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How much would the gifts of the 12 Days of Christmas cost today?


According to PNC Bank, the answer this year is $45,523, up 10.5% from 2021.  If you were to buy the items over and over each day like the song suggests, that’s 364 total gifts, and over $197,000.
Here’s a breakdown of how much it would cost to buy or hire all 12 things

  • Twelve drummers drumming, $3,267 to hire them.
  • Eleven pipers piping , $3,021.
  • Ten lords-a-leaping, $13,980.  It’s the most expensive gift on the list.  It’s based on how much it would cost to hire ten dancers from the Philadelphia ballet.
  • Nine ladies dancing , $8,308.  Based on hiring nine women from a modern dance company in Philly.
  • Eight maids-a-milking, $58.  Weird gift, but the cheapest on the list.  That’s eight women milking cows for an hour at the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
  • Seven swans-a-swimming, $13,125.
  • Six geese-a-laying, $720.
  • Five gold rings, $1,245, up 39%.  That’s a bigger jump than anything else on the list.  It’s for five 14-carat gold rings according to a national jewelry chain.
  • Four calling birds, $600.
  • Three French hens, $319.
  • Two turtle doves, $600.
  • And a partridge in a pear tree, $280.  The partridge costs the same as last year.  But fertilizer prices are up, so pear trees have jumped 26%.

 

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