Budget Humbug

Budget Humbug

Congratulations to the winners of ListPlanIt‘s Print Membership (Bev, Lisa P., Stacey K.) and to the winners of the 100 Days to Christmas 2011 eBook (Marcia, Natalie, Suzy, Jennifer A, Kimberly). Look for an email with the details of your prize.

With wish list(s) in hand (or at least in progress), it is time to face the facts and create your Christmas budget. The holidays are about loved ones and about GIVING, right? However, if you do not create a budget to guide your purchases over the next few months, the holidays will be about giving to your credit card company for the next year!

The Countdown to Christmas Challenge for today is to prepare a budget to place in your handy holiday planner for quick reference throughout the holiday season. List your expenses to have an accurate record of all that is involved with the joyous, but often rather expensive, holiday. Refer to it often to keep you on track. Next year, when it is time to create another Christmas budget, you can look back on this budget as a guide for future spending.

Some categories to include in your Christmas budget are: Gifts, Decorations, Food/Drink, Holiday Entertainment, and Charitable Giving. *

* Available as a download in the 100 Days to Christmas 2011 eBook. Members to ListPlanIt.com can print or download Holiday Budget Planner in Holidays & Occasions as a worksheet for your Christmas budget.

This week, we are excited to be giving away a Kindle 3G plus a gift card from Amazon for $5 toward the purchase of our 100 Days to Christmas 2011 eBook.

You have several ways to enter to win : 1) leave a comment here and tell us why you’d like a Kindle,

2) tell your friends & followers about 100 Days to Christmas on Twitter (it’s easy to do with our share buttons below) and leave a comment here linking to your Twitter handle (be sure to follow @100Days on Twitter, too),

3) subscribe to 100 Days to Christmas‘ RSS feed using a reader or by email (and get our daily posts delivered straight to your inbox) and leave a comment here,

4) blog about 100 Days to Christmas, then leave a comment here linking to your post.

5) follow our page on Facebook and tell our entire community that you are going to participate in this week’s giveaway by leaving the following message on our Facebook wall, “Christmas would come early this year if I win a Kindle 3G from http://100DaystoChristmas.com!”.

One of each of these per day please. You have until Friday, September 23 at 6 pm EST to enter.

Micki

I would love a Kindle so I could read 100 Days to Christmas on something bigger than my iPhone screen, and also because I travel alot back and forth to help take care of my grandparents. It would be great to not have to lug a separate book bag. I love to read!
hatrick316

I’d like a Kindle so I won’t rack up late library fees.
Jennifer Brosnahan

I would like a Kindle so I can give one to my daughter for Christmas!
http://pictfamily.wordpress.com Erica

How am I doing so far? take a look at pictfamily.wordpress for today’s update. I have a kindle so I can answer for their fabulousness, being given another one would be one more tick off my present list!
Barb

I’d like a Kindle because I enjoy reading in any form.
http://hdmcfar.blogspot.com/ Marcia “HDMac”McFarlane

I have a kindle and absolutely LOVE it. My daughter is wanting to get her two teenage daughters Kindles for Christmas but has a very restricted income. I would LOVE to win a Kindle and help her out this Christmas!!!!!!!!!! Love your giveaways! This one is REALLY fantastic! Thank you for the opportunity!
Dawn M.

To give to my dad for Christmas! It’s been on his list for a very long time….Thanks! I subscribe via RRS as well.
http://www.mycountryoven.blogspot.com Debby S

I subscribe in email! A kindle would be so WONDERFUL to win!
http://hdmcfar.blogspot.com/ Marcia “HDMac”McFarlane

I shared on FB.
http://hdmcfar.blogspot.com/ Marcia “HDMac”McFarlane

I also blogged about it!

And I just saw that I am the Marcia that won the ebook!!! Thank you SO MUCH, Jennifer! I am going to love it and definitely use it!!!!! What a wonderful surprise!!!!!
Aimee

I would love a Kindle because I love to read. I have been wanting one for quite awhile.
Carole M

Further to the budget topic of today, I’d like to win a Kindle because there are a lot of books I would like to read, have not been able to get my hands on through the library, and would be much cheaper in an ebook format than paperback.
Carole M

email subscriber
Carole M

I tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/carolem/status/115781107198341120
kathy t

I would love to win a Kindle -this is an awesome giveaway!
kathy t

I tweeted at #sharingink
http://imom-e.blogspot.com/ Lynn

Ugh… the budget. Don’t really want to think about it, but it is necessary. Especially since I have surgery (repair of rotator cuff) on 9/21 and my oldest child has surgery (removal of ingrown toenail and infection site) on 9/28. My oldest wants a Kindle for Christmas. His school will actually give/loan them their textbooks on the Kindle – our district is plagued with budget issues and in some classes the kids need to share text books.
http://imom-e.blogspot.com/ Lynn

I tweeted! http://twitter.com/#!/iMome2010/status/115781481514803200
kathy t

I placed on FB
kathy t

Oh and I do subscribe through RSS feed
Amanda

I would love to win a kindle so I can finally put all my ebooks from the computer on it!! I also tweeted @AmandaLPaige
Anne B.

