A one-page Christmas gift list for the person doing the buying: Person · Gift idea · Budget · Spent · Bought · Wrapped, with a total at the bottom and room at the top for your overall budget and the date you want to be done by. Three designs, free to print.
Open a design to fill it in. Type everyone you’re buying for, one per line, with a budget after a comma (Mom, 60) and the Total row adds them up. A line starting with # becomes a heading, so # Teachers or # Stocking stuffers splits the page into groups. Leave it empty and you get a page of blank rows to fill in by hand.
A Budget That Holds
- Set the total first, then split it by person. It’s easier to move $10 from one line to another than to find it in January.
- List the people you forget: teachers, the mail carrier, the host of the party you’re going to, the Secret Santa at work, stocking stuffers.
- Give wrapping and shipping their own line. Paper, tape, gift bags and postage add up, and they never belong to one person.
- Write the price in “Spent” when you buy, not later. The gap between Budget and Spent tells you where you are at a glance.
- Tick Wrapped as you go, so Christmas Eve isn’t a hunt through closets for what still needs paper.
On Paper or on Your Phone
Paper is good for planning at the kitchen table. If two of you are shopping, a shared checklist keeps you both on the same list: one person ticks off a gift in the store and the other sees it on their phone. For the people buying for your kids, send them a Christmas list they can claim gifts from, so nothing doubles up.
Kids making their own lists? There’s a printable Christmas wish list for them and a letter to Santa template. Drawing names at work or in the family? Use the Secret Santa generator.
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Questions
Is the Christmas gift list template free?
Yes. Three designs, each one US Letter page, free to print or save as PDF. What you type stays in your browser.
Does it add up my budget?
Yes. Type each person with a budget after a comma (for example "Mom, 60") and the Total row on the printed page adds them up. You can also type your own overall budget at the top.
Can I group people on the list?
Yes. A line starting with # becomes a heading row, such as # Family, # Teachers or # Stocking stuffers.