If you cut up the squares you can rearrange them into a new calender.
Or you could use them again, just disregauring the days of the week and using it based on the day number.
You could give it to a kid to play school with.
You could cut it up into strips and use it for filling gift bags.

Day of the week land on the same dates (#s) they did six years ago. This repeats every six years. For example, you can use a 2001 calendar in lieu of a 2007 calendar, a 2002 calendar for 2008, etc. Try it, it works out if you’re willing to save them.

I use old, barely used diaries as scrap paper. Just tear out the pages and clip them together at the top with a bull dog clip or staple them into smaller piles.

I buy current year diaries new when they’re vastly redcued in the spring to use as note books- you can usually get them for 25p or something for a hard back A5 notebook which I think is pretty good value.

You can take them and use them as some sort of decoration… for instance, using Mod Podge (a type of craft glue) and the pages to jazz up the inside of dresser drawers, to cover shoe boxes so they’re more visually exciting when used for storage (same with gift boxes), or paste them to a piece of poster board and laminate for a unique desk pad. Carry this idea to create unique frames, memo boards, etc.

They *are* paper. They can be put into the regular paper recycle bin to be made into recycled paper.

Also, you can make your own paper out of them by cutting fine (food processor?) and soaking them in water. Agitate the water some until it all looks like mush. Drain the water and roll it out very thin. Let it dry. voila! You have paper.

Finally, you can use any kind of scrap paper to make origami from. I have old wallpaper samplers I use for origami boxes. Very pretty!

I cut out calendar pictures and laminate for use as wipeable “to do” boards or message boards- functional and pretty at the same time. Or transform into unusual envelopes by tracing the pattern from an old envelope. A large out-of-date diary became a hidden book safe

I donate attractive calendars, with pictures of animals or scenery, to lower-income schools, children’s homes, day care centres, or libraries. The walls are often dreary and undecorated. My niece likes to make her own collages from [pictures cut out of calendars too. I have also laminated nice pictures to use as place mats or to stick on the wall in the bathroom (where the lamination makes them waterproof).

i cut those little pictures out (often the backs of wall calendars contain all 12 pictures on a small scale) and use them to make note cards. daily planners also are loaded small pictures, or i cut them down, for the same purpose. i also use the larger calendar pictures on the covers of the “hobo notebooks” i describe under “how do i reuse printer paper.”

make new paper out of them. Same technique as for newspaper.

Why not buy recycled calendars to start with, rose calendars have for 2009 produced a range of promotional calendars for business use, using recyled paper, backcard and cartons with a useful how to recylce your calendar shown on the reverse of every calendar.