Christmas can be a stressful time of year. There are presents to buy, cards to send, relatives to manage, events to plan…You get the picture. Our best advice for a successful Christmas is to plan, and plan well in advance. Here are some helpful fact sheets and links to help make the season a success:
SOME USEFUL PLANNING TEMPLATES
We have some handy planning templates to help you with you with your preparations. You can download these, save them to your computer and/or print them as you see fit. If you have a “Christmas Planning Folder” you can label tabs to fit the suggested sections.
- Christmas Card Planner: Tab 1 Christmas Cards
- Decor: Tab 2 Christmas Decor
- Gift List: Tab 3 Christmas Gift List
- Menu: Tab 4 Christmas Menu
- Craft List: Tab 5 Christmas Craft List
- Gifts to Make: Tab 6 Christmas Gifts to Make
- Baking and Food Making: Tab 7 Christmas Baking
- Food and Drink Shopping List: Tab 8 Christmas Food Shopping
- Gift, decor and other Shopping: Tab 9 Christmas Gift and Other Shopping List
- Event Planner: Tab 10: Christmas Party Plan List
MONTH BY MONTH AND WEEKLY PLANNING GUIDES
These are handy downloadable fact sheets of the information included in the regular Cracker of a Christmas Blog posts.
- Month by Month Planner
- Six weeks out Checklist
- Five weeks out Checklist
- Four weeks out Checklist
- Three weeks out Checklist
- Two weeks out Checklist
- One week out Checklist
