Printable Holiday Planner
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It’s never too early to start your holiday planning – especially if you want to keep things low stress and low cost. Use this free, printable holiday planner to help you stay organized.
Here’s a cover that you can use to get your holiday planner started. It includes a front, back and spine. Just slip it into a binder, and you’re good to go.
Now, let’s work on building out the inside of your planner.
This calendar is just the thing to help you keep track of all your holiday parties, events and travel plans. It’s undated, so if you want to print one for November, December and January you can definitely do that. And if you want to get ahead by printing several year’s worth of calendar pages, you can do that, too.
Use this Christmas to-do list to make sure you don’t forget to do anything important. It’s organized by category – baking, budgeting, decorations, etc. – and has plenty of room for you to add your own tasks.
It’s easy to blow your holiday budget on gifts, but it’s just as easy to blow it by failing to take all of those other holiday expenses into account – things like decorations, shipping costs and tips. Use this holiday budget worksheet to plan for all those things, so your budget comes out right where it should.
This holiday spending worksheet gives you another way to track your spending throughout the season. It has an extra column to record how much over or under you came for each expense you budgeted for. This can be useful information when you go to set next year’s budget.
Use this printable to create your holiday gift list. It has space to list gift ideas for each person, as well as space to track when gifts have been bought/made, wrapped and given. There’s even a column to keep up with the cost of each gift, so you can see how you’re doing on your gift budget.
Take some of the work out of sending Christmas cards by using this printable to create a Christmas card list. Once you have everyone’s names and addresses in one place, it should only take a few minutes each year to update your list.
Use this baking planner to map out all your holiday baking plans. It has spots to note the source of each recipe, how many batches you need to make and which event or person you’re making the recipe for. There’s even a spot to write out your grocery list and to check off recipes as they’ve been made and sent.
Hosting Christmas dinner, or having a Christmas party? Use this holiday menu planner to plan out each course, and create your grocery list.
There’s more to hosting Christmas dinner than planning the menu and preparing the food. Use this Christmas dinner checklist to break up all those other tasks into manageable chunks, so you don’t get time crunched, or leave off anything important.
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I am new to your site, and I noticed you often mention how you get things for free or get gift cards for free that you can use to purchase items. Where do find the free items or earn the gift cards? Thanks for all of the wonderful ideas!
Hi Christine,
Good question. I get my freebies lots of different ways — by couponing, rebating, requesting samples, etc. I plan to start sharing killer deals when I come across them, so you can do them, too. In fact, I should have a toilet paper deal up later today.
Hey Erin,
Any possibility of fillable forms in the future? These are great but my writing’s a disgrace these days. Thanks for all you do!!
Hey, Denise.
I’ll give it some thought 🙂
These forms are extremely helpful. You thought of everything! Thanks so much for sharing these. 🙂
You’re very welcome, Laurie. I’m glad you found them useful 🙂
Thank you so much for posting and putting this Christmas organizational list together for us.
<3 Cynthia
Thanks so much for sharing these. 🙂 This Holiday Planner are extremely helpful !
This is great and such a big help — thanks for sharing!
You’re certainly welcome. Glad you found it useful 🙂
If you have the Acrobat full program you can use the Form Wizard to convert them to fillable forms to use on your computer.
this is great! i’m going to use some of your ideas this year.
Erin,
I was looking on your site for a print address book (I know you used to have one) and the Christmas Card list was the closest I could find) and I wanted to ask you if you have gotten away from a print one and are now using a digitized one and if so, may I ask which one you use as well as if you do, do you print it off (I see SO many…myself included that have LOST contacts and before I go down this road AGAIN…I wanted your input)? Thank you.
Hey Rhonda, I still keep an old-school printed address book. That printable still lives over on About, which is now the balanceeveryday.com. Here’s a link: https://www.thebalanceeveryday.com/printable-address-book-pages-1388151
Thanks so much for sharing all your wonderful printables they are really appreciated