I have three wall calendars in my house. But they are all rotated every year, so the three 2013 calendars are the same ones I used in 2006. If there’s a leap year, I just go one day without one, then switch to the next year on March 1. So all together, I use 21 calendars, and never have to buy another one.
I know, cheap bastard.
No, I carefully select my wall calendar every year based on my specific interests that year. Since they often have some pop culture element, I’d feel pretty stupid using them years after the moment has passed. For 2013, I will be using a Downton Abbey calendar. It’s a perfect fit, but I doubt I’ll care in 2019.
I’ve been buying the same three for a long time now, but all of them do offer new content each year. I have the 365 Kittens wall calendar and the Dilbert and Jeff Foxworthy “You Might Be a Redneck” page-a-day desk calendars.
My calendars are like diaries of our families activities. I keep them to remember and I need new ones to write on!
Do you ever turn up for a dentist’s appointment you made seven years ago?
My brother gives my family a wall calendar for Christmas every year. He always gets ones with really nice images, often from local museums or galleries. He once mentioned that he thought he wasn’t being original enough, but I straightened him out right away. If it weren’t for him, I’d probably go out and get one on my own, but it wouldn’t be as nice.
Doesn’t it bother you that the days of the week are all wrong for the days of the month? (For instance, on a 2006 calendar, Jan. 1 was on a Sunday, while Jan. 1, 2013 will be on a Tuesday.)
Me, too. Some day I’ll say to myself, how did we spend our time when the kids were little? And I’ll be able to look at the old calendars and see our library story times and play dates and whatnot.
And then I’ll be all sad. I can’t wait. Sniff.
Sorry, I used an incorrect example. I’m actually using a beautiful “Gustav Klimt” calendar from 2002, which DID begin on a Tuesday.
And I don’t write appointments on my wall calendars. The computer’s for that.
If you don’t write anything on it, why do you have one?
I chop my old calendar up every year to make nifty-lookin’ bookmarks. So I have new bookmarks every year too.
People still have actual hang-on-the-wall calendars?
Yes, I have an actual, hang-on-the-wall calendar.
Not because I wanted one–but because it was the only thing my brother, his wife, and their two daughters could be bothered to buy me for Christmas.
Seriously annoys me, since any one of their gifts was more expensive–and had more thought put into it–and most had way more time put in as well.
Add that to Christmas Holiday planning in Mid-December–too late for me to get time off–and Aunt Eureka is NOT a happy camper.
My mother has an actual hang on the wall calendar because she uses it–and then keeps it as a scrap book.
Sure, who the hell wants to switch on the computer to see what they have to do? Plus who the hell would ever be organised enough to sync their calendars with other members of the family? It hangs in the kitchen so anyone can see what’s on when.
I love choosing new calendars every year, both wall and page-a-day. (I currently have five of the former, two of the latter.) I also generally ask for them as gifts.
I buy four calendars every year:
(1) My desk calendar. Plain business-style, no pictures, At-A-Glance fake croc cover. Each spread is an entire month. This is the planning calendar, where appointments, events, deadlines, etc., go. Most of the time it’s tucked out of sight, but within easy reach. I file these away every year; they come in handy when trying to remember what happened when 8 years ago.
(2) Mini wall calendar, for glancing while at my desk. Last several years it’s been English springer spaniel puppies, but I can’t find one for 2013. Wah!!
(3) Page-a-Day calendar. Just for decoration (usually 365 Dogs a Year) and also serves as scrap paper for notes and lists. This year a friend gave me a different Page-a-Day calendar that isn’t really my style; I may put that one elsewhere and still get me a dog calendar (they’re on sale now!).
(4) Large 365 Puppies-a-Year calendar for the fridge. Just for fun. Yes, we are a bit dog crazy. We always go through this calendar looking for springers. One of our current springers was in it in 2002. 
And Mr. S buys his own pocket calendar for his own work schedule, etc.
Actually I have three. Since I work at home, alone, and sometimes go several days without having actual events or appointments on my schedule, it’s not unusual for me to not know what day it is. I sometimes know the date, but not the day of the week, or vice versa. I have the calendars to avoid having to run to the computer to find out.
I save calendars from past years for the pictures. I get a Birds and Blooms calendar from my mother, and a Just Dachshunds calendar for myself. But I don’t reuse them, just have them stacked away.
I will reuse on calendar in 2013 however. In early 2002 my grandmother moved into a nursing home. For as long as I can remember she had a printed cotton calendar that hung in her kitchen. She bought one for 2002, but only had it for a few days. I took it home. This year the days of the week will match up. I’ve had it hanging in one of my rooms since I got it, but this year I can use it. Grandma died only a few weeks ago, I wish I could tell her.
Sorry about your Grandmother Baker. That’s really sweet.
Yes. The one at work is one I make every year of the best kid pix. Pictures are a year old, but they are constantly being updated, unlike my coworker who has an almost-ten-year-old picture in a frame on his desk; the child who is pictured in a diaper is now almost a teenager. These are not written in & are kept because of the pictures.
The one at home is a freebie I pick up somewhere & it used to record training mileage. It’s folded in half so I don’t even see the picture. It is also kept, but only to compare where I am this year as opposed to last year; in other words, it’s a cheap diary.
My BIL keeps & reuses old calendars. I believe it’s 12 that will give you a full set for something like 200 years because in that period the leap years never begin on two days (though I don’t know which two they are.)
We get a family calendar printed each year with photos from the past 12 months, and give them as gifts at Xmas (to family only, obviously, we’re not that vain!). We use our copy as the main calendar hanging in the kitchen on which appointments etc are written, but we keep the written-over ones at the end of each year for the photos.