By Cathi Coppinger

Every year around this time, the people at PNC Wealth Management calculate how much it would cost to buy all the stuff from “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” The total this year is $34, 131 … that’s just 0.6 percent higher than last year. Only three of the 12 items had price jumps this year: A partridge in a pear tree is 3.5 percent more expensive … two turtle doves are up 11.5 percent … and ten lords-a-leaping will cost 3 percent more. Apparently demand for old jumping men has slightly gone up? The most expensive thing on the list is the seven swans-a-swimming. They’ll run $13,125 … or $1,875 per swan. For comparison’s sake, when PNC first calculated the prices in 1984, the entire list ran $12,674.