PHILADELPHIA - The cost of six geese-a-laying spiked considerably this year, while most of the items in the carol 'The Twelve Days of Christmas,' saw little to no increase, 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 percent - from last year. But shoppers turning to the Internet would see a bigger bump of about 8 percent over last year's Internet prices, bringing the set of gifts in each verse to $42,959 online. Buyers looking to purchase all the items each time they were mentioned in the song - 364 that is - would spend $116,273, a modest 1.4 percent increase from a year ago.
Here's a look at the full set of prices from PNC Wealth Management:
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 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
First published December 1 2014, 3:18 AM
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