You would need just over $34,000 to purchase all the gifts mentioned in the ’12 Days of Christmas’ carol this year.
Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group releases the price index each year as a slightly different way of tracking inflation. They have tracked the price of the gifts for the past 33 years.
The overall cost increased by $233 this year for a total of $34,363.
The price of two turtle doves jumped from $290 to $375 this year, but nine of the other 12 gifts listed in the carol stayed the same price or became cheaper, according to PNC.
The full set of prices for purchasing the gifts from a bricks-and-mortar business, not online, is:
– Partridge, $20; last year: $25
– Pear tree, $190; last year: same
– Two turtle doves, $375; last year: $290
– Three French hens, $182; last year: same
– Four calling birds (canaries), $600; last year: same
– Five gold rings, $750; last year: same
– Six geese-a-laying, $360; last year: same
– Seven swans a-swimming, $13,125; last year: same
– Eight maids a-milking, $58; last year: same
– Nine ladies dancing (per performance), $7,553; last year: same
– 10 lords a-leaping (per performance), $5,509; last year: same
– 11 pipers piping (per performance), $2,708; last year: $2,635
– 12 drummers drumming (per performance), $2,934; last year: $2,855
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