Imagine your true love waking up on Christmas morning to find a gift that won't fit under the Christmas tree. No, it's not a big-screen TV or a new car, because you instead decided to kick off the holiday by gifting your love a partridge in a pear tree. Forget whether you live in a climate that's hospitable to either -- you've purchased the bird and the tree with plans to follow them up over the next 11 days with a lot more birds, four more golden rings than most people want, and multiple live performances.
Of course, while most people know the song "The 12 Days of Christmas," it seems unlikely that anyone uses it as an actual gift list. Despite that, PNC Financial Services has been tracking the cost of the gifts in the song for the past 35 years. Let's take a look at where each item falls on PNC's "Christmas Price Index" (CPI) before breaking down how 2018 compares to last year.
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