Lords-a-Leaping! 12 Days = $116,000+

The cost of six geese-a-laying spiked considerably this year, while eight maids-a-milking stayed the same, as did most of the items in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas, 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% - from last year. But internet shoppers would see a bump of about 8% over last year's internet prices - up to $42,959 online
• Buyers looking to buy all the items each time they were mentioned in the song (lunatics) - 364 that is - would spend $116,273, a modest 1.4% increase from a year ago
• 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 (underpaid). - 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

H/T to Victoria Jones at Talk Radio News Service