True love will need to have more money on-hand to fill stockings this holiday shopping season due to high-flying Geese prices and a tight labor market for Lords-a-Leaping, Pipers Piping and Drummers Drumming. The cost of this year’s Christmas Price Index (the cost of the twelve gifts from the classic carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas”) rose 1.2% to $39,094.93.
