(MONEY Magazine) – $540 Amount it cost to heat the average home in the Midwest last winter

$834 Average amount it will cost to heat a home in the Midwest this winter because of rising natural gas prices

$15 Price of a permit to cut a cord of wood--128 cubic feet--in selected New Jersey state forests and parks. The new measure was introduced in October in response to rising heating costs.

$135 Average price of a cord of chopped wood

$7,500 Price of a mink sweater from J. Mendel, a New York City furrier

$41,000 Cost of damages to an Indianapolis house from a November fire caused by a space heater. In 1997, fires attributed to space heaters killed 104 Americans.

$52.22 Price of the critically acclaimed four-CD boxed set of Louis Armstrong's Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings, originally made in the 1920s, at Amazon.com.

--SRIDHAR PAPPU