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Free Template
Gift Wishlist Template
Print it blank to hand out, or fill it in here and print it or copy it as text to send. Works for Christmas, a birthday, or any exchange with a spending limit.
Rows on the sheet
Columns to include
Preview
What makes a wishlist somebody can shop from
A list of categories is not a list. "Books" tells a gifter nothing they did not already know, and they will end up guessing anyway. Name the thing, and where it might be found.
Add a size or a color wherever it matters, because that is the detail that decides whether something gets worn or returned. Add roughly what it costs, which is the kindest thing on the sheet: it tells somebody working to a limit which items are actually available to them.
And put two or three cheap things on it. A list of four expensive items in a twenty-five dollar exchange is a list nobody can use, and the person holding it ends up buying something that was never on it.
How many things to put on it
Five to eight is the range that works. Fewer than five and whoever drew you has no choice left once one item is unavailable. More than about ten and the list stops reading as preferences and starts reading as a catalog.
Spread them across prices rather than listing them in order of how much you want them. The point of the list is that somebody can find one thing on it they can afford and be confident it will land.
Print it or send it
A blank sheet is the right answer for a room: hand them out, collect them, done. Choose how many rows and which columns you want and print as many as you need.
Filling it in here is the right answer for a phone. Type the items, then copy the whole thing as plain text and paste it into a message, or print your own copy. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent anywhere.
When a shared list beats a sheet of paper
A sheet has to be handed to somebody, and in a Secret Santa the one person who must not see it is standing in the same room. Paper solves that badly.
An exchange run here gives every person a list of their own that only whoever drew them can see. It can hold photos and links, it can be changed after the draw without redistributing anything, and somebody who would rather not write a list at all can answer four short questions instead.
Questions About Wishlists
Five to eight, spread across prices. Fewer than five leaves whoever drew you with no options once one item is unavailable, and more than about ten stops reading as preferences.
Yes, roughly. It is the kindest thing on the sheet: somebody working to a spending limit can see at a glance which items are actually available to them, rather than having to guess and risk getting it wrong in either direction.
Yes. Fill it in here and copy it as plain text, then paste it into whatever you already use to talk to the group. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent from this page.
Yes. Nothing on the sheet is specific to Christmas, and the header line takes whatever you want to call the occasion.
They can, and without the printing. An exchange run here gives every person a list only their gifter can see, with photos and links, which is the part paper cannot do in a Secret Santa - the one person who must not see the sheet is usually in the same room.