Christmas Planner Record Book | Gift List, Cards, Spending Tracker (19 Pages)

You bought it in September, hid it somewhere sensible, and found it again in April. Christmas is one afternoon and about eleven weeks of small decisions, none of which is written down anywhere. Who was sent a card, what your brother got last year, where the good wrapping paper went, and whether the thing you bought in October is in the loft or in the boot of the car. All of it is knowable and none of it is known. WRAPPED is 19 pages of plain, ruled paper for exactly that. Who gets what, what you bought and where you hid it, what it came to, the cards, the addresses, and what you gave everybody last year so you do not give it again. THE FOUR PAGES THAT PAY FOR IT The list, and who is actually on it. Who gets something, who gets a card, and who quietly came off the list in 2023. One page, written before anything is bought. Bought, hidden, wrapped, labelled. Four ticks per present. The hiding place column is the reason this book pays for itself in one year. What was given last year. So that nobody gets the same book twice and nobody has to remember. This is the page that makes it worth keeping the book at all. No prices, no budget, no suggestions. It prints nothing to buy and no amount to spend. Every figure in it is one you wrote down after you paid it. WHAT IS INSIDE One — This year How your household actually does it Two — The list Written in October, before anything is bought Three — Bought Two sheets, with the hiding place Four — What it came to Your own figures, after you paid Five — Cards Two sheets, out and in Six — Addresses With the date you last checked Seven — Last year So nobody gets the same thing twice Eight — Food And what people told you they cannot eat Nine — Who is coming And where everybody is sleeping Ten — Things to do Your own list, in your own order Eleven — Decorations And where they live in July Twelve — Thank-yous Owed, sent and finally done Thirteen — Next year Written in January, while it is true WHY IT IS A BOOK AND NOT A SPREADSHEET Because it is filled in standing in a hallway with a coat on and two bags in one hand, and read again eleven months later by somebody trying to remember what happened last December. A book goes in the box with the decorations and comes out with them. Nothing on a phone has ever survived that particular journey. WHAT YOU GET Four PDFs, one for each print size: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) A4 Half-Letter (5.5 x 8.5 in) A5 19 pages each. Print at home or at a print shop, as many times as you like, for as long as you like. Plain paper and a ring binder is the whole kit. Instant download, in your Etsy Purchases the moment payment clears. THE SMALL PRINT Digital download. No physical item is shipped. Colours vary between screens and printers. For personal use. Please do not resell or redistribute the files. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS IS The shortest page in the book, and worth reading first. This is your own record of your own Christmas. It prints no price and suggests no present. What this is. Ruled paper for writing down what happened, when it happened and what it came to — with a date beside it. Nothing in it is computed and nothing in it is advice What this is not. Not a budget, not a shopping list and not a gift guide. It contains no price, no amount to spend, no suggestion of what to buy and no recommendation about where to buy it, it works nothing out, and it is not a food safety or allergy record Why it refuses. Because what anybody spends at Christmas is their own business, entirely, and a figure printed in a book bought by a stranger is a stranger's opinion about somebody else's household arriving in the most expensive month of the year. Because prices differ by shop, by country and by week. And because anything about what a guest can safely eat comes from that guest, in their own words, and goes on the page in your handwriting. The columns are here. Every number in them is yours