Twelve Days of Christmas

Consider this before seeking out that classic gift:

It’s getting more costly to buy your true love all the items mentioned in the carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”

It would cost $78,100 to buy the 364 items, from a single partridge in a pear tree to the 12 drummers drumming, repeatedly on each day as the song suggests, according to the annual PNC Christmas Price Index compiled by PNC Wealth Management. PNC calculates the “CPI” each year as a fun, lighthearted way to look at the increasing cost of goods and services bought by the True Love in the holiday classic, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” It all started 23 years ago as a way to engage clients and has since grown into one of PNC’s most popular and anticipated economic reports:

The PNC Christmas Price Index
The cost is up 4% from $75,122 last year.

Buying each item in the song just once would cost $19,507, up 3.1% from last year’s $18,921.

And shopping online would be costlier, with the total for the 364 items costing $128,886, up 2.5% from last year’s $125,767.

You would spend $31,249 online for each item just once this year.

The breakdown, according to PNC Wealth Management, looks like this:

• Partridge, $15 (last year: same)

• Pear Tree, $150 (last year: $130)

• Two Turtle Doves, $40 (last year: same)

• Three French Hens, $45 (last year: same)

• Four Calling Birds (canaries), $600 (last year: $480)

• Five Gold Rings, $395 (last year: $325)

• Six Geese a-Laying, $360 (last year: $300)

• Seven Swans a-Swimming, $4,200 (last year: same)

• Eight Maids a-Milking, $47 (last year: $41)

• Nine Ladies Dancing (per performance), $4,759 (last year: same)

• 10 Lords a-Leaping (per performance), $4,285 (last year: $4,160)

• 11 Pipers Piping (per performance), $2,213 (last year: $2,124)

• 12 Drummers Drumming (per performance), $2,398 (last year: $2,301)

Interactive Stock Charts:

PNC — The True Cost of the 12 Days of Christmas...

Cool Chart that allows you to click on the menu (in the upper right corner of the chart)to view the data associated with each item from the song — "The 12 Days of Christmas." You simply Place your cursor over the small boxes on the line graph to see the specific price of the item for each year.

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