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  • 12 days of Christmas, cost

    True love’s Christmas gift tally: $66,334
    What items in ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ will set you back this year

    Forget the birds, trees, jewelry, laborers and performers. How about a new Jaguar, a BMW 7 Series, a Mercedes Benz, or a 1949 Rolex?

    The luxury cars and vintage watch would cost as much as all the gifts listed in the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” according to PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

    Each year, the Pittsburgh-based bank does a tongue-in-cheek tally of how much the drummers drumming, pipers piping, ladies dancing, turtle doves and golden rings would set you back if you bought them for your true love at today’s prices. The bank began publishing the list in 1982 for institutional clients and released it publicly the next year.

    This year, the price for all the gifts — if they were bought repeatedly on each day as the song suggests — hit $66,334, up from $65,264 last year.

    Buying each item just once would cost $17,279. That’s still enough for a Mini Cooper, a ride in a Russian MiG jet fighter, a 10-acre ranch in Colorado or a 1920s baseball signed by Babe Ruth.

    Blame it on outsourcing. This year, the nine ladies dancing would hit your wallet the hardest — coming in at $4,400 — while the eight maids-a-milking are a bargain at $41.20.

    “The abundance of cheaper labor in countries such as India and China has resulted in pressure on U.S. manufacturers to outsource unskilled labor,” said Jeff Kleintop, chief investment strategist for PNC Advisors. “As a result, the cost of skilled dancers has steadily increased, while the unskilled milkmaids haven’t managed an increase in pay for many years.”

    The prices for the birds — swans, geese, canaries (calling birds), hens, doves and partridges — didn’t change much from last year, coming in at $4,201 compared to $4,138, according to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens. But the dollar has been very weak — you would saved buying the three French hens last year when they were $15 compared to $45 this year.
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