FREE · HOLIDAY BUDGET
Holiday budget calculator:
what will the season cost?
Add gift groups and the other costs of the season. See the total, how it compares with what you can spend, and what to set aside each week until the holiday. Runs in your browser; nothing is saved.
Season total
vs your limit
Set aside per week
Gifts
GroupPeopleEachSubtotal
Everything else
Keeping track as you shop? The Holiday Budget & Gift Tracker for Google Sheets and Excel has a row per person with gift idea, status and actual cost, logs every other cost, and shows planned vs spent, gifts still to buy and days to go. $5, made by the same person who built this calculator.
Making the season fit
Start from the limit, not the list
Decide the most you can spend without carrying a balance into January, then fit the gifts and the rest inside it.
Gifts are people × amount
Lowering the amount for one big group, or switching a group to a gift swap, usually moves the total more than cutting single gifts.
Step by step
See the 5-step holiday budget plan and checklist.
The weekly number
Season total minus what you have already set aside, spread over the weeks left. Starting a week later makes each week bigger.