“The 12 Days of Christmas” Cost . . .

PNC Bank does an annual study on how much it would cost, to buy everything from the song, “The 12 Days of Christmas”. The answer this year is $46,730, up 2.7% (or over $201,000, if you kept buying them over and over each day like the song suggests). A few notables this year . . . “Ten lords-a-leaping” cost $14,539. It’s the most expensive gift on the list, and is based on how much it would cost to hire ten dancers from the Philadelphia ballet. “Eight maids-a-milking” came out to $58 (a weird gift for sure, but the cheapest on the list). It breaks down to 8 women milking cows for an hour, at the federal minimum wage of $7.25. The price of the partridge in a pear tree stayed flat, but the tree it lives in grew by 15% . . . total cost: $319 (reflecting overall growth in housing costs?).