Remember getting the NEW calendar?

[fuzzybuddy]

I'm not sure if it was just a local company, but I remember going to Richmond Oil Co. to get the new calendar. It was a big , glossy, colored affair. They had good "freebees" back in the old days, not like today.. ( God, I sound like my grandfather.) It was cool hanging up the new calendar. It was like facing a brand new year.

 

[Aunt Marg]

I remember my parents getting a new calendar for the up and coming year through stores they shopped at leading up to Christmas.

They were always so thrilled to get a free calendar, and they'd talk and talk about it.

 

[JaniceM]

I liked both- the ones from local companies in the past, and freebies that seemed to have vanished in recent years. Anymore, I'm happy with the 2-year pocket planners I keep on my desk.

 

[jujube]

It seemed like your insurance agent, your dentist, your mechanic, the bank, etc., all sent you a calendar. Big calendars, little pocket calendars, laminated calendar cards..... Nobody had an excuse to not know what day it was.

 

[Aunt Bea]

We used to get one from a local insurance agent that had large Currier and Ives prints on them. My stepfather used to frame the picture and give them to people as inexpensive decorations.

When the local bank stopped giving out wall hung At-A-Glance style calendars with a page for each day the whole town was up in arms.

At Christmas when we were little we used to buy these inexpensive linen tea towel wall calendars as presents. I still have a couple that my mother saved.

 

[Aneeda72]

Still get a large free one from our bank and smaller ones from insurance company etc.

 

[Becky1951]

I always pick one up at the bank and local feed store. Miss those days.

 

[Lashann]

At Christmas when we were little we used to buy these inexpensive linen tea towel wall calendars as presents. I still have a couple that my mother saved.

I've always liked those linen "calendars" and a couple of years ago was still able to find those being sold in a quaint linen store in a small town in my area.

Personally I don't like most of the "freebie" calendars that much anymore as I don't find them as attractive as the ones in the past due to all the advertising written all over it, quality of the paper, etc.

 

[Fyrefox]

"Freebie" calendars used to be a lot more common than they currently are, widely used by businesses as advertising mediums that would be before people for a full year. My bank used to offer your choices of calendars, from wall to desk to pocket sizes. I welcomed free calendars if the adverts weren't too prominent, although I passed on the ones from funeral homes as a bit too creepy!

 

[Lewkat]

Banks and insurance companies always gave them out.

 

[Pappy]

The only calendar we get is from UnitedHealth care. A small one that is magnetized to go on our refrigerator. In the 50s, places were begging you to take a calendar.

 

[LindaB]

I get 3 to 4 free big calendars every year with great pictures of nature, animals, vacation locations. A lot of us get so many that we take them to the senior center so that they can give them away as well.

 

[Tommy]

Every autumn my lovely wife goes in search of a new Robert Lang Delafield calendar for the coming year. She then spends some time writing in birthdays, anniversaries, appointments and other important dates so it will be ready to slip into it's frame on our kitchen wall on New Years Day.

Neither of us has any real gift for decorating, but she always chooses a wonderful calendar.

 

[JaniceM]

Oh, I also liked those freebie "date books" calendars that used to be at the checkout counter in Hallmark stores.