The organized holiday · spreadsheet and printable
One place for the whole season.
The card list, the addresses, the gifts and the budget, in one planner. A spreadsheet with totals and dropdowns, and a printable half that needs no device, survives a kitchen table, and can be handed to somebody else.
- Four sheets — cards, addresses, gifts, budget
- Both formats — the spreadsheet adds totals and dropdowns, the printable needs no device
- A key dates sheet — the whole season from early October to January, with your real dates
- Keep it for next year — the close-out on December 26 leaves next season half done
Included in The Handled Holiday at $39, with both seasonal guides.
What it is for
One thing pinned where you will see it.
It is for the October evening you fill in the key dates with this year’s real ones and stop guessing when anything is due.
It is for the November afternoon you look at one sheet and know exactly who is still missing an address.
It is for December 26, when the close-out takes twenty minutes and next season starts half done.
What is in it
Four sheets, in the order that avoids the scramble.
Dates, then the card list, then addresses, then orders. Use whichever half suits you, or both. The pages carry the same sheets as the spreadsheet.
Key dates
The whole season laid out from early October to January, with a column for your real dates once you have looked up your postal service and your card supplier’s cut-off.
The card list
Households rather than people, with room for who you sent to last year.
Addresses
What is confirmed, what was requested, and who has not replied.
Gifts and budget
What was bought, where, for whom, what it cost, and whether a digital gift was redeemed.
One rule on every page
Never write a code on these pages.
Gift card numbers, PINs and redemption codes do not go here, in the spreadsheet, or in any note. They belong in a password manager, or on a single piece of paper kept with the card until it is redeemed and then destroyed.
These pages record the order number instead, which is what a merchant needs from you if something goes wrong.
Honestly
Who this is for, and who it is not.
This is for you if
- You like a spreadsheet, or you like a printed sheet pinned somewhere you will see it.
- You run cards and gifts at the same time and lose track of which is which.
- You want the budget and the card list in one place rather than four.
- You want next December to start from something.
This is not for you if
- You want the method as well as the tool. The two seasonal guides explain the order; this is where it gets recorded.
- You want all three. The Handled Holiday is $39 and includes this planner and both guides.
If you want more than this
The two guides it was built for.
The planner records. The guides explain the order. The bundle is all three for less than buying two.
This planner and both seasonal guides, for $39 rather than $57.
Get Your Christmas Cards Done Early $19
The four moves and the calendar this planner is laid out to follow.
Before you buy
The questions people ask.
What do I open the spreadsheet with?
It is an .xlsx file. Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets and LibreOffice all open it. The printable half is a PDF and needs nothing but a printer.
Do I need both halves?
No. Use whichever suits you. The spreadsheet adds totals and dropdowns; the printed pages do not need a device and can be handed to somebody else.
Can I reuse it next year?
That is what the close-out on page 14 is for. Twenty minutes on December 26 and next season starts half done.
Do I need an account to open it?
No. It downloads the moment you pay, and it is yours on your own computer. There is no account to make and no site to log back into.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Read it, try it, and if it is not what you wanted, write to us within seven days and we will refund you.
One planner, four sheets, the whole season.
A spreadsheet and a 14-page printable. One payment of $19.
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