While buying your true love all the gifts from the "12 Days of Christmas" carol certainly isn't practical -- they would end up with A LOT of birds -- it would also cost you thousands of dollars.

However, when factoring in repetition, the true cost of all 'The 12 Days of Christmas ... in which the price of "The 12 Days of Christmas" gifts shot up 10.5%, according to CNN and Forbes.

and all year round it’s not uncommon to hear someone add “… and a partridge in a pear tree!” to the end of a comically long list. What do the gifts in “The 12 Days of Christmas” represent?