Christmas Planner Spreadsheet | Holiday Command Centre | Excel Google Sheets

Christmas can involve far more than gift shopping. School dates, work events, family visits, meals, decorating, cards, grocery cut-offs, hosting jobs and travel plans all compete for attention. The SheetSmithery Christmas Planning Command Centre gives those moving parts one clear home. This 13-sheet workbook is designed as the broader companion to a detailed Christmas Budget & Gift Tracker. It deliberately avoids duplicating deep per-person gift budgeting and instead focuses on the operational planning around the season. WHAT IS INCLUDED - Start Here - Dashboard - Key Dates - Master Tasks - Events & Visits - Meals & Hosting - Shopping Overview - Decorations & Setup - Cards & Postage - Traditions & Activities - Travel & Guests - Budget Summary - Settings KEY FEATURES - Live Christmas countdown - Open task count and task completion percentage - Upcoming event overview - Shopping-left count - Cards-to-send count - Decoration progress - High-level planned versus actual festive budget - Task owners, priorities, deadlines and status - Event and family-visit planning - Meal and hosting coordination - Seasonal shopping with planned and actual cost - Decoration setup and replacement tracking - Card and postage tracking - Traditions and activity planning - Travel and overnight guest organisation - Reusable year after year SAMPLE DATA The workbook includes realistic sample information so you can see the system working before replacing it with your own Christmas plan. COMPATIBILITY Microsoft Excel: open the supplied XLSX directly. Google Sheets: upload the same XLSX file into Google Drive or Google Sheets and open it there. One master workbook is supplied, not a separate duplicate Google Sheets workbook. The workbook uses standard formulas and common spreadsheet features selected for normal Google Sheets import. Minor visual differences in fonts, charts, conditional formatting, widths or print layout may occur after import. DIGITAL PRODUCT This is a digital download. No physical item is posted or shipped. PERSONAL USE Your purchase is for your own personal household use. Resale, redistribution, sharing, marketplace upload or reuse as the basis of another product for resale is not permitted. BASIC CUSTOMER INSTRUCTIONS 1. Download the customer ZIP. 2. Read Read_Me_First.txt. 3. Open the XLSX in Excel, or upload that XLSX into Google Sheets. 4. Open Start Here and set the year and household details. 5. Replace the sample data with your own dates and plans. 6. Review the Dashboard as your Christmas plan changes.