Does anyone have a separate bullet journal or similar organiser just for Christmas?

[Wondermoomin]

I use the bullet journal method for day to day and get on well with it. I thought it might be useful to have a separate BuJo notebook just for Christmas planning and prep - it would last for a few years, I'd be able to look back on gifts so I didn't buy people the same thing all the time etc

Now I'm just wondering how to structure it and looking for ideas...

Bullet journaling for me is way more about functionality rather than pretty pages, and it's generally pretty pages that come up when I google

Anyone got any suggestions for what works well in terms of form and structure?

I just have an ordinary exercise book, where I write lists of everything to do and buy, and tick them all off.

My notebook is quite small so the first thing I do is a double page for each major person to buy gifts for (close family) and a page for others. On the left I write ideas and in the right what I eventually buy.

Then I have a month by month to do list (sept, oct, Nov, Dec). You can probably break down December into week by week.

Then a few pages for food - some ideas on what meals, treats, baking to do. A page each for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day meals. And possibly some items to remember for the shopping list. Include here the guests you will have for each meal.

And I like to have a couple of pages of general thoughts and ideas.

You can also add lists of what gifts are received for writing thank you notes.

And finally what you will / won't do next year at the end.

By having it in a separate notebook I find it easier to look back at what I've done previous years.

I love a BuJo, but haven't actually used mine for months now after losing my enthusiasm. A Christmas version might just be enough to get me back in to it!

I love my BuJo but I’m not convinced that it’s a format that lends itself to Christmas organization. I think it works brilliantly on a day to day basis but on a year to year timeframe I think you’d end up with a huge amount of rewriting.

I keep a list on my phone, but before that I updated my notes on the computer each year, printed it and kept it all in a binder so I could add pages to different sections.

That said, I’m just not very good at organising information into categories so feel free to ignore my nay-saying

Currently my Christmas Master Plan has sections on
• month by month tasks (when tickets are released/ when shops have sales
• recipes
• timings for cooking
• notes on key events
• different shopping lists (one for Christmas dinner, different breakfasts, dinner party etc)
• notes on what worked and didn’t, what not to do again and why,
• table setting
• guests foibles (who needs a hard chair; who doesn’t eat choc; who needs to sit closest to the loo, etc; diet issues for diabetes/heart medication)
• gifts:who got/gave what for last five years and whether gifts were a success or not.
• what santa and the reindeer got up to/ left behind
• anniversaries of deaths (sensitive time for many people)
• guide to packing away Christmas stuff (some stuff needs to be near the front etc)
• general musings (these eventually get moved into relevant sections)
• craft tracker
And I have a gift/spending list where I set a budget for each aspect of Christmas spending and keep track of ideas or gifts, budgets, what I’ve actually spent, what’s been ordered/delivered/wrapped/stashed and where

Some would lend itself well to a BuJo but even though I miss the tactile pleasure of my binder, my phone is too efficient and convenient to swop now.

I just bought My Crimbo Planner on Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Planner-Christmas-Organiser-Handmade-Standard/dp/B01M1S5S5P/ref=sr_1_1?tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1535908132&sr=8-1
I've never used a Christmas planner before but I'm a big fan of using bullet journals so I think I'm going to enjoy it. In previous years I just used a spreadsheet on my laptop for gifts and lists and stuff.