Here are the benefits of having a wall calendar in your kitchen

Back in the day, the new year truly began with the unfurling of a crisp new calendar at home. The blocks of numbers, days where we could see the spaces ready to be filled with hope and optimism. The kitchen or dining space usually has its own calendar. A handy space to mark out the days the help didn’t turn up, the milkman got paid, or the paperboy missed the weekend supplement.

The margins of the kitchen calendar held grocery lists, school holidays were marked with a star and the dates you won a prize at school, would see a smiley face. The calendars of our childhood held our days together with that homely image maybe of a fruit or flower bouquet or a scenic landscape. The wall calendar in its quiddity always has a lot pinned to its simple collection of dates.

Today the wall calendar is a relic, thanks to our smartphones. However, apart from the nostalgia factor, it is time to give the wall calendar (especially in the kitchen) a try. Here’s why: