What do 2023, 2017, 2006, 1995, and 1989 have in common?
Turns out that date-wise, they have everything in common. Those years and many more are exactly the same. I learned this by checking a Perpetual Calendar, a list that uses algorithms to compute the day of the week for any given year, month, and day of month. With a Perpetual Calendar, you can figure out which years are the same as the current one.
2006 Homemade calendar of my cats.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
Ff you’re like me with a drawer full of old calendars to pretty or meaningful to throw away, you can bring them out to reuse again. 2023 is an especially compatible year, with several options from the near-past from which to choose.
2017 Page-a-day Desk Calendar
2017 House of Dreams Calendar with sweet Angel Snowball before she got the infection that left her with airplane ears.
Want to learn more about reusing old calendars? Read my blogpost from 2021, SAVING MONEY WITH THE PERPETUAL CALENDAR, here.
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That’s pretty cool, we should have kept our old calendars.
It’s probably good you aren’t a pack rat like me.
What a great idea Mollie. Lovely way for memories of your wonderful cats to live on too. I have just run out of space for another calendar that was just given to me yesterday. One of my Christmas presents from a girlfriend was a Cattitude calendar with January’s grumpy moggie saying “Does it look like I rise and shine?” Happy New Year from Lynn & sleepy cat Rambo!
Happy NY to you too, from Mollie, Jaimz, and Tyler.
I was so glad to hear that I’m not the only one who keeps old calendars. 🙂
Oh, yes. They are usually nicely printed, and unless you want to frame the prints, this is the next best thing.
I was actually just thinking about this the other day. 🙂
If you keep old calendars, it’s a bonus.