Those looking to obtain the lengthy list of items in "The 12 Days of Christmas" carol will have to shell out more than $27,000 — an estimated $116K if you purchase the whole list each time it's mentioned in the song.
According to the 31st annual PNC Wealth Management Christmas Price Index, a set of gifts in each verse of the song would set you back $27,673 in stores, an increase of less than $300 — or 1 percent — from last year, The Associated Press reported.
But shoppers turning to the Internet would see a bigger bump of about 8 percent over last year's online prices, bringing the set of gifts in each verse to $42,959. Buyers looking to purchase all the items each time they were mentioned in the song — 364 that is — would spend $116,273, a modest 1.4 percent increase from a year ago.
PNC's sources for the Christmas Price Index include retailers, the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia-based PHILADANCO and the Pennsylvania Ballet Company.
Here is a look at the full set of prices from PNC Wealth Management:
- Partridge, $20; last year: $15
- Pear tree, $188; last year: $184
- Two turtle doves, $125; last year: same
- Three French hens, $181; last year: $165
- Four calling birds (canaries), $600; last year: same
- Five gold rings, $750; last year: same
- Six geese-a-laying, $360; last year: $210
- Seven swans a-swimming, $7,000; 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), $5,348; last year: $5,243
- 11 pipers piping (per performance), $2,635; last year: same
- 12 drummers drumming (per performance), $2,855; last year: same
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