What Does The 12 Days of Christmas List Cost This Year?

PNC Financial Services is out with it's Christmas Price Index, the tabulation on what the final price tag would be on all the gifts mentioned in the famous tune "Twelve Days of Christmas"

Your true love would have to spend an all-time high $49,263 on this year's list of gifts.

Giving your true love every item from "The Twelve Days of Christmas" will cost you 5.4% more this year. That's more than double last year's 2.7% increase and the annual inflation rate of 2.6% recently reported by USA TODAY in the October consumer price index.

The 12 presents gifted in the last verse of the well-known Christmas carol would cost $49,263 in 2024.   The 40th annual PNC Christmas Price Index calculates that's a $2,533 increase from 2023's total.

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And for the purists who argue the real cost should include every time an item is mentioned or 364 times!  That works out to $209, 272.66 this year, surpassing $200K for a second consecutive year.  But who needs more than eight maids a milking? Right?

Shoppers completing their !2 Days of Christmas List will take the biggest hit on a partridge in a pear tree, up 16%%  The six geese a-laying were also up 15.4%.

The pipers piping and drummers drumming had the second-highest increase at 15.8% each.  

The five items with no price change included two turtle doves, four calling birds, five golden rings, seven swans a-swimming and eight maids a-milking.

PNC's Christmas Price Index is a 40 year holiday tradition based on the Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.