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Friday, December 05, 2008

Are Paper Calendars Old Technology?

Some businesses are still handing out paper calendars and the thought hit me today, do people still use those. I received two so far, one has scenery pictures and the other classic cars. (I would argue about the classic cars, I used to drive a lot of them. Are they really classics? Can't be!)

I think back to the days when I was growing up and we used to get a lot of free calendars. Some were a couple feet wide by several feet long, that filled half a wall, right down to the little wallet size ones. Some had a single picture, others had a different picture for every month.

Calendars even became controversial as times changed. I remember when a popular bikini clad edition of a calendar suddenly became inappropriate for the work place after being around for years. By today's standards you would see more skimpy attire on city streets.

Increased costs are often given as the reason paper calendars are starting to gradually disappear. Is that the real reason, or have they lost their popularity? We used to be able to scribble notes on paper calendars of our appointments and upcoming birthdays. No danger of it failing and all the information disappearing, it was there for the entire year. Sometimes the picture was around even longer than that as the good ones were transported to the walls of the outhouse.

Seems many of our personal devices have usable calendars these days. Our computers, cell phones and many other pieces of equipment have readily available calendars to keep appointments on. And in the case of phone like devices, are always with us. In fact I use the computer and the cell phone myself to keep track of things I have to do.

I still like to keep at least one paper calendar around though, even though there is no outhouse available anymore to hang the pictures at the end of the year. And please don't hang your cell phone there - the pictures are too tiny to enjoy anyway.

-=One Day At A Time=-