If you haven’t bought a gift for that special someone yet, you could try giving them the fabled Twelve Days of Christmas, but if you do the cost will run anywhere from $21,000 to $87,000 (depending on whether you repeat the gifts for each day or just buy them once).
For the last couple decades the company PNC Wealth Management has tracked the cost of the items, first as a learning tool for customers but these days it’s a media event of it’s own. Interestingly the Christmas Index has almost exactly matched the official Consumer Price Index used to track inflation.
So just in case you wanted to know….
Prices of items in the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” according to PNC Wealth Management:
Partridge, $20 (last year: $15)
Pear Tree, $200 (last year: $150)
Two Turtle Doves, $55 (last year: $40)
Three French Hens, $30 (last year: $45)
Four Calling Birds (canaries), $600 (last year: same)
Five Gold Rings, $350 (last year: $395)
Six Geese a-Laying, $240 (last year: $360)
Seven Swans a-Swimming, $5,600 (last year: $4,200)
Eight Maids a-Milking, $52 (last year: $47)
Nine Ladies Dancing (per performance), $4,759 (last year: same)
10 Lords a-Leaping (per performance), $4,414 (last year: $4,285)
11 Pipers Piping (per performance), $2,285 (last year: $2,213)
12 Drummers Drumming (per performance), $2,475 (last year: $2,398)