I have a wall calendar in my home office. Every year I buy the 'Reading Woman' calendar and enjoy both the monthly paintings and the ability to take in my schedule for the month at a glance. https://www.calendars.com/shop/reading-woman-2022-wall-calendar/202200000842

I have been known to print out a calendar portion and tape it to the old one.

So yes, that's recycling!

Bookwoman, that is a lovely calendar!

Back in the BC days (before children) I splurged on beautiful calendars. Then the kids came along and I started using the calendars to jot down all the various schedules for the 5 people in the house.

That's when I started using larger calendars - no art, no pretty pictures, just lines - purely functional.

But I do save them for a few years because it comes in handy when I need to recall the date something happened.

This is what I use and it's in the kitchen on a counter next to the fridge, the phone and a notepad.

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What a great idea! Unfortunately my kitchen wall calendar is my master scheduler (I am my mom) and the days' boxes need to be empty and ready to go each new year.

Lars, I do the same for the framed calendar I keep on the kitchen counter. I have a collection of various 5x7 desk calendars and keep track of when they can be reused. Last year I reused one from 2010 and this year I'm reusing the one from 2011. Both are from Catherine Breer's collection.

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Great idea! But no I but new ones every year.

I used to like spiral bound calendars with month-at-a-glance spreads, but I always wrote on them, so I couldn't recycle them. Well, I guess I could have by using a different colored ink for different years, but I didn't do that. I only use my iPad calendar now and keep it synchronized with my phone.

@Bunny i must be your mom too! 😂 i use a wall calendar and it hangs on the inside of the pantry door. i also use a dayplanner type calendar. I do recycle them vs trash, but i dont reuse them.

Tina Marie, her name was Dorothy (aka Dot) and she had oodles of meetings, parties, clubs, etc. on her wall calendar and it kept her organized and always on time.. I need to be able to see it without having to access a device. My kitchen is my center of operations and that's where my calendar (365 Kittens a Year) needs to be.

I loved my art and photo calendars, but once the kids started preschool, i needed more room to write enough, and large enough, that I could see it from a few feet away. So this has been my calendar for the past 25 years:

It’s big, 24”x16”, the squares are 2 1/4 x 4”. Saturday and Sunday are each their own day. Lots of blank space for notes, jotting an address or reminder etc.

My gripes: I know what year it is all year long. If they left off the year, there’d be more room to write. And, it’s a shame that sometimes a month ends with a couple of extra days, but don’t give them short shrift! I once saw a calendar that included the next month’s dates to fill out the week. Honestly, a lot of us plan by the week, no matter if the month changes in the middle. It’s nice to be able to write those activities in on a big square. And no problem repeating them when you flip the page to the new month.

Well, now that we are only 3 at home, and soon to be 2, I still use this calendar. DH knows what I have planned, and reminds me if I haven’t gotten up and my hair appointment is in an hour. And everyone can see at a glance when we are going to see Granny.

I keep them, to see when we last had the furnace done, or someone saw the dentist (longer ago than they thought!) etc.

The calendar is a lot less full than it used to be, not just Covid but because life changes, but my eyesight has changed, too, so I still like the big squares for different reasons lol.

I used a Day-Timer for years in addition to a pretty wall calendar. Then they changed formats, and no longer had days without times and lines. A parent isn’t always bound by discrete times, sometimes an activity is ”after nap” lol!

We had music teachers complain that their planners squeezed the weekend into one column, or after-5:00 into a smaller chunk, when that is when most of their work happened.

Digital is always an option, but I like seeing that something changed (crossed out, etc), and the whole family can see who is doing what while they have their morning breakfast.

I use a big wall callendar, new every year. All kids, grands and great grands birthdays go on it as well siblings. Also all appointments. The kids know if they want to plan something they check the calendar. My saying is if it isn't on the calendar it doesn't happen!

I use a cheap large academic calendar one because kidz and we write on it so nope--no recycling (except for the recycling bin kind of recycling).

I use a day planner because I like to write things down. I've tried using my phone calendar and other electronic calendars, but I don't care for them.

Lars, that's a really great idea, and I love the fact you get to enjoy them multiple years.

Having my life on a kitchen wall calendar, it can sometimes be hard to schedule something if I'm away from home. So I often take photos of this month and next to look at when everyone else is looking at their phone calendars. I remain resolutely old school on this.

I carry a small Moleskine calendar in my bag, and keep that coordinated with my wall calendar. I find entering things by hand is much faster than using my phone, so I'm resolutely old-school as well!

