Saturday 24 December 2011

The Changing Cost Of Christmas


Unless you're one of the increasingly daring few, chances are you've bought all the Christmas gifts and food you're going to need by now. You might have found your current accounts, savings accounts or credit cards have taken a beating over the past couple of weeks, but there is data to suggest that some elements of Christmas have actually gotten cheaper over the last decade.

However, rising food prices and duty on alcohol does mean that filling the Christmas dinner table is costing us more than ever. Here's an infographic illustrating the changing cost of Christmas since 2001.

(thanks Danny)

1 comment(s):

Noumenon said...

The changing spending on Christmas, more like. It's all optional.