'12 Days of Christmas' Price Tag Grows

The economy has decided not to take a break this holiday season, according to PNC Wealth Management economists who have found that the price for gifts rose this year—especially if your true love has asked Santa for a partridge in a pear tree.

Each year PNC calculates the price tag for all gifts listed in the holiday song, "The 12 Days of Christmas." That's right, all the way down to the drummers drumming.

This year, if any Palos Verdes resident, naughty or nice, wants all of the gifts in the song, it would add up to $24,263.18—which is higher than last year's calculated $23,439.

If your true love repeats the verses in the carol, giving the gifts again and again on each of the 12 days, the bill would add up to $101,119.84—which is higher than last year's calculated $96,824.

Here is this year's cost breakdown:

• Partridge in a pear tree—$184.99
• Two turtledoves—$125
• Three French hens—$150
• Four calling birds—$519.96
• Five golden rings—$645
• Six geese "a-laying"—$162
• Seven swans swimming—$6,300
• Eight Maids-a-milking—$58
• Nine ladies dancing—$6,294.03
• Ten Lords-a-leaping—$4,766.70
• Eleven pipers piping—$2,427.60
• Twelve drummers druming—$2,629.90