Holiday Gift Budget Planner

One list, one budget, no January surprise — a gift row for every person, checked against the ceiling.

Features

• Your total gift budget plus a wrap, cards & postage allowance, combined into one real ceiling
• Room for 14 people: gift idea, budgeted amount, actual spend, bought and wrapped tick-boxes
• Running totals for budgeted and actual spending, with a spend-so-far percentage
• A 'still available' figure that updates with every purchase

How to use it

1. Set your total gift budget on the Gift Planner tab — the all-in cost the season may reach
2. List every person with a gift idea and a per-person budget; check the total fits the ceiling
3. As you buy, fill in the actual spend and tick Bought, then Wrapped
4. When 'Still available' reaches zero, the list is done — however many shopping days remain

Format: Excel (.xlsx — also opens in Google Sheets) + printable PDF

Set the budget the smart way with how to set a holiday gift budget, and fund next year's from January with the method in sinking funds for irregular expenses.