That's a great idea. I don't use wall calendars anymore but I used to and I always hated to throw them away. I never thought about the idea they could be reused at some point. I have everything on the Google calendar now which works great for me. I always have my calendar with me, it's easy to change and I can put things on DH's G-calendar as well.

I remember when I used to have a wall calendar, a franklin planner and another small calendar book in my purse. I still have all those little purse calendars - funny to see what went on in my life back then and also kind of funny compared to the calendar I use now. Makes me feel like a dinosaur.....

My brother and I both use Google Calendar, and so we both know when we have appointments. I found this easy to use, and I can access it from my desktop in L.A., my laptop (which I use in Cathedral City), and my phone.

At work, I used to use Outlook calendar on my computer there, but I also had a very large wall calendar that I would write on, so that I could see at a glance what I had scheduled, without needed to look in Outlook.

Lars, I've never thought of doing that! I use my calendars for appts, etc. so mine are kept only to look back at what happened.

I have both a wall calendar and a smaller monthly calendar. My wall calendar is always garden related. I write down all the birthdays on it but mostly i like being able to glance at it and see the date. At the eginning of the year it is my ritual to copy the dates from the old one to the new one. Last years calendar goes in the paper recycling.

I did save some big wall calendars from when my kids were young. I like to look back at how jam packed myndays were back then. Being a stay at home mom is a very busy lifestyle.

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Yes, for years I have used these Linnea 11x14 poster calendars in my kitchen. It’s my changeable art. My mother started giving these to me, and when she passed away, my DD started giving them to me at Christmas. I display 2 at a time in clear acrylic frames so they are easy to change.

It has been tempting to keep them as I have loved many of the designs. I slightly preferred the original artist (the mother of the current artist) but the daughter has improved her designs with time.

When I worked! I kept a yearly month-at-a-glance planner I carried everywhere. Now I keep appointments on my electronic devices and have a few appointment cards clipped together as backup.

Ooh, outside, those are wonderful!

dedtired, I just sent to recycling some old calendars, and just looking at them made me wistful for those structured busy days, and tired too!

I have the same annual ritual as dedtired (we must be related). When my new calendar arrives I transfer all the significant dates. I've been doing that for decades and I honestly don't know if I could face the new year if I neglected that little custom.

I'm still a 'paper person' at heart.

I also carry one of Hallmark's little freebie calendars in my purse for quick reference - they're rather nondescript so every year I pick one of my photos to print and tape it to the cover.

This is my current one - it's a little larger than a 3x5 card.

I make a photo wall calendar to hang inside the linen closet. It's easy to transfer dates I want to remember since they're stored at Snapfish or Shutterfly and they're on the previous year's calendar.

No, I had to go electronic when we had 3 kids in 3 different schools, and each child with their own sports schedules. I only made it through because of color coding.

I would save the prettiest wall calendar photos, and put them in front of the treadmill I kept in the basement. Something to look at while I treaded. (The thing was noisy, so I didn't have any urge to listen to music, and I jostled around on it too much so that reading was going to be impossible.) Having those really neat calendar photos up there - usually photos from nature, or wildlife - I was content.

Lars, I never realized how calendar dates lined up in five or six years!

I use them, but only ones sent me. I write appointments, birthdays etc

We also have Google calendar. DH is more diligent with it than me.

One good thing about my Dalí calendar is that the only place the year show is on the cover of the calendar - it is not repeated on the month displays. It does show the names of the month and days of the week in English, French, and German (which is not necessary for me), and I'm okay with that, even though it takes up extra space.

I've been reusing calendars since 1990, and I started doing it because I had collected a few that I especially liked. I never wrote anything on the art or photo calendars. It did save me a bit of money during some lean years as well. In 1990, spending $20 on a calendar seemed like a significant investment to me for some reason. Anyway, I'm glad I've kept the calendars that I did, and they really take up very little space when stored on a bookshelf, as I have them now.

Maire Cate, i forgot about the Hallmark freebies. I always used them! I will have to keep my eye out for them. Thanks for mentioning them.

I recycle old calendars by cutting out the pictures and using them as greeting cards. the rest goes in the paper recycling bin.

I also get a few free calendars from Audubon, etc, which I never use. those go into the Little Free Library down the street and people always take them right away.

I don't even buy new wall calendars anymore. I prefer my computer-- especially since I can do keyword searches and find out when a previous event happened.