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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The price of pear trees is up - but the partridge is a bargain. This year’s 12 days of Christmas gift totals...



If you’re considering buying your true love all of those 12 days of Christmas gifts – it will cost you more this year...

Those 364 items are up 6.1 percent from last year. PNC Wealth Management has the 2012 price tags:



• Partridge, $15; the same as last year. 

• Pear tree, $189.99; up $20 from last year.

• Two turtle doves, $125; no change there.

• Three French hens, $165; $15 more than last year.

• Four calling birds (canaries), $519.96; last year: same.

• Five gold rings, $750; the price of that gold is up $105 from last year.

• Six geese a-laying, $210; last year: $162.

• Seven swans a-swimming, $7,000; last year, they were just $6,300.

• Eight maids a-milking, a mere $58, the same as last year.

• Nine ladies dancing (per performance), $6,294; last year: same.

• 10 lords a-leaping (per performance), $4,767; no more than last year.

• 11 pipers piping (per performance), $2,562; up from $2,428.

• 12 drummers drumming (per performance), $2,776; last year: $2,630.

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