"The 12 Days of Christmas" is an iconic Christmas song though honestly a terrible idea for gifts. Who on Earth needs all those birds?
If you were to purchase the gifts from "The 12 Days of Christmas" for somebody, be prepared to pay a pretty penny.
According to the PNC Christmas Index, purchasing everything from "The 12 Days of Christmas" would cost you $46,730, a 2.7% increase from last year. And that's just if you purchase every item once.
If you re-buy every gift every day as the song suggests, it would cost over $201,000!
The most expensive item on the list is the ten lords-a-leaping, costing $14,539, which is based on hiring ten dancers from the Philadelphia ballet.
The full breakdown of gifts is as follows:
-Twelve drummers drumming . . . $3,468
-Eleven pipers piping . . . $3,207
-Ten lords-a-leaping . . . $14,539
-Nine ladies dancing . . . $8,308 (Based on hiring nine women from a modern dance company in Philadelphia)
-Eight maids-a-milking . . . $58 (That's eight women milking cows for an hour at the federal minimum wage of $7.25)
-Seven swans-a-swimming . . . $13,125
-Six geese-a-laying . . . $780
-Five gold rings . . . $1,245. (That's for five 14-carat gold rings according to a national jewelry chain)
-Four calling birds . . . $600
-Three French hens . . . $330
-Two turtle doves . . . $750
-A partridge in a pear tree . . . $319
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