PNC Bank does an annual study to find out how it would cost to purchase everything from ‘The 12 Days of Christmas.’  This year, it would cost $45,523, which is a 10.5% increase.  However, if you bought the items over and over each day like the song suggests, that’s over $197,000 and a total of 364 gifts.

 

 

 

 

Here’s a breakdown:

 

 

  • Twelve drummers drumming . . . $3,267 to hire them.

 

  • Eleven pipers piping . . . $3,021.

 

  • Ten lords-a-leaping . . . $13,980.  It’s the most expensive gift on the list.  

 

  • Nine ladies dancing . . . $8,308.  Based on hiring nine women from a modern dance company in Philly.  

 

  • Eight maids-a-milking . . . $58.

 

  • Seven swans-a-swimming . . . $13,125.

 

  • Six geese-a-laying . . . $720.

 

  • Five gold rings . . . $1,245, up 39%.  It’s for five 14-carat gold rings according to a national jewelry chain.

 

  • Four calling birds . . . $600.

 

  • Three French hens . . . $319.

 

  • Two turtle doves . . . $600.

 

  • And a partridge in a pear tree . . . $280.  The partridge costs the same as last year.  But fertilizer prices are up, so pear trees have jumped 26%. 
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