What is The Nice List?
a Christmas Planner available in three formats: a digital planner, a printable PDF, and the original paper journal!
“Increase the joy & eliminate the stress of gift giving!”
The Nice List: a Thoughtful Christmas Giving Planner
Thoughtful gift-giving is an art; The Nice List helps you become an even better artist.
I love giving gifts. Like you, I spend a lot of time thinking about and finding that perfect something for the special people in my life.
What is The Nice List?
The Nice List is an easy-to-use Christmas gift-giving planner which helps you get organized, save money, and give better gifts. And The Nice List helps you keep track of the gifts you give year after year -- so you never give the same gift twice unless you intend to do it!
But above all else, The Nice List is a gift-giving system.
Put everyone to whom you want to give a gift on one of three lists:
Family: Meaningful Gifts
Friends: Personal Gifts
Work/School: Tokens of Appreciation
Then, using the Budget Worksheet, you set a per gift budget for each category.
Using both the online tools at MidModernMama.com as well as other tools in The Nice List, you can make thoughtful, budget-conscious choices for each person on your list.
The online tools at MidModernMama.com include access to unique gift suggestions, recipes, and exclusive discounts at retailers for gifts that are truly special.
The Nice List is available in three formats: The Nice List Digital Planner, The Nice List Printable PDF, and The Nice List in Print. All three formats include the same planning tools, so you can plan in the way that works best for you!
The Nice List Tools include:
The Family Pages: a place to jot down ideas for those Meaningful Gifts -- even months in advance! No more relying on your memory for that perfect gift that occurred to you in September.
Coupons and Codes: a spot for tracking coupons and discount codes from all of the emails and online discounts common during the season.
List Pages: track which gifts have been purchased, from where, and for how much as well as shipping information.
Gifts Received: write down all of those gifts you receive -- and keep track of the thank you notes you send.
Journaling: The Nice List also has blank pages, gridded pages, and lined pages for notes, journaling, and scrapbooking. Paste in a copy of your Christmas card -- or the cards you receive. Put in some of your favorite photos from the season. Make notes about meal planning -- or record exactly what you made for Christmas Dinner. I am a journaler -- a little bullet journaling, some art journaling, some scrapbooking -- so I designed The Nice List to be flexible and a great place for recording the best of the season.
The Nice List Digital
Holly Kennedy, my graphic design partner-in-crime (@messymamaholly), and I are so excited to announce The Nice List Digital Planner -- a whole new way to make a list and check it twice! The Nice List Digital Planner works on your tablet or computer and is designed to be used with GoodNotes or Noteshelf. Equipped with all of the goodness of the paper version of The Nice List, The Nice List Digital Planner includes pages which can be duplicated and rearranged making the planner customizable and very easy to use.
Available in two different color schemes, the design is clean and cheerful with plenty of room for digital stickers, notes, photographs, and anything else you may want to add. Oh, and we also have digital sticker sets -- read on!
The Nice List Printable PDF
As we have in the past, we are also offering The Nice List 2020 in a printable PDF format. This option is great for those of you who already have a planner system you love or who prefer using a binder. Perhaps you need larger print? Or you really like to customize your planning? Well, this is the version for you!
Both the Digital and Printable PDF versions are updated with some pandemic-specific ideas and tools as well as room for individualizing and personalizing your planning which makes it all even more fun!
THE NICE LIST: THE ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS PLANNER
Maybe you are a paper planner person and love the paper version. It is back!
What are the benefits?
Christmas gift giving can be stressful and expensive. The Nice List helps you to focus on gifts that are truly meaningful and will be appreciated while also finding the perfect gifts within your budget. In the end you will save time and money, and you will recapture the joy of giving!
So, what is actually inside The Nice List?
November and December calendars
Weekly calendar pages for 10 weeks including To Do lists
20 People pages -- for the most important people in your life
Tips and plans for better gift giving
Dedicated spot for list making
Budgeting worksheet
Blank pages for journaling
Discreet cover -- to keep snooping children or friends away
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The Nice List
This listing is for The Nice List Christmas Workbook + The Nice List All Year.
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Free Gift with Purchase: The Nice List books are designed so that they can be used in a Traveler’s Notebook -- a simple way to keep them together. For a Limited Time we will include a FREE handmade, upcycled traveler’s notebook with each purchase of The Nice List Bundle (while supplies last).
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Christmas is a busy time, particularly for parents. With school performances, parties, shopping, baking, and decorating on top of the normal busyness of life, I know many people find the Christmas season to be… overwhelming.
But it doesn’t have to be.
Over the years I have developed a system that helps me stay on budget, on time, and sane! And now with The Nice List, I am sharing that system with you so you can have a more organized and more beautiful Christmas season.
The Nice List Bundle includes two separate notebooks:
The Nice List All Year: a gift-giving tracker to last for years to come
The Nice List Christmas Workbook: a planner for the entire Christmas season to keep you organized and help bring a little sanity to your holiday season
Both are available individually or together as a bundle.
The Nice List Christmas Workbook includes:
How to Use The Nice List
How to Use The Christmas Workbook
November Calendars: weekly and monthly (undated)
December Calendars: weekly and monthly (undated)
Weekly To Do Lists for November and December (undated)
What Sparks Joy for You? Setting priorities for the holiday season
Budgeting worksheets: to establish a budget for your Christmas season — and for each gift, too
Coupons & Codes: tracker for holiday sales and discount codes
Giving Lists: to help you prioritize where you spend you money and on whom
Thoughts on Thoughtful Giving: ideas for gift giving and reducing the stress of the holidays
Thank You Note Tracker
Holiday Card Tracker
Menu Planners
Baking Planners
Shopping Lists
Blank pages for notes and planning
With a little planning and some careful thought before a gift is ever purchased, The Nice List can help you keep Christmas from spinning out of control and help you find the perspective you need. The Nice List helps you set deadlines to avoid high shipping charges and has a tool for tracking all of those promo codes and sale codes that start to flood your email inbox, too.
The Nice List All Year gives you a place to track all of the gifts you give the loved ones in your life -- not just at Christmas time. It is designed to be used for multiple years and can be purchased separately if you have more than 15 people in your life to track.
The Nice List All Year includes:
How to use The Nice List
How to use The Nice List All Year
Giving Records for 15 people covering multiple years
The Nice List All Year is also designed to be used by anyone -- not just people who celebrate Christmas. From Hanukkah to Lunar New year, Kwanzaa to Eid, and birthdays, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day and more -- record every gift you give and make notes for coming occasions, too.
Plus, when you use The Nice List All Year year after year, you develop a record of your gift-giving, so you never give the same gift twice!
Not only is The Nice List a beautiful planner, but it also comes with online tools including an extensive giving guide with gift suggestions in every budget for every person on your list — parents, inlaws, kids, friends, teachers. We have suggestions for them all and exclusive discount codes as well.
I love the Christmas season so much I have written what my husband described as my “love letter to Christmas” — The Nice List!
Order your copy of The Nice List today, and give yourself the gift of a very organized and holiday season!
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ABOUT THE CREATORS:
Angela K. Nickerson (@midmodernmama), author, and Holly Kennedy (@messymamaholly), designer, both love office supplies, planners, stickers, and creative living. They have been producing The Nice List, their first journal product, since 2016 and have been collaborating on projects big and small for almost 15 years. Together they are @owlandember and owlandember.com.
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