Christmas Budget & Gift Tracker (UK Spreadsheet)

Enjoy a calmer Christmas without the January money hangover. The Christmas Budget & Gift Tracker from Tidy Sums Co keeps your gifts, food and festive extras in one tidy place.

What's inside

- Budget tab: set your overall Christmas budget and split it across gifts, food & drink, decorations, travel, cards & postage, days out and more

- Gift List: recipient, group, gift idea, budget, actual cost, where bought, and Bought / Wrapped / Delivered dropdowns with an automatic status

- Food & Drink planner and an Other Costs tab for decorations, travel, cards, stamps and days out

- Savings Pot: choose your start month (e.g. January) and it works out how much to save each month to hit your target, with planned vs actual tracking

- Dashboard: countdown to Christmas Day, budget vs spent by category, gift progress bars and charts

- Over-budget items highlighted in red, on-track in green

How it works

- Instant digital download - nothing is posted.

- Opens in Microsoft Excel (2010 or later / Microsoft 365) or Google Sheets (upload to Google Drive and open with Google Sheets, or File > Import). No macros or add-ins.

- Every file starts with a 'Start Here' tab with step-by-step instructions.

- You get two versions: an EXAMPLE file filled with made-up data so you can see how it works, and a BLANK file ready for your own figures.

Please note

- This is a digital file, so no physical item will be sent.

- For personal use only - please don't share or resell.

- Colours on screen may vary slightly between devices.

- Questions? Send Tidy Sums Co a message and we'll happily help.

AI-use disclosure: These templates were designed and built by Tidy Sums Co with the help of AI tools, then checked and tested by us. Listing images are real screenshots of the spreadsheets (example data), not AI-generated pictures.