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Printable and spreadsheet planners for the specific, messy parts of real life. Works in Excel and Google Sheets, opens on your phone, and downloads the moment you pay.

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The Two-Homes Gift Tracker$9

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The holiday planners

Ten of them, each built for one specific problem rather than for planning in general. $9 each.

The Scale Up tab. Each ingredient is multiplied out to five whole batches, then converted into whole shop packs with the cost of each and what will be left over. Below it, the Setup tab reports five batches, 120 cookies, $66.56 and 55 cents a cookie.

The Cookie Swap Batch Planner

It earns its place when the swap wants six dozen or more, your recipe makes far fewer than that, and you are doing the shop and the bake on the same weekend.

The Dashboard tab showing spend per child, the difference against each target, and a fairness gap of 84 dollars between the highest and lowest spend.

The Fair Share Gift Budget

It earns its place when you are buying for three or more people and you care whether it lands evenly.

The List tab. Each household shows whether they were sent a card, whether they wrote back the last two years, and a verdict: Sending, Two years nothing back, They wrote first, or Dropped. Below, the Setup tab reports 15 cards, 4 overseas, $50.20, three an evening across five evenings.

The Fifty-Card Christmas List

It earns its place at forty cards and up, when some go overseas, and when you have ever run out of stamps on the eighteenth of December.

The Table tab. Eight guests against thirteen dishes. Most can eat all thirteen. Sam can eat eight, Aunt Bea five with nothing at pudding, and Priya can eat two with nothing at the main course.

The Mixed-Diet Christmas Table

It earns its place when two or more people at the table avoid different things, when you are cooking ten dishes or more, and when at least one of those restrictions is an allergy.

The Reset tab. At the minimums the same $2,400 takes 23 months and $590 in interest. At $200 a week it is gone on 29 March 2027 for $74.74. Each debt has a clear-by date: the overdraft on 11 January, the store card on 1 February, the credit card on 15 March, the payment plan on 29 March.

The Ninety-Day January Reset

It earns its place when the amount is a few hundred to a few thousand, it is spread across two to eight places, and what is missing is a date rather than an intention.

The Timeline tab. Turkey starts prep at 10:15 AM and comes out at 2:15 PM. Roast potatoes are flagged with a red temperature clash because they need 425 degrees while the turkey needs 325.

The One-Oven Thanksgiving Timeline

It earns its place when you are making six or more dishes, at least four of them want the oven, and someone is arriving at a fixed time.

The Draw tab. Each giver is matched to a receiver, with the receiver's region and a personal post-by date. Below, the Reveal Day tab shows the call time converted into each person's local clock.

The Remote Secret Santa Kit

It earns its place when people are in more than three regions, parcels have to cross a border, and there is a call at the end.

The Calendar tab. Each December day shows the activity, the minutes you have, what it costs, how long it takes and whether it fits. The tenth of December is flagged pink because a thirty minute den takes longer than the twenty minutes available. Below, the month totals twenty-four days for $13.00, 54 cents a day, with seventeen free days.

The Twenty-Four Day Toddler Calendar

It earns its place if you have ever started an advent activity plan and quietly abandoned it somewhere around the eighth of December.

The Split tab. Two trips side by side: the Delaneys at $670 over three nights, $223 a night, and the Okonkwos at $2,190 over four nights, $548 a night. The gap is $1,520, the budget is $460 over cap, and Nora owes Theo $550.

The Two Christmases Travel Budget

It earns its place when one family is a long way further than the other, you are both paying for different parts of it, and December has a number attached to it that you have already quietly gone past once before.

The Gift Log tab. Two rows for Mario Kart, one from each household, both flagged in red as a duplicate. Two Lego sets are flagged amber.

The Two-Homes Gift Tracker

It earns its place when two homes are both buying, and at least one of you would rather find out in November than on the day.

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All ten holiday planners — $39

Gifts, budgets, Secret Santa, cards, menus, hosting timelines, the toddler calendar and the January reset. Bought separately they are $90.

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How it works

Buying a file is unfamiliar to a lot of people, and the worry is almost always logistical rather than financial. So, plainly:

1PayCard or PayPal. No account, no password, no address — a first name and an email.
2DownloadThe link appears on the next screen and lands in your inbox at the same time. It does not expire.
3Open itDouble-click for Excel, or upload to Google Drive and open with Google Sheets. Every formula carries over.

What buyers say

★★★★

Straightforward and clear. Would suit anyone with a few hundred to a couple of thousand to clear — probably too simple if your situation is more complicated than that, which the page does say.

A buyeron The Ninety-Day January Reset

★★★★★

Simple, and it does the one job. The sent and not-sent column is oddly satisfying.

Marieon The Fifty-Card Christmas List

★★★★

Useful. I had already worked out most of my menu so I used it more as a checking tool, and it did catch one dish I had forgotten had butter in it.

A buyeron The Mixed-Diet Christmas Table

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