If you like wall calendars, do you ever think of reusing them?
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December 16th, 2017
You probably know that there are only fourteen calendars. There’s one 365-day calendar starting on each day of the week, because January 1 can fall on any of the seven days, and one 366-day calendar for each, because a leap year can also start on any day. That’s fourteen.
Of course, they don’t just rotate through, one after another, because leap years come every four, not every seven. So the calendar for 2018 is the same as the one for 2007, and that arrangement won’t occur again until 2029. The one we used in 2000 comes up again in 2028. But 2001’s recurred in 2007.
So—if you love pictorial wall calendars, as I do, you might find that if you hang onto one for a while, you can use it again.
So do you?
Tags as I wrote them: calendars, years, leap years, cycles of time.
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I just looked up at the wall, and noticed that the calendar is from 2 years ago.
Well, that works, too. In fact, I kept one calendar (it happened to be Japanese) on my office cubicle wall for about 5 consecutive years. I loved the Japanese landscape and temple photos. But there was one OCDish guy in my group who used to get a little nuts over it because the days of the week didn’t match the numbers. He complained about it every time he came by. (He also straightened the angles of the things on top of my filing cabinet.) I told him I didn’t care because I couldn’t read the Japanese names anyway, and I could see that that made him want to scream because he could. Wasn’t I awful?
I do re-use old calendars.
I can’t re-use them because I don’t keep them. Having an old calendar is a nuisance. Even having a current calendar is a nuisance for me. I throw them away. It was different when I had a cubicle, then I would like a wildlife or landscape photography calendar.
You mean, go all Homer about it…
Marge: I want you to throw away these old calendars and TV Guides.
Homer: Are you mad, woman? You never know when an old calendar might come in handy. Sure, it’s not 1985 now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring? And these TV Guides: so many memories. [1F15]
I’ve left ones up for years and hung old ones because I really want the picture not the calendar. I’ve used 14-calendar charts to track dates for games and fiction. But no I’ve never re-used a calendar as a calendar because it was applicable as a calendar again, but that’s a cool idea. The ecologically conservationist hoarder in me likes the idea of keeping good calendars around since they will be re-usable. Too bad I don’t really use calendars like that as calendars, though I know people who do…
I cut them in half, and hung up the pictures I liked. I never thought they repeat like that
@Jeruba I have never thought of that. Thinking of it now, I can imagine re using calendars for whatever reason you like.
I paperclip appropriate current month grids to the old page. There are so many free calendars given out everywhere that it’s easy to find current months for old attractive pictures.
I put them away then pull them out years later to see what I was up to then. Of course, now all my stuff is on my phone.
Man, I came across an old address book I had filled out in the 80’s the other day….
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