How can I make a 2010 diary/calendar recycling old stuff?

calendarHi! Apologies for the sporadic posts of late – I’ve been having so much needed time off from everything – it’s been fab.

Anyway, 2010 starts on Friday and I’m not quite ready for it. Not only because 2010 sounds like the distant future of sci-fi films but because I don’t have a new desk diary yet. I started looking for one a couple of weeks ago then got distracted by something shiny, as I often do, and now my forward planning is taking place on a piece of scrap paper.

So how can I make a 2010 diary reusing, recycling or upcycling stuff instead? Looking around the usual sites, a lot of the homemade diaries are just commercial diaries recovered with a vintage/scrap fabrics but what about using scrap paper? Perhaps printing a week-to-view layout onto old paper bags – like Crafting A Green World’s brown paper bag recipe cards?

I suspect it’ll be easier to make a month-to-view calendar by hand since there only needs to be 12 panels instead of 52 pages. Any suggestions?

What about making reusable calendars to avoid repeating the making process each year? I thought about using a blackboard but it is quite handy to be able to see when we did something, say, two months ago. Ideas?

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5 Responses to “How can I make a 2010 diary/calendar recycling old stuff?”


  1. Alice says:

    1993 had all the same dates-to-days as 2010, so maybe try ebay for an old 1993 one that can now be used again.

  2. Alice says:

    I normally print calendars off the internet here

    http://www.printfree.com/Calendars.htm

    Print on the back of scrap paper as you only need one side for calendars

  3. MK says:

    Why not do a diary online instead and print only when you need it. Try: http://www.lifeentry.com. Nice calendar format and clean interface.

  4. Maurice says:

    My mother uses her calendars like diaries and she never throws them a way. So much for recycling those. I do appreciate looking through them though. It’s nice to see what our day-to-day lives were like back then. Now I make Vision Boards.

  5. sandrian johia says:

    i recycled those diary and calendars so i make an older posts



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