Please help me with the name of this particular type of calendar.

April 25, 2018 10:40 AM

Looking for the name of an alternative (and possibly traditional) calendar, one that functions as a way to record important anniversaries and birthdays and other notable days. It doesn't record a specific day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, and so on), however, because that changes ever year. People generally receive these as a keepsake, and always in paper form. It's craft is significant compared to a regular office/home calendar. I don't remember what they are called, and I can't search for one until I find out.

What I'm looking for is not digital or electronic or a software app.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

posted by captainsohler to Grab Bag (4 answers total)

Are these results for "birthday calendar" on Etsy along the lines of what you're looking for?
posted by invokeuse at 10:46 AM on April 25, 2018 [2 favorites]

Perpetual calendar :) Though I see these can also be calendars for calculating the day of the week for dates in the future, the paper one I have is called a perpetual birthday calendar.
posted by altolinguistic at 10:49 AM on April 25, 2018 [6 favorites]

Response by poster: Yep! That's it. Thank you!
posted by captainsohler at 10:49 AM on April 25, 2018

Also called a "book of days."
posted by ohshenandoah at 5:59 PM on April 26, 2018