New year, new calendar time. 🙂
Last year at the office I had three calendars. Two were hanging monthly calendars. There was a Lord of the Rings calendar, specifically for the Battle for Middle Earth games from EA. I also had a Winnie-the-Pooh calendar, which showed Pooh and his friends, including Lumpy.
There’s also the page-a-day calendar — the Bad President Countdown Calendar, which runs out on Inauguration Day 2009.
That’s what I had, at the office, for 2008.
I keep my old calendars. No, not the page-a-day calendars. Those are disposable. They’re supposed to be thrown away. That’s the whole point.
But the hanging monthly calendars? I keep those.
I’m not one to write on a calendar. It’s unseemly. It’s not me.
Usually, I buy calendars because I like the art. Or sometimes they’re novelty calendars of some sort. I have the Perfect Dark calendar, with the images from the FHM “photo spread” of Joanna Dark, from a few years ago. Oh, and the Babes of Norrath calendars we had at EB Games for the Champions of Norrath games. See, those are collectibles!
Then things like the Lord of the Rings calendars. I’ve gotten art calendars there — John Howe, or the art from the computer game. Those are pretty to look at. How could I pitch those?
There’s no real need to consult the calendars on when a particular date fell. I just like to pull an old calendar to look at the artwork. Nothing wrong with that, is there?
Maybe someday I’ll toss my old calendar collection. Maybe I’ll see no utility in keeping them around. Yet, art is art, and so, for the present anyway, I keep my old calendars.
Except, maybe, for the calendar I’m currently using at work. It’s a bit, erm, cheap. I had to reinforce the holes with scotch tape before I could hang it. When I get a real calendar — note to self: check out the calendar stands in the mall before they disappear — then I’ll chuck it with a real replacement. 😆