I found a new calendar. It wasn't on sale, but I had a 40% off coupon, and I didn't want to look any further. It has the big, lined squares that I like, and while not exactly matte paper, it's not glossy either, so I can use a pencil on it...that's a big thing for me.
However, if I had noticed one thing about it in the store, it would NOT have come home with me. It runs Monday through Sunday instead of Sunday through Saturday. I made that mistake once before, and I was confused and mixing up dates all year long.
As soon as I noticed this, I sat down with a Sharpie and labels to make it conform to my preference. Luckily it had a blank column on the left, so I moved all the Sundays. (Wow, I feel so powerful!) The former Sunday spaces (on the right side) are now blank, and will probably stay that way.
I'm kind of bummed, because I really love the clean-slate look of a new, blank calendar. This one now looks like somebody who tried to bathe a cat...all scratched up and Bandaid-ed. I'll just live with it (sigh), but it is definitely going on next week's Frugal Friday File as a success.
I get some sort of Royalty and local sites calendar from a friend in England every year and they are in the Monday-Sunday format - unfortunately, they don't have the extra column so I always have to remember to adjust the week in my head when I look at it!
ReplyDeleteI used to receive a calendar from a friend in the Mon-Sun format, and I just couldn’t cope! I think it’s a sort of spatial challenge or something. :)
Deleteewww I would hate that too. I have never seen a calendar go from Monday - Sunday but don't look at them often. It would drive me nuts to keep things on the right day.
ReplyDeleteI think you should draw in the blank column on the right or collage some pics or put quotes there
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