We have all grown up singing the carol The 12 days of Christmas , and wondering what on earth someone would do with all those partridges in a pear tree.

According to the annual PNC Christmas Price Index, it would cost $78,100 to buy the 364 items, from a single partridge in a pear tree to the 12 drummers drumming, repeatedly on each day as the song suggests. PNC has been calculating the cost of Christmas since 1984.

The bad news is that it will cost you 4% more this year than last year for your true love to buy all the items. The good news is that if you are a maid-a-milkin’, you likely saw a wage increase this past year.

For that amount of money, I would hope not to see lords a leapin’ under my tree.

I forwarded the story on to my husband with a note that said, FYI a gift idea. Then I wrote, if you were planning on doing this “romantic gesture” I want to let you know that in lieu of it I will take brand new shiny vehicle with a big red bow parked in the driveway. Or cash. Cash is always good.

Though I will miss my husband, because surely he would have to rob a bank to get that kind of money.