In the song "The 12 Days of Christmas" there are a lot of gifts mentioned, and did you ever consider how much all of that stuff would cost? The PNC Christmas Price Index has been crunching the numbers for the last 36 years, and says this year all those gifts will cost just 0.2% more than they did in 2018. They calculated the total cost of all the items mentioned in the song will come out to $38,993.59, or $67.56 more than last year. This year, the cost of two turtle doves dropped 20 percent (the first drop in price since 2004), the price of five golden rings increases 10 percent, and for the second year in a row the cost of geese (six geese-a-laying) increased nearly eight percent.
(PNC Financial Services Group, Inc./ PR Newswire)