Your mental/paper calendar?

[Freedom]

Do you have a 'mental' calendar? Yes, but it is getting more and more faulty, each year.

Are there dates you alway remember/observe? Sure, the big stuff! Christmas, Thanksgiving, my birthday, my Mum's and Dad's birthday (even tho' Mum's been gone 16+ years)

Do you have problems remembering some dates? Definitely. For some reason, my BFF's birthday is one I never can remember!

Do you keep a paper calendar where you do make notes of dates?First I have a Calendar Guide Book. It lists each date through the year. You enter recurring events: birthdays, anniversaries, things like that.

Each December, when I get the new wall calendar for the following year, I set and go through entering all of these on the wall calendar.


Wall or pocket? The wall calendar has those big 1 inch square boxes to enter things. That is in the kitchen. I also carry a small planner in my handbag. That is used to make appts: doctor, dentist, etc. or Dad and me, and the 14 pets. I have to make sure I keep the 2 in synch!


Where does it live? see above.

Where do you get your yearly calendars? The pocket planner-- I buy every other year. It must be a certain brand which has space at the back for phone numbers. I only list a few, but they are key: AAA (with my ID number as I can never locate my card), one of Dad's key doctor's, a few others.

The wall calendar is always animal related. Often I get 2 or 3 rescue calendars in the mail. Last year I bought a bichon one or the first time.

Do you hang the calendars that you get at your local stores/markets/businesses? To my knowledge, no one around here gives them anymore!
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[cassiesmom]

Do you have a 'mental' calendar? Yes, but it's always two days behind.

Are there dates you always remember/observe? Family members' and friends' birthdays and anniversaries, Cassie's Gotcha Day in February, and a couple of others that are sentimental to me.

Do you have problems remembering some dates? No, I've been on so few lately that they're all pretty memorable. I've tried to make my college roommate's husband's birthday three days later than it actually is every year since I've known him ... I've almost always gotten my nephew's birthday two days ahead. I have a mental block on those two for some reason.

Do you keep a paper calendar where you do make notes of dates? I have a calendar in the kitchen, one in the bedroom, and I actually have two at work. I have a wall calendar on the pin board above my desk, and there was a page-a-day calendar on the desk when I started. The problem is that I have some things written on the calendar at home, and some on the one at work. They never quite match up!

Wall or pocket? A wall calendar.

Where does it live? Right above the phone in the kitchen, and on the left-hand side of my pin board at work.

Where do you get your yearly calendars? From the bookstore, Dollar Tree, or amazon.com. Sometimes from a charity I have given money to.

Do you hang the calendars that you get at your local stores/markets/businesses? I haven't been fortunate enough to get one!

Please add your customs or traditions on how you keep track of the year. Every December, when I get the following year's calendar, I go through and write in everyone's birthdays, anniversaries, and dates I need to keep track of. That doubles as a "count my blessings" opportunity. Facebook and the Pet Talk calendar also remind me of birthdays, which helps a lot!