2014 Cost Of ’12 Days Of Christmas’ Is Out And It’s Bogus. I’ll Prove It.

According to the 31st annual PNC Wealth Management Christmas Price Index the cost of everything in the “12 Days of Christmas” song saw little to no increase this year.

They say a set of gifts in each verse of the song would set you back $27,673 in stores. Thats an increase of less than $300 (or 1%) from last year to which I throw the "BullCrap Flag!"

That seemed excessively high to me, so I did the research and found out that you can get the whole list on the "12 Days of Christmas" a heck of a lot cheaper than PNC says.

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Here's what I came up with:

PNC WEALTH MANAGEMENT "12 Days Pricing":

• Partridge = $20
• Pear tree = $188
• 2 turtle doves = $125
• 3 French hens = $181
• 4 calling birds (canaries) = $600
• 5 gold rings = $750
• 6 geese-a-laying = $360
• 7 swans a-swimming = $7,000
• 8 maids a-milking = $58
• 9 ladies dancing (per performance) = $7,553
• 10 lords a-leaping (per performance) = $5,348
• 11 pipers piping (per performance) = $2,635
• 12 drummers drumming (per performance) = $2,855
• PNC TOTAL = $27,673.00

MY REALISTIC PRICING:

• Partridge = @ Purely Poltry.com = $2.78
• Pear tree,= @ Starkbros.com = $57.99
• 2 turtle doves = $50.00 pair @ zebrafinch.com = $50
• 3 French hens = $3.75 a piece if you buy 25 @ jmhatchery.com = $11.25
• 4 calling birds (canaries) = $50.00 ea. @ birdsnow.com = $200
• 5 gold rings = $76.00 ea. 14k @ overstock.com = $380
• 6 geese-a-laying = $25.00 ea. @ bestfarmbuys.com = $150
• 7 swans a-swimming = $900. ea. @ mallardlanefarms.com = $6300
• 8 maids a-milking = Where the heck do you hire these? PNC Cost = $58
• 9 ladies dancing (per performance) = $500 (and that's high end)
• 10 lords a-leaping (per performance) = $500 (and that's high end)
• 11 pipers piping (per performance) = $1,000 for local band.
• 12 drummers drumming (per performance) = $1,000 local drum core.
• MY TOTAL = $10,210.02

This is a difference of $17,462.98!  So, if you are some sort of stocker, kooky, inappropriate gift buyer you could save almost $20k using my shopping guide.  

MERRY CHRISTMAS!