Free tool · for Halloween decorators
Halloween Decoration Planner (Lite)
The simplest way to stop the mid-October scramble. List each decoration on its own row — where it goes, what it costs, when it's due, and whether it's up — and this free single-tab planner totals your spending against your budget and counts down the days to Halloween for you. Download it, fill it in, and skip the panic buy for something you already owned.
Take it with you — free, no signup
Direct download. No email, no account — just the files.
What it does
- Lists one row per decoration: zone, purchase status, estimated and actual cost, due date, and status.
- Totals what you've spent against your budget and shows what's remaining, with no formulas to write.
- Counts down the days to Halloween automatically, and rolls to next year once the day passes.
- Color-codes a completed decoration green and a still-to-buy item orange, so gaps stand out at a glance.
- Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice — no macros, no signup, nothing saved anywhere but your own file.
Own it, don't rent it
Want to plan the whole haunt, not just the budget?
This free starter tracks your plan and your budget. The full Halloween Decoration Planner adds the rest — a permanent decoration inventory so you never buy a second skeleton, a shopping list grouped by store, a week-by-week timeline, a live dashboard, a setup playbook with safety, and printable checklists, in one owned seven-tab workbook (Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice) with a one-click Google Sheets copy.
A one-time purchase you keep and reuse every year — the owned workbook between a blank spreadsheet and a rented planning app.
A planning tool, not safety certification, and not electrical, fire-safety, or building-code advice. The example prices are illustrative. Free to use; please don't resell or redistribute.