Hi Laura!!! I still use wall calendars!!! My favorite artist is John Sloane. I have his country calendar hanging in my kitchen year after year. I don't write on it. It's too pretty!!! Haha. I also have the monthly planner that I do write on and a pocket planner. Linda Nelson Shanks, Mary Singleton and Susan Winget are two other artists that I like. I see the calendar as a work of art. I even have a frame that the calendar slides into. They will always be a part of my life as long as they keep creating them with their beautiful drawings.
Love what you did w/your grandmother's tea towels. Those are beautiful. I have a wall calendar and every year when I buy one I lament the freebies we used to get from the bank or realtors. Mine is plain w/no fancy photo, mostly for space purposes. I remember using the pages with photos on them as wrapping paper for small gifts. This year, instead of buying a planner I am experimenting with using a $1 spiral notebook. I write the days of the week on the left and my to do list and shopping list on the right. So far so good. However, I don't have a ton of things on my agenda.
I still actually use my mom’s old calendar tea towels to dry my dishes! As for calendars, I use both—a monthly paper planner to track editorial content and submission deadlines, and the Google Calendar on my phone. I believe digital and analog can coexist.
I love wall calendars! Both for decorative and utility purposes. I fondly remember making cloth gift calendars for my son's grandparents. Now I make calendars for us and our pup's human brother using her pix of the past year, and I also have a calendar specific to her breed because they are so beautiful 🐾
Hi Laura, yes I have fond memories of tea towel calendars. My mom or grandmother didn’t have them but I did. I never knew what to do with them but gave them to my mom or grandmother and they used them as tea towels. I have many paper calendars. One is on the wall in the kitchen for family stuff. One is in my bedroom that is just a reminder of what day it is. Old brain helpers. One is on the wall over my desk and then I have a planner plus my phone! I think I have an abundance. Lol. I use to love calendars from Lane publishing. Every year I’d go to the stationary store to pick out one what was full of flowers or cozy cottages.
I might have too many but they work and I like the designs of them. I’ve bought calendars from Anne also. With my old eyes I need big squares with big numbers now.
I think I will work at cutting back on them just to have some wall space and try to manage with my planner and phone.
Thank you for your writing. I am always looking for your next post.
You are a calendar connoisseur & collector, Aleta. Do you save your past calendars as documentation of your life? I’ve started doing that with my planners but I’ve never done it with the wall calendars.
I don't save them. I use to when I worked for Hallmark. But it was more of a CYA kind of thing incase someone doubted my store calls. Now I almost throughout with glee that ther year is over and time to move one. I'd used them like a journal once, but I don't have time for that. My little notebook sits by my bed and I am either too tired or are too busy to write. I keep saying tomorrow.
I'm firmly analog when it comes to calendars! I have a big one for my business that I hang on the wall of my studio and also some planning calendar pages in a binder with all of my projects. I also have a couple of wall calendars to keep track in other areas of the house. My husband's work schedule is digital and I'm a member of a cooperative gallery and our schedule is on Google Calendar, so I can't be entirely analog, but digital and analog can definitely coexist!
It used to be a ritual of mine, choosing a calendar for me and for the boys. They always had one in their rooms in Calgary, and it would take me FOREVER to choose one - depending on what they were into that year, etc. And then I would choose one that would go beside our computer desk and it was such a big deal because I wanted it to really REFLECT MY LIFE which is a lot to ask from a calendar. Then we moved here and there wasn't really a spot for a calendar and I just never hung one again. My mom gave me a calendar for Christmas in 2023, and I just used it flat on my desk to record my word count. So I never use a wall calendar, although I have a paper planner that lives in my kitchen and has everything in it.
Our calendar hangs on the coat closet door in the kitchen, near the door to the garage. This year it is the animal rescue one from Best Friends, a gift to members. Previously, it was the Sierra Club calendar, but we didn't get one from them this year. We usually get two or three from the various non-profits we donate to.
Hi Laura!!! I still use wall calendars!!! My favorite artist is John Sloane. I have his country calendar hanging in my kitchen year after year. I don't write on it. It's too pretty!!! Haha. I also have the monthly planner that I do write on and a pocket planner. Linda Nelson Shanks, Mary Singleton and Susan Winget are two other artists that I like. I see the calendar as a work of art. I even have a frame that the calendar slides into. They will always be a part of my life as long as they keep creating them with their beautiful drawings.
