Price Increase for “12 Days of Christmas” List

Photo Courtesy – Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) — Ever wonder what it would cost to buy all the items listed in “The 12 Days of Christmas”? According to the annual PNC Christmas Price Index, true loves will have to shell out just under $100,000 to get all 364 items.

From the 12 drummers drumming to the partridge in a pear tree, if one were to purchase these items in 2010, it would cost $96,824. This figure represents an increase of approximately 10 percent compared to the price one would have paid for all of the items on the list last year.

According to the PNC CPI, the very first item listed in the song, a partridge in a pear tree, costs $161, a 1.3-percent increase from last year.

Moving along the list, two turtle doves cost $100, up 78.6 percent from 2009, and three French hens now cost $150, up 233 percent from last year. Bird prices seem to be on the rise across the board, as the seven swans-a-swimming cost $5,600, an increase of 6.7 percent from last year.

As for performers on the list, the 11 pipers piping cost $2,356, and those 12 drummers drumming are doing so at a cost of $2,552. Both prices represent a modest increase of 3.1 percent.

There are four gifts on the list that remained the same price as last year: the pear tree by itself, four calling birds, six geese a-laying, and the eight maids-a-milking.

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