“The Twelve Days of Christmas” will cost you 5.4% more this year, according to PNC’s Christmas Price Index.
This year’s report reveals that buying all the things listed in the song will cost $49,263 this year. The cost for each gift is:
- A Partridge in a Pear Tree - $370.18
- Two Turtle Doves -$750
- Three French Hens - $346.50
- Four Calling Birds - $599.96
- Five Gold Rings - $1,245
- Six Geese-A-Laying - $900
- Seven Swans-A-Swimming - $13,125
- Eight Maids-A-Milking - $58
- Nine Ladies Dancing - $8,557.37
- Ten Lords-A-Leaping - $15,579.65
- Eleven Pipers Piping - $3,714.96
- Twelve Drummers Drumming - $4,016.85
And while nearly $50-thousand sounds like a lot, buying all the items repeated over and over in the song will set you back quite a bit more. All the repetitions in the versus add up to 364 gifts with a grand total of $209,272.