Back-to-School Planner (Excel)

Back to school, without the chaos.

Shopping lists, budgets, to-dos, and school dates for every child, in one Excel file. See what's left to spend, what's left to buy, and how many days until the first day. No macros.

WHAT IT DOES

• Up to 5 kids, each with their grade, school, teacher, first day, school times, and budget

• Shared family items with their own budget

• Shopping list for every child: quantity, estimated price, bought, and what you actually paid

• Budget, planned and left for each child (planned = paid so far plus estimates for the rest)

• 8 categories you can rename

• To-do list for forms, shots and jobs, with This week and Overdue flags

• School calendar: first days, events, no-school days and deadlines, with days away

• Dashboard: countdown to the first day, budget tiles, each child, coming up, to do next, school day times and a chart by category

• Start Here guide and an example family

WHO IT'S FOR

Parents getting one or more kids ready for school, from kindergarten to high school.

GOOD TO KNOW

• Works in Microsoft Excel: Microsoft 365, Excel 2010 or later on Windows, and Excel for Mac

• Normal .xlsx file: no macros to enable

• Reuse it every year: save a copy and update the dates

• One-off payment, instant download

Made by Lee at Sheet Leveller, whose tutorials have been watched 6.3 million times on YouTube.