Filling in my new calendar

17 years ago

Today I will transfer all the special dates I have marked on my 2008 calendar and put them on my 2009 calendar...birthdays, anniversaries, some medical notes, January appts., etc. (I also keep track of people's ages on their birthdates. I tend to forget how old my kids and grandkids are...and sometimes, me and DH...LOL! Oh, and the years of marriage for all of us.)

Looking through the old calendar is always fun...lots of reminders of what was going on and where we went or where the kids went and we kept the dogs.

Do you keep track like this?

Leslie/KS

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grammahony
17 years ago
Yes, I do that too. I have one on the refrigerator, and one on my file cabinet here by the computer, and one in my purse. But I need to get 2 new ones. I know I have one here somewhere in the house, but can't seem to find it. So if I go buy a new one, I'll find it.
Leslie
evatx
17 years ago
I do the same, Leslie. I use the calendar as my "diary" throughout the year, then copy dates over to the new one.
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Toni S
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Have too. Started a month ago putting in the kids sports, dance, appointments, my work days, birthdays etc. It's already way to busy but I keep telling myself that will change in 7 or 8 years and all the kids are out of High school. If my calender was misplaced I would be soooo lost.
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Thank goodness for my calander! :)
barbara3
17 years ago
Me too. It is a great memory aid - I look ahead a couple of weeks and then get the appropriate cards in the mail in time for people to receive them for their special day. It certainly helps to keep me organized.
dotmom
17 years ago
Oh, My, yes...I would be in a pickle if I didn't do this, and I always put in ages on B'days and years married on the anniversaries. Then I "relive" the past past by reading the old calendar, shedding a few tears over some sad things that happened. Getting a few smiles from some of the happy times. Dottie
cynic
17 years ago
I used to use paper but now I use the computer. Great reminder programs and a good calendar program keep me on top of things. Especially things like recycling being every other week. And a quick look and I know the day and the date. I don't always wear a watch anymore like I used to have on all the time. Plus I don't have to transfer and risk missing something. So I remember birthdays, anniversaries and miniscule little things like paying bills and taxes! Just have to back up occasionally and all is well.
Mystical Manns
17 years ago
I've been using my computer for all of this stuff for several years now ... but this year I'm moving back to paper.

Computer hard drive died, and the flash drive I had been using to backup my information also failed. So I lost everything. Addresses, birthdates, everything. Except for the KT Christmas card exchange list, I had to wait and receive cards before I could send any back!

There's nothing like having a paper copy.
gazania_gw
17 years ago
I design and print out calendars for this purpose. One goes on the fridge with a magnetic strip and the other on the side of the filing cabinet beside the computer desk. The calendar for 2009 was ready in September so that I could keep track of mine and DH's doctor appointments. Some of those appts. are made a year ahead. On the back of each calendar I add a sheet that has all 12 months on it. I circle the date of an appointment in red on it so that I can see at a glance what I need to avoid when making future appointments without having to page through all 12 months while trying to write and hold the phone at the same time.
minnie_tx
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I have all my old calendars. And really wish I had written more intelligible in them I just looked at a 1995 one to see when I brought the parking lot cats in to stay with me forever. Mommy is the only one left and couldn't remember how old she was I added a year to howlong I've had her. I recently went back to a 2003 one to see when I replaced the coil in my oven/I too keep track of birthdays etc. I resolve to do a better job of writing this year. I keep a separate one now for when the lawn was mowed and drains cleaned out etc. and computer cleanups. I plan to have four sep ones for 2009
Linda Wayman
17 years ago
My claender is my lifeline to everything I do or need to do.

I bought myself another Mary Engelbreit calendar this year as a Christmas gift from dh to me. He wants a Ghost Airplane calendar every year. He's used those for a lot of years. Along with my ME calendar I was given another one with pictures of Chicago on it. I'll keep it in the craft room.

I haven't been in a Hallmark store this year, but I was wondering if they had any of those small calendar books they used to have every year. I didn't know if the economy affected them enough to do away with them.

Linda
justlinda
17 years ago
Oh my goodness, I had forgotten about those small calendar books by Hallmark. I so used to look forward to them every year, but haven't seen any since I can't remember when, lol.

Yup, bet the economy was to blame for their disappearance.

Thanks for the memory jog though!
taigen_gw
17 years ago
I have my purse calendar but we also have the large desk calendar that I put magnets on and it is on the fridge. Every year on New Years day I put all the important phone numbers on the very back inside cover, put hubbies work schedule on, put the garbage/composte pickups on and everyone's birthdays / anniversaries. I have an "ongoing" document in "word" with all the names, dates etc. and I just print it off.
OklaMoni
17 years ago
Yes, Leslie I do the same. But I no longer put the ages of people in my calendar, I just use the birth year. That way, I can't forget to change the age one year. :)

Moni
gazania_gw
17 years ago
Yes, Hallmark had the calender books this year. I would imagine that they are all gone by now. I picked one up a week or so after Thanksgiving. I asked for one of the wallet sized ones that they used to have, but they were all gone then.
glenda_al
17 years ago
I use my computer REMINDER
lydia1959
17 years ago
I do the same thing.

I found some of the old Virginia Slim datebooks that I wrote in when I was a young adult.. reading those were very interesting!

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