I need a highly visible family calendar to hang up in our kitchen. I have what feels like a million evening work events or one-night trips in Sept/Oct. DD starts public K so there's an early dismissal or a teacher PD day or an evening thing every week. And then here comes DH last night talking about his high school reunion in NYC.
I'm starting to feel panicky about getting all this stuff organized and onto one calendar.
I want the new fridge with the Google calendar on front. I have considered mounting my iPad there instead. For paper, I had a Mom's organizer or something that made me equally angry - but it had five rows (one for each of us) in each day of the month. Found at Calendar Go.
We got two week-long dry erase calendars from Target. Each weekend, we put the stuff from our phone calendars on the white boards for the next two weeks. And we have a dry erase/cork board combo where all things with future dates are hung up. Then as we add from our phones, we double-check nothing on the cork board needs to be added to the dry erase calendars or our phone calendars.
ETA- We also write things that are beyond two-weeks out on the white board in a chronological list. So things more than 2 weeks out should be on our phone or the white board list. I like redundancy. It calms me.
I use the paper desk calendar you can pick up at the Dollar Store. I try and color code stuff...DD and I use it but DH refuses and then gets butt hurt when we do something without him as he "didn't know about it". I have a couple big magnet clips that holds it onto the fridge.
At work we have a big dry erase board mounted in the back office that works great but is too large for me to have at home.
Post by erinshelley21 on Aug 14, 2017 14:16:07 GMT -5
I did what mommyatty did when DH was in medic school and we had to balance his rotating schedule plus class and clinicals. I made some with long frames so they would be pretty because I had hours upon hours to myself back in those days. Now we both just use our phone calendars and have them color coded. I will say I am more organized this way compared to when I tried to use a paper planner.
Post by justcheckingin73 on Aug 14, 2017 14:22:30 GMT -5
I use the Mom's calendar with the 5 rows for each member of the family. It works great, except that I have to transcribe everything from my Outlook/Google calendars on there and DH is really bad about doing that so it's not foolproof. Since there are only 4 of us, I use the last line for family events or meal plans.
I wish there was something easier but for the near future that's what we'll be using.
mommyatty, I think we're going to need to implement something like that. DH absolutely refuses to use the Google calendar. But if I spell out the things I know about on a white board and shove it in his face every Sunday, maybe it would prompt him to tell me things that are missing.