what is the best calendar ever

ModestyBCatt — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 06:54:11 -0800

It's coming up to the end of the year, the traditional time for getting a new calendar. How do you use your calendar, what do you look for in one and why? What's the best calendar ever? [mi] I'm going all home crafty this year for present giving and I'm trying to design a useful calendar to give to friends and family. I would ask them, but that may give the game away so I'm asking here. I know the things I do and don't like and what I use them for;

Month per page calendars are good because there's a lot of space to write on each day, but bad because I don't notice it's someone's birthday on the 2nd of next month until I turn the page, at which point it's too late.

Wall planners are good because you can see the whole year, but not much writing space for each day and they take up more room, and I don't particularly like the look of them.

I tend to keep planting, seeding growing, picking and general gardening notes on mine, otherwise I'll forget when I'm supposed to put the potatoes in (I'm a useless gardener). But other people I know just seem to use them as pretty pictures that change each month with no notes made on them at all.

I'm toying with showing the whole year as a ring, with space to write notes inside and out. But then my friends see me as eccentric so they may hate that. So what should a universally useful a calendar to do and how would you use it? Or has everyone gone electronic?

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