The Weekly Planner and Home Planner family calendars have many features not normally found on wall calendars and they are all there to help you become better organised.

We would suggest that the first things you do are:

• Copy on your yearly events such as birthdays, anniversaries and such like that will not change.
• Find all those bits of paper with things like the dates the recycling lorry comes and copy those onto the calendar.
• When letters come home from school/nursery with term dates and information on about school trips, put them on straight away. If you haven’t got time, put the note in the pocket at the back of the calendar or diary so you cannot lose it.
• Use your stickers to highlight the important dates and to help you see the ‘wood for the trees’ nice and easily.
• Sit your partner down and explain that he needs to put his own information in too. There’s no point having a family calendar if you’re the only one that fills it in.
• Fill in the most important telephone numbers and doctors’ details in the back.

I’ve filled in all the information I have to hand now, what do I do next?

If you have bought one of our calendars, It would be a real shame if your calendar fell out of use because it wasn’t put in a location where it could be seen by everyone. We have ours on our Kitchen wall, some suggest it should be near your telephone, near your fridge or wherever everyone will see it. You’ll know the right spot for it in your home, just make sure that it goes up there and always gets returned if its taken down for some reason.

Other Suggestions

How about attaching a pen to the top of the calendar so you’ve always got something on hand?

If your children are older why don’t you ask them to write their own commitments down so that they feel responsible for time planning?

Extra Stickers

We have packs of additional stickers, not just for when you have run out of the ones that come with the calendar and larger diary, but we have stickers for you to track important events in your life and for trying to keep in control of things like school routines. We also have the family stickers for flagging up which appointment is for which member of your family. These are fantastic for older children who can simply look at the calendar to find out exactly what they’re up to.

We also have stickers designed especially to help you to encourage your children’s good behaviour - and they may even persuade your kids to leave your calendar / diary stickers alone!