How Much The Gifts from “The 12 Days of Christmas” Would Cost This Year
We’re 12 days from Christmas, so how much would “The 12 Days of Christmas” cost this year? PNC Bank does an annual study that estimates the cost, and recently posted the results (find it HERE). The answer is $45,523, up 10.5% from last year. Or if you kept buying them over and over each day like the song suggests, it would cost over $197,000! This year the most expensive thing on the list was the “Ten lords-a-leaping” . . . $13,980 (based on how much it would cost to hire ten dancers from the Philadelphia ballet). The least expensive was “Eight maids-a-milking” . . . $58. Weird gift, that’s eight women milking cows for an hour at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 (and you don’t get to keep the milk, you just watch . . . seems a little pervy). And a Christmas F.Y.I. – the 12 days of Christmas or “Twelvetide” are December 25th through January 5th (now you know).
