Home Management Tips » Holidays http://www.homemanagementtips.com Manage your home efficiently Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:58:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Budgeting for gifts http://www.homemanagementtips.com/managing-your-money/budgeting-for-gifts/ http://www.homemanagementtips.com/managing-your-money/budgeting-for-gifts/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:22:40 +0000 Lynn http://www.homemanagementtips.com/?p=110 Post from: Home Management Tips

Budgeting for gifts

]]> At the beginning of the year is the perfect time to create an annual gifts budget. When you make out a gifts budget in advance, you don’t have to worry about the impact of forgotten gifts on your monthly or weekly funds. You’ll already have mapped out who you need to buy for and how much you plan to spend, and hopefully, you’ll have that amount included in a sum of funds you’ve set aside each month or week to accumulate until you need to dip into it.

To make the entire process as simple as possible, I’ve uploaded a spreadsheet that I use to track those budgeted gift amounts. By taking the time to complete the spreadsheet and list all the people I’ll be buying for this year, I save myself time later in trying to track gifted amounts and gift values. This also helps keep me from having to worry about gifting too much to one person and not having enough for someone else—think in-laws, children, and siblings…

This spreadsheet includes three sheets:

  1. Instructions
  2. Christmas
  3. Other Gifts (including anniversaries, birthdays, etc.)

The gifts budget spreadsheet is available as a free download on my templates page.

I hope you find it useful. If you do, please consider leaving me a comment.

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Budgeting for gifts

]]> http://www.homemanagementtips.com/managing-your-money/budgeting-for-gifts/feed/ 0 Win an Epson Printer in the Happy Epsonovemberama kirtsy Contest http://www.homemanagementtips.com/managing-your-family/win-an-epson-printer-in-the-happy-epsonovemberama-kirtsy-contest/ http://www.homemanagementtips.com/managing-your-family/win-an-epson-printer-in-the-happy-epsonovemberama-kirtsy-contest/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:42:14 +0000 Lynn http://www.homemanagementtips.com/?p=103 Post from: Home Management Tips

Win an Epson Printer in the Happy Epsonovemberama kirtsy Contest

]]> All you have to do to enter is leave a comment at the kirtsy blog for a chance to win a fancy new Epson Artisan 800 All-in-one Printer. I wanted to share the link because I found that printer tempting and of course, I entered. How could I not?

I’ll be making a post soon to tell how to make the Christmas Card Houses I mentioned in my comment there. After all, the holidays are coming up and you might want to give this a try with your kids. Crafts are a great way to manage your children!

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Win an Epson Printer in the Happy Epsonovemberama kirtsy Contest

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