Some festive, if quirky, expressions of true love hit a record this year.

The verses of the holiday classic “The 12 Days of Christmas” add up to 364 gifts, and if your true love bought them all, they would cost $107,300, a 6.1 percent increase compared with last year’s total. That is also more than double the giver’s bill of nearly $52,000 in 1995, the lowest annual total for the old-fashioned gifts and services.

The cost of the 12 days of cumulative gifts is calculated annually by PNC Wealth Management, part of the PNC Financial Services Group, to come up with an amusing and easily understandable explanation of how the country’s economy is faring.

Instead of sticking to the pedestrian items like food, gasoline and electricity that make up the federal Consumer Price Index, PNC tracks the cost of the carol’s more whimsical list, which ranges from a partridge to a group of leaping lords, to explain how prices affect the economy.

This year, the prices of the six geese, seven swans and other fowl rose because the country’s drought drove up the price of bird feed.