Who wouldn’t love to win a Kindle! The ability to carry a library around in one device is awesome! (would also make great Christmas present for husband!)
Mickey

I would love to win a Kindle. By having one I could take several books and magazines on trips, etc without going over the maximum weight for flying. I love have good books accessible when I have idle time. Another possibility is to give it as a gift for Christmas … ’tis the season. hmmmmmm
http://twitter.com/missy75851 missy baker

I tweeted too…would love to have a kindle!!!
http://twitter.com/missy75851
Lesli Peterson

I have an iPad so don’t need a kindle myself, but it is the PERFECT gift for my hubby! Thanks so much for your eBook – I already feel better!
Denise

I’d love, love, love to win a Kindle. The last year or so I’ve been taking my elderly mother and also my fil to loads of dr. appts. and spent many hours in ER waiting rooms. I have been reading tons of books on my iPod Touch. I’m sure reading on a Kindle would be a much better experience and easier on the eyes. It is so nice to be able to read a book anyplace, anytime! Love your 100 Days to CHRISTmas site and already subscribe to the daily emails. Thanks for all your hard work.
http://densdailylife.blogspot.com Denise@ DensDailyLife

I’d love to win a Kindle and give it to my daughter, she’s been reading like crazy this summer ever since I got my ipad, but she didn’t read many books before that! She likes not having to turn pages and having to sometimes hold the book with two hands. The Ipad and Kindle are great for reading.
Tanya Miller

If I won it would be a gift
Tanya Miller

I am subscribed to 100 Days to Christmas by email
http://densdailylife.blogspot.com Denise@ DensDailyLife

I tweeted, my handle is knittingden
also shared on my Fb page, and left a fb message on your wall
http://www.triciawit.blogspot.com Tricia

I would love to win a kindle. I don’t have room on my bookshelves for any more books so a Kindle would eliminate that problem!
Paige

I would love to win a kindle…it would be so easy to curl up with a good book…even if it is in the car transporting my teenage girls to all their activities…
As a single parent, I am so glad I stumbled on your sight..Christmas is daunting for me…
Mostly, I’d love to have a Kindle because it is such a wonderful luzury…Luzury is therapy to any single parent:)
Paige

That’s luxury?:)
Gemma

I would love a Kindle. It would be great to read books whilst waiting for my daughter to finish her swimming/skating lessons without having to take a big book with me!
Gemma

Follow on Facebook.
Tristan

I already have a Kindle on my Christmas list for my daughter. I would love to win one for her!
Andrea B

I want to get a kindle for my hubby hes a hard working teacher who could totally use this at work.. And I can sneak it away for me sometimes to!!!!!
Andrea B

I follow and on fb!
Megan Sneary

I would like to give a kindle to my father for Christmas. He and my mom would likely share it and would really love it. I use mine all the time.
I share your stuff on FB all the time and will do so again!
http://www.help-bring-hope-home.blogspot.com Mattie

I would love to win a Kindle to give my mom for Christmas!
http://www.help-bring-hope-home.blogspot.com Mattie

I have subscribed to get the daily emails from 100 Days to Christmas.
Shanta

I would love a kindle! My daughter has one and I love that it’s smaller than a novel and yet can carry more books than a person can hold. And to be able to take to the beach this Christmas and read outside……how AWSOME would that be?
http://housepayne@blogspot.com Lisa P.

Winning the Kindle would be a huge budget helper! I’ve been wanting an e-reader so I can get magazine subscriptions there instead of having piles clutter up my home.
http://housepayne@blogspot.com Lisa P.

I subscribe in a reader.
http://housepayne@blogspot.com Lisa P.

I blogged: http://housepayne.blogspot.com/2011/09/im-winner.html
http:onforeignsoil.blogspot.com Kris

I’d love to win a Kindle so my bookworm 6-year-old won’t have to drag around a backpack full of books everywhere she goes!
http:onforeignsoil.blogspot.com Kris

Oh yeah, and I blogged! Twice! But here’s the most recent one: http://onforeignsoil.blogspot.com/2011/09/let-holiday-planning-begin.html
Monica

I would love to win a kindle so I have one place for kids’s books and mine when we are out and about.
http://thevuefromhere.blogspot.com/ Lorraine York

The Kindle is on my wish list!
Faith

I would love a Kindle, I’m an avid reader. I’ve already purchased my copy of 100 days to Christmas – next year I could order it for my Kindle (if I win it)
Thanks for having a great givaway!

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