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Lords-a-Leaping, Prices-a-Creeping: 2025’s Christmas Price Index Breakdown

Lords-a-Leaping, Prices-a-Creeping: 2025’s Christmas Price Index Breakdown

Dear Clients and Friends,

As 2025 wraps up (no pun intended), we wanted to share something comical for this year’s last Weekend Reading. For the past 42 years, PNC Bank has kept tabs on the cost of each of the gifts given in the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”

Spreading the holiday joy in 2025 cost 4.4% more compared to 2024. The main drivers of the increase were Five Gold Rings and a Partridge in a Pear Tree! See below for a whimsical chuckle.

The PNC Christmas Price Index

Happy Holidays from your MORWM Team!

Devin

*Disclaimer – The humorous title is courtesy of Gemini 3

Originally published Dec 23, 2025. This article reflects information available at that time.

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