When I was growing up, my mom kept track of meetings, appointments, and birthdays in a slender datebook (always secured with rubber band), plus a monthly calendar mounted inside a kitchen cabinet.
My mom now relies on her iPhone calendar when she’s out and about, but she still transcribes everything onto a master monthly calendar hanging in the kitchen. Quickly, she can see when my grandmother’s next doctor appointment is scheduled, when my dad is headed out of town on business, or when she needs to babysit my nephew in New York City.
I log my own appointments, as well important dates and times for Levi and Asa, in my iPhone calendar, but our lives are starting to get hectic enough that I think we’d benefit a monthly calendar hanging in our kitchen, too.
I’d like a wall calendar large enough to record everything — birthday parties, doctor appointments, play dates, school functions, vacations, etc. Since I don’t always remember to look ahead in my iPhone calendar to see what’s coming up, a paper calendar would easily allow me take in the whole month at a glance.
Last week, I popped into PaperSource to check out their selection of “academic calendars” — calendars that begin in August and end in December the following year. Below are a few of my favorites from their selection of 2015-2016 monthly calendars. Which one do you like the best?
1. Brush Script Calendar 2. Chalkboard Calendar 3. Great Big Calendar 4. Paint Chip Calendar 5. Gold Foil Watercolor Calendar 6. Gold Foil Blotter Calendar
How do you keep track of your family’s daily schedules? Are you a digital- or paper-calendar person?
PS - That time I tried keeping a Bullet Journal.
(top image via Domino)
I’m a paper calendar person all the way!! I even have the paint chip one from paper source! I can’t embrace the phone calendar yet, I’m ver grandma like that
I love paper calendars, but often never want to write in them because they’re too pretty! I know I know I’m not really using them to their full potential
I really wanted to go digital so made a go of it, but at heart, I’m a paper person. Plus I really like receiving my annual planner at Christmas from my father-in-law.
Oh my, I’m such a huge calendar person! I am crazy for paper AND digital types. Great roundup.
I’m pretty much all-digital, but I definitely need to refine my “system!”
I’d like to be digital – I am completely for work. But mostly I need to know my husband’s schedule and he is a paper guy all the way. So much so, he uses pen or pencil depending on if something is confirmed or not!
I had to buy a large calendar to hang in our kitchen just so I can keep track of his schedule. And I have that exact one – the Great Big Calendar – from Paper Source! A secondary benefit to it – when the month is over, we tear it down and Max uses it as a giant piece of paper to draw on. Bonus!
Google calendar all the way! That way I can set alarms on my phone 🙂 My to-do list is pen and ink though 🙂