Budget Worksheet Christmas

Budget worksheet Christmas is a free resource for the purpose of helping you plan your Christmas budget, even though it is probably the last thing on your mind at the end of the summer holidays or in the run up to Christmas. However, you will be able to enjoy Christmas a lot more if you knew you could afford it by planning ahead a little using a budgeting worksheet such as I am providing here for you.

I've always started to think about Christmas in October. I like to spread the cost a little as I found I ended up spending more than I anticipated. Once you have a growing family, Christmas gets a whole lot more expensive.

Instead of going round to Mum's for a lovely, well-cooked Christmas dinner, it'll be me preparing and cooking the meal for the family members! When I started to look into the costs, I decided to make it much easier by setting up this budget worksheet. This allows me to know in advance how much it's likely to cost so I can spread the cost over several months and even begin to think about saving for next year.

Don't leave it until December to start using this spread sheet, but even if it is already December it's still worth using as people tend to panic spend as it gets closer to the Christmas holiday season and end up going over budget.

Your Christmas budgeting should be started in October or November at the latest to help you plan your spending, so think about this for next year and save this worksheet file. Christmas will be a whole lot easier on your wallet if you spread the cost over several months (or if you're really organised, the whole year) rather than forking out for it in just one month, ouch!

This Budget Worksheet Christmas spreadsheet covers Christmas meals, nibbles, drinks, parties and clothes. It also has an extra tab to keep track of gifts and stocking fillers. Filling it in will show you the true cost of Christmas!

This budget is available in Microsoft Office Excel, 2003 or as a PDF (in two parts). Choose your preference below.

How to download this Christmas budget worksheet

Christmas Budget Worksheet (zip / xls)

Instructions to Download

Click on the link and save the zip file to your computer. Saving it to the desktop may be easiest for you but if you want to save it somewhere else do take note of where you saved it so that you can find it again.

Once saved, find it on your computer, double click on the zip folder to open it and you will either have an option to ‘extract all files’, or you will be able to double click on the actual xls file to open it. The worksheet file has been created as a Microsoft Excel 2003 worksheet.

The PDF version

Once your file has opened, you can save it to your desktop and print it out.

You will need Adobe Reader (the latest version is recommended) installed on your computer in order to open and read the budget. You can get Adobe Reader here (a new window will open so you can download it without leaving the Budget Worksheet Christmas page).

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