What sort of calendar do you use?

[liriodendron]

I sat down last night and began the somewhat arduous search (online) for my 2012 calendar. I wish there was some way to limit my search to engagement calendars with a nice photo for each week, a week that begins with Monday and puts the weekend together at the bottom of the page, and gives the entire calendar page over for writing engagements within the little rectangles (I do not need a column for notes off to the side). It would also be nice to be able to limit the search by size, price range, and type of calendar. Sadly, calendars.com doesn't give me all of those options.

Instead what I do is to scan each of the 43 pages of engagement calendars, open a separate tab with any that seem to be the right size (I don't want a pocket planner) and have a nice theme (I'm partial to nature, architecture, art, and Kliban cats), click on the photo of one of the inner pages, and try to determine whether or not the week begins with Monday. At the moment I've gone through about half the pages and have at least 20 tabs open with potential calendars. My goal is to order one now so that I actually have it before the beginning of the new year. We'll see if that happens.

In the past I've gotten the Sierra Club or Audubon calendars (consistently laid out in the manner I'd prefer, plus they are good causes - I've bought a lot of these), the Kliban cat one (multiple times), Gaudi, one with Arctic scenery (did NOT have a photo for each week, but otherwise was quite nice), and one with nice folk art. This year I'm leaning towards one with hearts (here's a website that explains the hearts) www.mondayheartsformadalene.com/

So, does anyone else go through this every year? If not, what do you do - buy one of those black planners? Use the free wall calendar from the bank? Wing it?

(Oh, and I also need to buy a smallish wall calendar for the bulletin board in the kitchen. I don't actually write anything on this, it's simply to know the date. Last year I had one with nice photos of Nova Scotia. I haven't even begun searching for that one yet.)

[BoatBabe]

At home I use the free wall calendar from my bank.


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At work I use the free wall calendar from my bank, plus the free desk calendar from a local real estate agency.




What I'm looking for is a purse-sized calendar where I can list the stuff from the home calendar AND the stuff from the work calendar, so I'm not completely unaware when not at home or at work.








It has become a problem.

[liriodendron]

Still looking...

Who in their right mind would actually purchase the Big Butts Engagement Calendar? I mean, I carry my calendar to work with me!

[gailkate]

We have a desk drawer that fills up with calendars from charities we donate to. We decide which we'll keep - usually a total of 3 that are animal/children themed - and give the rest away. We only need a 1-inch square per day as it's mostly for dentist appts. What a change from the years when my calendar was a 5th appendage.

[gailkate]

Nov 6, 2011 18:49:46 GMT -5 liriodendron said:

Still looking...

Who in their right mind would actually purchase the Big Butts Engagement Calendar? I mean, I carry my calendar to work with me!

Missed this - what a hoot!

[Nomad-wino]

Sometimes I make my own calenders using Microsoft word templates.

www.wincalendar.com/word-calendar-templates.htm

Mike

[joew]

Well, there's the pocket calendar from the savings bank, there's the big wall calendar in the kitchen (some years it's had pictures of the Red Sox — gift from my brother — other years it's been scenery — this year and last year Ireland), for my bedroom preferably castles, cats in the guest room my kid brother and sister-in-law use, Japanese art in the other guest room, my i-calendar on my computer, and a two-page-a-day Franklin planner. Oh, and the two-page-a-month loose leaf Franklin calendar on which I record daily high, low, and bedtime temperatures. Not to forget the small brass perpetual calendar which my grandfather had when I was a boy — it has a three-sided frame with thirteen ivory cards; six have the days of the months on them (turn January upside down and you get February), and seven smaller ones which go in front of the month cards each with a thirty-one day format beginning with a different day of the week.

I often buy the wall calendars after Christmas, when I know what, if anything, my big brother got for me, and they're cheaper. And after New Year's is better still in terms of price. You can go a couple of days without a wall calendar.

[doctork]

I use a Day-Timer, pocket size (a little bigger than a 3 X 5" index card), two pages per day, wire bound, and have done so for decades. I have a "little black book" that is the wallet that holds the Day Timer calendar books. It also hold all the usual wallet stuff in two zippered pockets, and it has a shoulder strap so I can carry it like a small purse.

Because there are two pages per day, I have plenty of room for taking notes at meetings (there are some empty "Notes" pages at the end in case I need to take a lot of notes). I also write any financial notes I need for tax records. Now the IRS wants receipts for everything, so I clip those in the back of the book for later reference.

OTOH, even though the little black book can serve as a purse, because of the airline restrictions of two carry-on items, I put the little black book into my backpack when I board so that I have my 20 or 22 inch rollaboard to carry my clothes and stuff. That way I almost never need to check bags, no waiting at the baggage carrousel.

The Day Timer set comes with a pocket calendar also index-card size, so I can plan ahead for 18 months or so.

I also have wall calendars with nice pictures - always one with pretty western Washington photos from our credit union there, and then other miscellaneous ones that show up - this year was one with fotos of my FlyerTalk friends done as a fund raiser for a Continental charity. I also had a small just-a-little-bigger than pocket size calendar with photos of old Paris, circa late-1800's that I bought on sale in January. However, I wasn't really using that, and one of my patients needed a calendar so I gave that one to her.

But the wall calendar I use the most is one that was in the Navajo Times. It is the size of a full sheet of newsprint and it has the whole year at a glance on it. I keep it on the wall right by my desk for quick reference. The names of the month are in both Navajo and English.

[jspnrvr]

My life is pretty routine so I don't need an "organizer", though I do get a pocket "DayMinder" for jotting, tucking in the various Hotel Cards I have these days, keeping passwords, etc. There is a calendar with monthly orientation schedules on our company website that I'll print out to keep track of when I'm supposed to be where.

Our refrigerator calendar is usually one my wife gets from her Fed Employees retirement group, lots of nice landscapes, etc. We have a big flat Office Max desk calendar for keeping on the table where bill paying and so on is done.

Over my desk and computer I have a calendar from a local drugstore in Okeechobee that features a different Norman Rockwell illustration every month.

Then, just for fun, I print one of these out every year:

theendoftheuniverse.ca/node/1912

[gailkate]

Hmm. 2011 seemed to be a very good year for misogyny.

[liriodendron]

Well, I finally chose one. Actually two. I bought an engagement calendar with lovely photos of Inuit art and a small wall calendar with photos of interesting European windows to hang on the bulletin board in the kitchen. I guess I'm all set for 2012 now.

[doctork]

Congratulations! On being ready for 2012. I am not sure I am ready yet for 2011.

I have received 2 wall calendars so far - one from my undergrad alma mater with photos from the campus, one at the Albertson's pharmacy with all kinds of healthy stuff.

We usually get one from our bank in Bellingham too - always has the prettiest pictures. Probably will arrive soon at my PO Box!

I need to re-order my Day Timer too.