December 29, 2016

  • Looking at Calendars

    Every year I am torn between using a cute calendar, an art calendar, a religious calendar or a planning calendar. I have a perpetual calendar for my desk at work. It is nice with an inspirational message daily. The drawbacks are that it doesn't have the days of the week nor does it identify holidays. In years past, I would get calendars mailed to me from various companies vying for my business. I would get them from pet food companies and pharmaceutical companies. Some of them had art work others had photographs. I hung them up and when the year ended I'd cut out the pictures to use in teaching or on bulletin boards. Now I only get one in the mail and I have to "opt in" to get it. Sadly it is not very flashy so I'm looking for a better one. For the last couple of years Sparky and I have used the calendars they give away at church - sponsored by competing funeral homes. I put a calendar on my Christmas list. Sparky came through with a perfect calendar for the kitchen. It has lots of space to write in appointments and birthdays. It came with stickers to note vacations, doctor's appointments, anniversaries and weddings, and even when daylight savings time starts and ends!

    This year I'm not going to wait until February to try to find that special calendar for my office. Nope. This time I'm going to be proactive. I am actively going to find one while on vacation. There are some crazy neat places in Atlanta and Pensacola. Surely there will be a calendar that strikes my fancy... So inquiring minds want to know. What kind of calendar did you have this year and what are you getting for 2017?

Comments (20)

  • So you're migrating from the cold north too? It's nice to escape the cold even if it's only a short time! Have fun!

    • It is a nice way to get a reprieve from winter. I'm so glad the weather is warm here. The last time we were in Pensacola it was very cold - nearly freezing temps. We were only able to go to the beach for a few minutes before we got too cold in our light jackets!

  • Calendars, I love them! 2016 Kitchen has a small one with kittens, (2017) Audobon Avian is the main one for appt's. etc. hangs outside kitchen and in the office are two. One by the desk,(kittens, came from Feed Store-free 2016) one on the closet door. (a freebie American Legion 2016) and another "America Backroads" from WalMart probably, hangs in the bedroom by the phone. Love the pictures so much I don't want to put it in recycle.

    2017 small kittens for kitchen, another beautiful American Legions,in fact 2, freebie Security Service CU, freebie Landscapes of America Wounded Warriors. I refuse to rejoin them so I get a calendar. No idea how I got 2 different from American Legion, hubby is a member.

    I wanted another Gary Patterson but refused to pay $14 plus $7 shipping. This years I found at WalMart or Target but none for 2017.

    I like sturdy spiral bound but those are hard to find now.

    Hubby thinks I'm nuts so it is a good thing for all the free ones. Daughter uses her phone as I suppose so many do. Wall calendars a thing of the past?

  • I use my college sheduler but for the home, e ordered a dog calendar from a dog rescue fund raiser.

  • My mom used to contribute to so many different charities that she got loads of calendars every year. This year I gave away calendars like crazy to anyone who would take them. There were at least 40 of them. The one I kept has pretty scenery and a short Bible verse for each month. I also have a small calendar from Water for Good.

    • You can't go wrong with free calendars! I have been looking but calendars aren't in abundance in any of the beach shops...

  • I use the perpetual one from Thrivent but will get some freebies too. I liked some of the drugstore and bank free ones in years past & hard to throw away so would cut out and save the photos.

    • I have 2 different ones from Thrivent - actually one from AAL and one from Thrivent. I swithch off between the two at work. I often need the inspirational quotes - at work.

  • This past year I used my phone calendar, and two booklet ones, one to track things that made me happy each day (to retread on more troublesome days), and one that was supposed to track my weight and food intake, which I did well with the first half of the year, and then I sort of derailed.

    My parents always got a free one from their oil company with Norman Rockwell artwork on them. They would hang it on their fridge.

    • The calendar is the brain of our social life - if it isn't on the calendar it isn't going to happen! At work I use my Google calendar which is indispensable.

  • I passed up 2 with Norman Rockwell paintings at drugstores. Also my insurance Co. has beach and scenery ones. Want me to get you one?

  • You did't mention size -- if 8-1/2 x 11" works and you'd like a copy of my calendars (see my early December post), let me know and i'll order one for you.

  • Every year I get a German Shepherd calendar, usually puppies. But this year the one with adults had better pictures, and one or two months have a grown dog with a young one, so i got the best of both worlds.

  • Val, What type of calendar did you end up choosing? There are so many choices.

    • I picked up a calendar of sunset photos but is pales in comparison to the athletic cows in the Chick-fil-a calendar! I think I'll gift the sunsets to the receptionist at work and just use the cows instead!!

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