Christmas Price Index skyrockets

It’s not just your imagination. Christmas really is getting more expensive – from swans-a-swimming to turtle doves to partridges in pear trees.

The annual CPI – Christmas Price Index – is up by a whopping 8.1 percent , according to PNC Financial Services. The firm has calculated the holiday index for 24 years by measuring the cost of the items in “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”