Your Ultimate Christmas Planning Checklist: 6 Weeks to Christmas Day Countdown

Wednesday, December 08, 2021

It’s the most exciting time of the year again. Are you ready?

The holidays can get pretty hectic when you don’t have a proper plan in place. That’s why we’re making it easy for you to welcome the holiday season with this Christmas Preparation Checklist.

This pre-made To-Do list covers the basic things you need to do prior to, during, and after Christmas to make preparing a huge family feast or a simple family gathering a little less stressful and a whole lot more enjoyable!

Download a Printable version of this checklist here.

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Six Weeks Before Christmas (mid-November)

Create a holiday budget, taking into consideration your decorations, menu, cards, and gifts expenses
Create a holiday calendar. Use TaskSpur to create your Christmas TO DO list
Create a master gift list for family, friends, workmates, etc with corresponding addresses for each
Start your gift research
Start shopping and looking for early holiday deals including Black Friday specials during late November/early December
Curate your own Christmas playlist. Here’s a great list of the classics
Order your holiday cards or e-cards for a greener option

Four Weeks Before Christmas

Order your gifts
Start wrapping your presents as they arrive instead of wrapping them in bulk
Audit your current Christmas stash to see if you can reuse old decors
Address your holiday cards
Stock up on batteries
Hang a wreath on your front door

Three Weeks Before Christmas

Buy your tree
Start putting up your house decorations
Plan your holiday menu
Order your ham or turkey and any special food items
Mail out your holiday cards

Two Weeks Before

Clean your fridge
Start cleaning parts of the house
Make sure your long-distance presents are mailed
Buy perishable pantry items
Prepare your Christmas Eve glasses and dishes
Display the cards you received

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One Week Before

Deep clean the house
Find table setup inspirations
Shop for any missing decorative items
Hang the stockings
Write a grocery shopping list
Go on a big grocery run

Three Days Before

Shop for fresh ingredients
Talk to long-distance friends
Do a final house inspection
Make sure you’ve wrapped all the presents

Two Days Before

Get cooking
Buy some flowers

One Day Before

Ready your Santa surprises
Finish cooking
Set the table
Feel the holiday spirit

Christmas Eve

Put on a Christmas movie
Light a fire if you have a fireplace
Take a family video
Leave out the milk and cookies for Santa
Display the presents

Christmas Day

Open presents!
Make a list of what everyone received and from whom so you can send out thank you cards

Boxing Day

Store all the leftover food
Write and mail out your thank you cards

6 January

Put away your Christmas decorations to use for next year
Properly dispose of your tree

When it comes to planning for an occasion as special as the Christmas holidays, you need to make sure you have ample time on your hands to put everything together. This will allow you to properly execute every part of your plan without sacrificing your normal routine.

If you’re the kind who loves ticking an item off a list, you can get our Christmas checklist pack FOR FREE! This pack contains:

A blank Christmas Calendar
An Ultimate 4-Week Christmas Checklist
A Blank Grocery Checklist
A Blank Master Gifts List

The pack is yours for free! Download Here

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Plan the Holidays with TaskSpur

If you prefer going digital with your Christmas planning, check out TaskSpur. You can easily create a Christmas Checklist Plan on TaskSpur and add each of the listed items above under this master plan.

To use TaskSpur to prepare your Christmas holidays, follow these steps.

Create a new goal on TaskSpur
Name this new goal Christmas To Do or any other name you think would better suit your project
Save
After you have created a goal, create a new task under this Christmas To Do goal. Add the tasks that are relevant to you from the list mentioned above.
Don’t forget to add a start date for each task.
Congrats! You’ve just successfully planned your Christmas holidays.

Now that all your planned tasks are logged in to TaskSpur, you don’t have to look at your tasks individually. TaskSpur’s intelligent assistant, Ari, will automatically create a To Do list for you every day containing all the tasks that you have scheduled for that day.

Easy, isn’t it? Don’t have TaskSpur yet? Download the app to your phone or desktop today!

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