Christmas Planner Excel & Google Sheets, Holiday Budget + Gift List, Christmas Card List, Menu, Holiday To-Do Checklist | Neutral Cream

Gifts, budget, cards, food and every to-do – one calm plan from November to Boxing Day. Add the people you buy for with a budget, move every gift from Idea to Ordered, Bought, Wrapped and Given, log everything else you spend by category, and work through a ready-made Christmas checklist whose dates count back from the big day. The dashboard counts the days, tells you what's due this week, what to order now so it arrives in time, which deliveries look late, who still needs a gift and where you stand against your budget – in plain English.

This listing is the Editorial design (neutral cream look). Same features also available in Midnight and Blush – see my shop.

━━━ WHAT YOU GET ━━━
• Christmas Planner for Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)
• Google Sheets version – a PDF with your personal 'Make a copy' link
• A second copy filled with sample data, so you can explore every feature first

━━━ 10 TABS ━━━
• Start: quick guide
• Setup: currency, year, total budget, delivery days, the big day and a budget per category
• Dashboard: days to go, spent vs budget, budget left, people sorted, gifts to buy, to-dos, cards sent, shopping list – plus insights and 2 charts
• To-Do: 24 ready-made Christmas tasks with due dates counted back from the big day – edit or add your own
• Gifts: for, gift, status, planned, paid, store, ordered, arrives – with order-by date and alerts
• People: group, budget, wishes and sizes – with gifts, spent, left and status
• Spending: everything besides gifts by category: food, tree, decorations, travel …
• Cards: who gets a card, sent and received
• Menu: meal, course, dish, who makes it and the prep day
• Shopping: the shopping list with tick boxes

━━━ GOOD TO KNOW ━━━
• Checklist dates move with the year – reuse it every Christmas
• Order-by dates so gifts arrive in time
• Works with 14 currencies
• Plain-English insights – the file tells you what your numbers mean
• 14 currencies: USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, NZD, CHF, SEK, NOK, DKK, PLN, JPY, INR, ZAR
• White cells are yours, shaded cells calculate automatically
• Excel version: sheets protected without a password, so formulas can't break by accident
• Dropdowns and input checks keep your data clean
• All text in English

━━━ WORKS WITH ━━━
• Microsoft Excel 2010 or newer (Windows & Mac), Microsoft 365
• Google Sheets (free, needs a Google account)
• Not tested in Apple Numbers or LibreOffice

━━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━━
1. Download the files after purchase (Etsy → Purchases).
2. Excel: open the .xlsx file. Google Sheets: open the PDF and click the link – Google makes your own copy.
3. Fill in Setup (2 minutes) and start logging.

━━━ PLEASE NOTE ━━━
• This is a digital download – nothing will be shipped.
• Images show the sample-data version. Your file starts empty.
• For personal use. Please don't resell or share the files.

Questions? Send me a message – I'm happy to help.