How Much Would the 12 Days of Christmas Cost Today?
It'll take more than $100,000 to buy gifts for your true love this year
The cost of the 12 Days of Christmas in the classic holiday song is $24,263 this year, up a modest $823 from last year, according to PNC Wealth Management. Blame some of the increase on those seven swans a-swimming -- their price tag jumped from $5,600 in 2010 to $6,300 this year. PNC puts out the whimsical Christmas Price Index® every year, tallying the cost of all the items in The 12 Days of Christmas. The results of the 28th annual survey can be found at www.pncchristmaspriceindex.com. Now, if someone wanted to buy his or her True Love all 364 gifts on the list -- all 12 Drummers Drumming, three French Hens and the rest -- it would cost a whopping $101,120, a 4.4 percent increase from last year. As the only unskilled laborers, the …
