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Holiday letters are fun to receive ... but can be hard to write. Capture the moments with this wonderful Christmas Newsletter Planner from blogger Organizing Home Life.

Colorful and creative, this free printable planning page helps you get organized to write and send holiday letters. We like the clear, no-nonsense organization, and think this will be a great addition to the Rudolph Club; their monthly assignment includes making notes for a holiday letter.

Nice job, friends!

Christmas Newsletter planner

Oooh ... these free Christmas planning pages from Botanical Paperworks are fresh, pretty, and free for the printing.

With five bright planners, you'll be on top of holiday prep from gifts to cards to Christmas dinner and traditions. The calm color scheme and beautiful headers make it a joy to get organized for Christmas!

Check them out here:

Get Organized With Christmas Planner Pages

Or download the .PDF file:

5 Free Printable Christmas Planner Pages

Small, sweet and colorful, we love this crafty ring-bound planner from craft designer Erica's Doing Something Else!

Erica used commercial scrapbooking products to create her little planner. With simple ring binding, pretty dividers and a free printable for small-sized planner pages, it packs a lot of organizing power in a tiny creative package.

Better, this would make a great "scrappy" project to use extra chipboard and bits and pieces of holiday-themed scrapbooking paper to good effect. Add some down-sized planner pages from Organized Christmas, and you could create your own planner for pennies .. or less!

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Erica's Christmas Planner

Sitting right at the WOW point between pretty and practical, you'll find this Christmas planner from the U.K.: Monica's Christmas Planner.

Layered embellishments spark up a simply-constructed pocket planner, yet leave plenty of space for hard-working planner inserts.

Using printable pocket planner pages for holiday tasks, Monica's planner zeros in on holiday to-dos, while retaining loads of eye candy appeal.

If you live in the U.K., you can purchase a kit from Monica to create this planner yourself. Lovely!

Monica's Christmas Planner

Jump to the intersection of cooking and creativity, and you'll find this pretty holiday menu planner from blogger This Designer Cooks!

With a serene color scheme, sparkling graphics and an efficient layout, this free printable will help you plan and organize holiday meals.

When visiting the site, do follow blogger Stephanie's instructions to download this image for printing. Because it's not shared as a .PDF file, you may need to use a helper application like Microsoft Word to print this image at the size you'll need.

Printable Holiday Menu Planner

Want an easy way to assemble a Christmas planner? Take a tip from blogger Cassadiva!

Her comb-bound Christmas planner lies flat, yet is flexible enough to fold back for easy use.

Cassadiva's assembled her personalized organizer from holiday planning templates from OrganizedChristmas.com. Using a binding service from her local office supply store to build her planner, she's created an efficient and easy-to-make planner option.

Decorated with pretty cover pages, it's a functional and fabulous power tool for holiday planning. Good job!

Cassadiva's Comb-Bound Christmas Planner

Need help keeping tabs on holiday spending? Check out this helpful Christmas Gift Planner printable from iMom.com!

Track your gift list, your budget and your actual spending with this helpful planner page. Bonus checklists for wrapping and mailing make sure your holiday gifts will be decked out and delivered on time.

An ink-saving feature: the site offers two versions of this printable gift list, in color, and in black-and-white. Take your pick!

Money-Saving Christmas Gift Planner

Small is beautiful, when it comes to this sweet notebook for Christmas lists! Pop this little sweetheart into purse or pocket to keep tabs on Christmas lists on the go.

Created by Lisa at the Poppy Paperie blog, this purse-sized project is easy to make with her photo tutorial. Based on an inexpensive mini-composition book, this project features vivid colors and sprightly design, right down to the secure closure and pen loop. Receipt envelopes and divider tabs complete the makeover, turning this tiny notebook into a Christmas organizer!

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Christmas List Notebook from Poppy Paperie

What's better than a D*I*Y Christmas planner? A Christmas planner that uses scraps from the paper stash and recycles itself into a Christmas album after the holiday season.

Check out this example of a ring-bound Christmas notebook from blogger Monika Wright. During the season, stock it with with printable Christmas pocket planner pages, and you have a scrappy Christmas planner for your organized Christmas. At season's end, replace planner pages with photos and journal entries for a clever, creative Christmas album!

Monika's tutorial takes you through construction of this nifty entry in the Christmas planner field. Check it out!

Monika's Christmas Planner / Christmas Album Tutorial

What's the secret to keeping the cheer in Christmas? A Christmas planner!

Command central for holiday planning, a Christmas planner is a dedicated, portable place to keep gift lists, menus, recipes and Christmas card lists.

Using a Christmas planner, you'll save time, cut stress and create the holiday of your dreams.

The Christmas planner concept is popping up everywhere. Scrapbookers make lavish lunchbox planners, while their stamping sisters embellish pocket planners. Notebook fans swear by their 3-ring Christmas binders, while PDA users swap databases for holiday planning.

Here at ChristmasPlanner.com, we gather the best tips, ideas and free printables to help you make your own Christmas planner.

Make a Christmas Planner to Simplify The Holidays

Why make your own Christmas planner? Because just like pantyhose, there's no such thing as "one size fits all" when it comes to preparing for Christmas. Packaged planner solutions often fall flat when it comes to real-world celebrations.

Each of us brings a different spin and emphasis to holiday planning. A champion baker will include recipes, grocery lists and a detailed baking plan in her Christmas planner, while the neighborhood's decorations queen will boast a sheaf of lighting tips, craft instructions and detailed room-by-room decor plans.

A mother of young children collects ideas for family-friendly traditions, while a musical empty-nester plans her holiday schedule around cantatas and ballet performances--and by creating their own, each of them will have a Christmas planner custom-tailored to their values and preferences.

Better, creating your own D-I-Y Christmas planner allows it to grow with you and your family. From year to year, you'll reconfigure your Christmas planner according to your needs--and each year, your Christmas planner becomes more useful and more valuable.

With a multi-year Christmas planner, you'll recall favorite holiday recipes from years past--and be reminded which ones didn't make the grade. Gift lists are a treasure-trove of information to guide the current year's giving. A well-seasoned Christmas planner gets each year's preparations off to a flying start.

Ready? Follow the links below to create your own Christmas planner and simplify the holiday season!