Christmas Planner and Christmas Planner Printable, Gift Tracker & Hosting Playbook, Portion Calculator, Thaw Chart, Christmas Morning Plan, 34 Pages, PDF Playbook

Christmas Planner and Christmas Planner Printable, Gift Tracker & Hosting Playbook, Portion Calculator, Thaw Chart, Christmas Morning Plan, 34 Pages, PDF Playbook
$29.00

WHAT YOU GET

PLANNING THE SEASON

  • The Gift List: two pages, 30 rows for who, the idea, budget, spent, and whether you have actually got it. Totals at the bottom for budget, spent, and over or under

  • Heard It In June: the year-round capture page. Every time somebody mentions something they want, it goes here with the date

  • Stockings And Small Gifts: the spend that quietly doubles the budget, plus host gifts, teachers, neighbours and Secret Santa with the limit written down

  • Cards And Parcels: last posting dates local and abroad, then card sent, parcel sent, address checked

  • Wrapping And Hiding: the wrapping station, what you still need, and a table for what you hid and where. Every family finds a present in August

  • What We Gave Last Year: so nobody gets the same thing twice

FEEDING EVERYONE

  • How Much To Buy: portions per adult for turkey, goose, prime rib bone-in and boneless, ham, salmon, potatoes, stuffing, gravy, sprouts, pigs in blankets, pudding, cheese and ice

  • Both Tables: separate guest lists for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, with dietary needs, because it is rarely the same crowd

  • Thaw And Brine Dates: up to six days for a big bird, plus the cold-water rescue, then work backwards to the day it moves to the fridge

  • Two Menus, One Oven: Eve and Day side by side, grouped by oven temperature

  • The Oven Timeline: nine slots from four hours out to plating, with temperatures

  • The Fridge Plan: fridge tetris is as real as oven tetris

THE TWO DAYS

  • Presents And A Roast: the Christmas morning page. Who runs the presents, what breakfast needs no oven, who is in the kitchen and who is not, and what the children do from ten until lunch

  • Overnight Guests: who sleeps where, beds and towels, and breakfast for the whole house two mornings running

  • Working Backwards, Three Trips shopping, Drinks And Ice, Borrow List, The Table

  • Allergen tent cards: cut, fold, stand one by every dish

  • Job cards: cut them out and hand them over, so you are not directing traffic while carving

  • Hour By Hour: tape it to a cupboard door

  • The Shot List: the photographs you will want in ten years, including one of whoever cooked

AFTERWARDS

  • Leftovers, labelled and sent home

  • The Second Day: six Boxing Day options planned before it becomes sandwiches

  • What Worked This Year: including what you spent versus what you meant to spend

  • Recipes Worth Keeping, When Something Fails, and a note to read next November

HOW IT WORKS

  1. Buy, and the PDF is in your account straight away. No waiting, no post

  2. Print the pages you need at home on US Letter, 8.5 x 11, at 100% actual size

  3. Start with the gift tracker now and the portions page in November

  4. Print it again next year, and the year after. Nothing in here is dated

GOOD TO KNOW

  • Instant download, nothing is shipped

  • 34 pages, US Letter, print at home or at a print shop

  • Fonts are embedded, so it looks the same everywhere

  • Tent cards and job cards work best on cardstock

  • Works for any two-day gathering with presents: New Year, Hanukkah, a birthday weekend

For personal use. Print as many copies as you like for yourself or as a gift. Please do not resell, share or redistribute the files, or sell printed copies.

Because of the nature of digital files, all sales are final. If anything will not open or print, message me and I will sort it out.

You will get a PDF (138KB) file