Nice to meet a kindred spirit. I have a paper planner that sits on my desk too. I agree-wall calendars are like artwork.
Love what you did w/your grandmother's tea towels. Those are beautiful. I have a wall calendar and every year when I buy one I lament the freebies we used to get from the bank or realtors. Mine is plain w/no fancy photo, mostly for space purposes. I remember using the pages with photos on them as wrapping paper for small gifts. This year, instead of buying a planner I am experimenting with using a $1 spiral notebook. I write the days of the week on the left and my to do list and shopping list on the right. So far so good. However, I don't have a ton of things on my agenda.
I love having my grandmother's tea towels on display in the pillows. I gave her the tote bag before she died and she loved it. Now my mom uses it.
I still actually use my mom’s old calendar tea towels to dry my dishes! As for calendars, I use both—a monthly paper planner to track editorial content and submission deadlines, and the Google Calendar on my phone. I believe digital and analog can coexist.
I think they can co-exist too. How cool that you use your mom’s old calendar tea towels!
I love wall calendars! Both for decorative and utility purposes. I fondly remember making cloth gift calendars for my son's grandparents. Now I make calendars for us and our pup's human brother using her pix of the past year, and I also have a calendar specific to her breed because they are so beautiful 🐾
I bet those calendars with your pup are darling!
Hi Laura, yes I have fond memories of tea towel calendars. My mom or grandmother didn’t have them but I did. I never knew what to do with them but gave them to my mom or grandmother and they used them as tea towels. I have many paper calendars. One is on the wall in the kitchen for family stuff. One is in my bedroom that is just a reminder of what day it is. Old brain helpers. One is on the wall over my desk and then I have a planner plus my phone! I think I have an abundance. Lol. I use to love calendars from Lane publishing. Every year I’d go to the stationary store to pick out one what was full of flowers or cozy cottages.
I might have too many but they work and I like the designs of them. I’ve bought calendars from Anne also. With my old eyes I need big squares with big numbers now.
I think I will work at cutting back on them just to have some wall space and try to manage with my planner and phone.
Thank you for your writing. I am always looking for your next post.
You are a calendar connoisseur & collector, Aleta. Do you save your past calendars as documentation of your life? I’ve started doing that with my planners but I’ve never done it with the wall calendars.
I don't save them. I use to when I worked for Hallmark. But it was more of a CYA kind of thing incase someone doubted my store calls. Now I almost throughout with glee that ther year is over and time to move one. I'd used them like a journal once, but I don't have time for that. My little notebook sits by my bed and I am either too tired or are too busy to write. I keep saying tomorrow.
I love that you say you throw the old ones out with glee that the year is over and that it's time to move on.
I'm firmly analog when it comes to calendars! I have a big one for my business that I hang on the wall of my studio and also some planning calendar pages in a binder with all of my projects. I also have a couple of wall calendars to keep track in other areas of the house. My husband's work schedule is digital and I'm a member of a cooperative gallery and our schedule is on Google Calendar, so I can't be entirely analog, but digital and analog can definitely coexist!
It used to be a ritual of mine, choosing a calendar for me and for the boys. They always had one in their rooms in Calgary, and it would take me FOREVER to choose one - depending on what they were into that year, etc. And then I would choose one that would go beside our computer desk and it was such a big deal because I wanted it to really REFLECT MY LIFE which is a lot to ask from a calendar. Then we moved here and there wasn't really a spot for a calendar and I just never hung one again. My mom gave me a calendar for Christmas in 2023, and I just used it flat on my desk to record my word count. So I never use a wall calendar, although I have a paper planner that lives in my kitchen and has everything in it.
Our calendar hangs on the coat closet door in the kitchen, near the door to the garage. This year it is the animal rescue one from Best Friends, a gift to members. Previously, it was the Sierra Club calendar, but we didn't get one from them this year. We usually get two or three from the various non-profits we donate to.
Oh! I love the Best Friends organization. It's such a worthy cause.
We've been members ever since we toured the Animal Sanctuary outside of Kanab, Utah.