From Usa Today...
Study: '12 Days of Christmas' will cost you $78,100
Four calling birds, three french hens, two turtledoves and, um, $78,100: That's how much it would cost to buy the 364 gifts listed in The 12 Days of Christmas, according to PNC Wealth Management's Christmas Price Index.
That's up about 4% from last year, PNC reports. You could try to 'cheap out' and buy just one of each item (it seems like one swan a-swimming would be enough, for example), but that still would set you back $19,507, up 3.1 percent from last year's $18,921.
Shopping online makes things even worse: the 364 items would cost $128,886 online, up 2.5 percent from last year's $125,767, according to PNC.
"What's really surprising is that our index follows overall Consumer Price Index trends," Rebekah McCahan, a PNC senior vice president, says in a news release. "To think that the cost of a partridge in a pear tree would mirror what's going on at Target, for example, is pretty interesting."
