Free calendars, given to you, send for them, download them, or make your own?  

True, one never knows. Last year, I had to really make an effort to work it into my schedule. With 9.9 acres, to not at least try once a month (and I've always wanted to do once a week and retire to at least a walk every day and forage about 3 times a week during the really heavy parts of the season like late spring, late summer, and whenever the most stuff came in during the fall), not foraging seems like such a waste.

Just disappointing when you click on January, nothing. February, nothing. So I clicked on the alternate which is a list under each month that they have. It started in March. OK. Now I know. www.About.com (maybe without the capital, that is what it looks like on the page that comes up) has hundreds of free items including a once a week free newsletter telling you how to be more frugal. Found the foraging and other calendar ideas in the once a week newsletter.

Thanks for responding and take care.

The site came up when I clicked on it as is.
Lots of great free stuff, esp. if you know anyone who likes to color.

Very nice, so you're no stranger to these calendars. Printing pictures of your Daughters sounds like a wonderful calendar for their Grandparents. That's a really cool idea. Wish I had thought of it for Christmas. Would have been nice to give calendars to my family members who don't have computers. Thanks for the additional ideas that I hadn't thought of. Take care.

I like one handy when I'm talking on the phone to Drs., people I work for, etc.

I have one near my computer. My husband has one in the living room. Come in handy to write down appointments. Keeps his and mine separate that way and if I'm not home he can look on the calendar and see why I'm not there. I usually write him a note, but if I'm running behind.

I mostly put stuff in my phone - I know, lazy...

the client does use it to write appts down on

I have a tracphone, so that would cost $ every time I used it.

Were they free?
I wish I had thought of this before Christmas. It would have been nice to give them to relatives who don't have online computers.
I get tons of free stuff from About.com. Just didn't think about Christmas presents and calendars until now, duh, me.

Thanks for checking this out and take care.

Yes, they were.

Glad you like it. thanks and take care.

Yeah, we used to get a lot of free ones, but most companies aren't doing well up here and they stopped giving out extra anything.

Did you check out the foraging calendar at about.com? It's a month ahead or a couple of weeks ahear or behind depending on where you live and what kind of year you're having, but it is interesting.

My husband has a thing where we could probably glue the calendars to a board and he could cut them and make jigsaw puzzles. Great idea, thanks.

We used to get free calendars, but not so much since the recession. Good to hear that some people are still solvent and confident enough to give them out. Thanks and take care.

Those personal ones with pictures are cool.

This year, I see more places doing calendars again. Last year, people dropped that because business was bad. I had to actually seach for calendars. I think people are being more optomistic or they realized how disappointed people were last year without calendars. Also, if they're smart, their business phone # or address are on every calendar.

All those cooking calendars must be really cool. I got a California Raisin calendar one time and the recipes were scrumpcious (spelling?).

I'm so sorry that there are so many pesticides that it's unsafe to gather wild food. There must be a lot of swamp area or standing water that breeds mosquitoes, etc.

Planners are very important now-a-days.

Thanks for responding and take care.