifts. It ends with (among other things) the recipient's home being destroyed due to crowding.
Thinking about it, I realized that if you take the song as written then the amount of items the recipient receives is even more massive. The recipient doesn't receive just one partridge in a pear tree but 12 (one for each day), 22 turtle doves, 30 french hens, and so on. In terms of birds alone you end up with 184 birds. Plus, you get even more crowding considering that the maids-a-milking means that you also get cows to go with them, and swans-a-swimming means that you need a pond for each swan to swim in (42 in total), plus dancing/leaping room for the dancing ladies and the leaping lords. Plus, what if the drummers are like John Bonham (who I've heard is a very heavy drummer), wouldn't you need ear defenders to handle the sound of 12 massively heavy drummers? Unfortunately, the value of the golden rings (40 of them) will be unlikely to defray the costs.
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