As the holiday season commences and Black Friday game plans are being put together, present budgeting can be a valuable tool.
How many times do find something you want to buy but you stand there thinking about what else you've already bought for this person? How many times do you realize you've really overspent on a particular person? How many times have you forgotten about presents you purchased and lose them somewhere in your house and never give them to a person? So much valuable time and money wasted!
Last year I downloaded
Christmas Gifts List Free for my iPhone and it was the perfect solutions for all of my shopping, planning, and budgeting needs for the season!
Once you've downloaded the app, start off by adding people to your list of present recievers and setting a budget for that individual.
Once you've done that, go into that person(s) section and start adding items and their cost to your shopping guide.
Once you've purchased an item for that person, check it off in the list and the app will recalculate how much you have spent and what is left of your budget for that person.
On the apps homescreen, it keeps a running tally of all the people you are shopping for this season and how much you are spending/have spent on each and everyone one of them. Once you've finished shopping for a person just place a check mark next to their name.
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| Apparently last year I really under-budgeted! |
You can even have a secure log in password for the app to keep your pesky loved ones from snooping around and ruining the surprise!
Like I said, I used this app all last year during the holiday shopping frenzy and I absolutely loved it. There's a notes section in the gifts entry so I used that to keep track of when I ordered gifts and when its delivery date would be.
This app is super simple and straight to the point. There is no unnecessary bells and whistles that complicate the process... it just makes Christmas shopping EASY!
Christmas Gifts List Free can be
downloaded for free from the Apple App Store for iPhones, iPods, and iPads.
DISCLAIMER: All the screencaps shown here are based on last year's Christmas shopping plus a little creative altering as examples. To those people shown here, don't get all excited... I hardly done any shopping!
