Luxury gifts for her under $100 Now you know that the song was never intended to be a serious portrayal of holiday gifts. But it’s still fun to speculate about what it would actually be like to give and receive those unique gifts—and the PNC Christmas Price Index provides a cost estimate every year. They account for everything from wages for the maids a-milking to the weirdly high cost of seven swans, the most expensive item.
In 2020, they even accounted for COVID, with price hikes for the gold rings—and, grimly for the art world (and the gift recipient!) but happily for the purchaser, a cost of $0 for all the musicians and dancers, to account for the cancellations of live performances. Man, we can’t even suspend our disbelief in a hypothetical scenario about a wacky Luxury gifts for her under $100 song!
And how much would those gifts set you back? In 2021, if you wanted to stay true to the song and get your “true love” each day’s gifts the number of times they’re mentioned in the song, that was 364 gifts, for a whopping $179,454.19!
Daly’s main takeaway? “I’d rather take a trip around the world for two, for the price of [just] the swans!” he says. You could also get everything on this list of inexpensive Christmas gifts, or just plan a Christmas movie date night!
Additional reporting by Jen McCaffery.
Sources:
- Ed Daly, author of The Christmas Book: The Ultimate Guide to Your Favorite Holiday
- How Stuff Works: “What Are the 12 Days of Christmas?”
- Slate: “Merry (Russian Orthodox) Christmas!”
- The BBC: “Epiphany”
- Vox: “The 12 Days of Christmas: The story behind the holiday’s most annoying carol”
- Snopes: “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
- Good Housekeeping: “The True Meaning Behind the ’12 Days of Christmas’ Song Lyrics, Explained”
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