Christmas Budget Spreadsheet, Christmas Gift List, Holiday Budget, Gift Tracker, Google Sheets and Excel

A Christmas budget planner spreadsheet: set your budget, track the gift list, plan the Christmas Day menu and cards, and watch a countdown dashboard. Any currency.

WHAT'S INSIDE (8 TABS)
• Dashboard: days to Christmas, 6 KPI cards, 4 progress bars, 4 charts
• Start Here: setup steps, colour key, how to clear
• Setup: Christmas year, currency label, total budget and up to 40 people, each with a gift budget
• Gift List: 300 gifts with budget, actual cost, bought, wrapped and delivered
• Budget: 12 categories (gifts, food, decorations, travel, events and more) plus a 200-row spending log
• Menu + Shopping: a Christmas Day menu for up to 40 dishes and an 80-item shopping list
• Cards: a 300-row card list, sent and received
• Countdown: 100 to-dos with due dates, plus a December calendar
• Plus a 3-page Quick-Start PDF with your Google Sheets copy link

THE DASHBOARD
• KPI cards: Days to Christmas; Spent so far; Left to spend; Gifts bought; Gifts wrapped; Cards sent
• Progress bars: budget used, gifts bought, gifts wrapped, to-do list done
• 4 charts: Budget vs spent by category (bar), Gifts bought vs to buy (doughnut), Spend by person (column), To-dos by week to Christmas (stacked column)
• Everything updates as you type, no buttons or macros

KEY FEATURES
• Starts blank: no sample rows to delete
• A gift budget for each person, with gifts, spent, left and bought filled in
• Gift costs and bought Christmas Day shopping add to the budget for you
• Over-budget gifts and categories turn red
• The December calendar shows what's due each day, with Christmas Day in red
• Any currency: type your own label ($, £, €, A$, NZ$ and more)
• Reuse it every year: change the year on Setup and the countdown follows
• No macros, no add-ons

WORKS WITH
• Google Sheets: click the copy link in the Quick-Start PDF and Google makes your own copy in your Drive. Free Google account, any browser or the app. No unzipping needed.
• Microsoft Excel 2016 or later, or Microsoft 365: unzip the download and open the .xlsx. Desktop recommended. No macros.
• Charts and formulas work in both. Excel adds data bars to the progress rows; Google Sheets shows them as text bars.
• The Dashboard is protected without a password in Excel so formulas aren't overwritten by accident. Google Sheets doesn't keep this, so take care with shaded cells there.

WHO IT'S FOR
• Planning Christmas on a budget
• Keeping track of every gift
• Hosting Christmas Day
• Any currency, any country

NOT FOR
• Bank feeds or automatic imports
• A printed planner (this is a digital file)
• Shop or business budgets
• Personal financial advice

HOW TO USE
1. Make your copy: click the Google Sheets link in the Quick-Start PDF, or unzip the download and open the .xlsx in Excel.
2. On Setup, check the year, type your currency label and total budget, then add the people you're buying for.
3. Add each gift on Gift List and choose Yes as it's bought, wrapped and delivered.
4. Plan your categories on Budget, the meal on Menu + Shopping, cards on Cards and to-dos on Countdown.
5. Check the Dashboard as Christmas gets closer.

FILES (INSTANT DOWNLOAD)
• SlateAndTally-Christmas-Budget-Gift-Planner.zip: the .xlsx spreadsheet plus the Quick-Start PDF
• SlateAndTally-Christmas-Budget-Gift-Planner-Quick-Start.pdf: the Quick-Start guide on its own, with your Google Sheets copy link
• Digital download: nothing physical is shipped. Your files are under Purchases once payment is confirmed.
• Preview images use made-up example entries. Your file starts blank.

PAIRS WELL WITH
• Monthly Budget Planner (A$4.95)
• Meal Prep + Grocery Tracker (A$7.95)
• Savings Tracker + 52-Week Challenge (A$6.95)

PLEASE NOTE
General info only, not financial advice. This template is a planning and record-keeping tool: it adds up what you type and doesn't give advice about your money. It doesn't connect to any bank.

LICENCE
For your own personal or household planning. Please don't share, resell or redistribute the files or the Google Sheets link.

How this was made: designed by our shop. Layout code and written text were drafted with the help of AI-assisted tools, then reviewed and edited by us. No AI image generators were used: every preview image is a render of the actual spreadsheet, filled with made-up example entries. The pine, bauble and star decorations are simple shapes drawn in code.

REFUNDS
Because this is a digital download, we don't offer returns or exchanges for change of mind. This doesn't affect your rights under the Australian Consumer Law: if a file is faulty, won't open, or isn't as described, send us a message and we'll fix it, replace it or refund you.

Microsoft Excel is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Google Sheets is a trademark of Google LLC. SlateAndTally is not affiliated with either.

Part of the Christmas collection from SlateAndTally.