… one way to make do until delivery is by recycling calendars saved from the past because of great illustrations, or dandy (NewYorker !!) cartoons, the Unicef ones that used to have a holiday from somewhere in the world on almost every date so there’s always something to celebrate! And like that.
Usually, an identical-weekdays year is not far away. Years with the same calendar as 2016 are a problem tho’, because this year has 366 days, being a leap year. So, when this year’s arrives, make a note at the end to save it for using again in 2044 (Live long and prosper)!
Meanwhile, unless you saved your 1988 or 1960 calendars (or someone else’s 1932 or 1904, I’m guessing it would be), it’s time to get creative: fortunately, January and the first 28 days of February in 2016 have the same weekdays as in 2010 — just rip those months outa your saved 2010 calendars, add “29” in at the end of February (it’ll be a Monday) and bob’s your uncle … at least until March...
If you still haven’t gotten a new calendar by then, don’t panic — March 2016 is the same as March 2011, so go rip a March page outa your saved 2011 calendars. Or use August from 2006, May 2007, January or July 2008, December 2009, May 2012, January or October 2013, July 2014 — or December 2015, readiest to hand. Have sharpie, will re-name.
Scroll a little down at the link (it’s http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/repeating.html?year=2016) and you get the clickable buttons for Repeating Years and Repeating Months and Find Similar [calendar] Years in case the calendar-reycle bug gots you now.
For those who tend to scribble deadlines (e.g., January 8 KTK), appoint-ments, holidays not pre-printed, and suchlike (Wikiped's page of January holidays, commemorations, observances, significant dates, etc.), a little judicious blanking of previous-years’ scribbling is easily accomplished with scissored-up
pieces of various sizes avery-type blank self-sticky mailing labels — one of the great inventions of the era, suitable for freezer bags, 3” floppy disks, blanking the stupid rhymes inside greeting cards with otherwise excellent cover illustrations in order to use for one’s own purposes, correcting the actual-paper address book when friends move from hither to yon, et cetera (for years I’ve bought batches of clearanced brands and sizes, so I never run out. Love that stuff!).
If the 2016 calendar you ordered has still not arrived by March’s end, send the vendor a sternly worded reprimand cum order-cancellation and get one somewhere else. Or continue recycling as above.
What’s your favorite calendar type these days? Do you use just wall-calendars? Or also appointment books, daily-vocab, daily jokes, daily kittens? I kind of like those perpetual calendars made of wooden or metal or plastic blocks for every digit, month and day … but I haz cats, so...
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