Homemade Perpetual Calendar

I totally stole this idea from Paula.  Well, I guess I didn't steal it, because I told her I was probably going to adopt it, and she didn't say, "NO!  That's my idea and you can't use it."  Whew!   

So anyway, here is my adaptation of Paula's fabulous idea:

 I had this nice file box sitting around that our oldest daughter bought for rsvp cards for her wedding, and have found no use for it since.  Then I saw on Paula's post, "Today's item is something I made with finds from around the house,"  and the wheels started turning!  Hmmmmm.  Would it be possible?  But the handy-dandy index cards Paula used would not work with the configuration of this box, so....

See Paula's post I printed out for reference?

I just printed out on card stock each day's date, and placed lines.  I had to play with the margins a bit to enable me to just cut down and across in the middles.  All in all, I used 101 pieces of card stock and an entire black ink cartridge, but I really like how this turned out!  I got 4 days to a page... counted 366 days for a year (including leap-day), plus I made one day that says the name of the month with no date on it, so that I can record each and every special occasion on it: birthdays, anniversary dates, baptism dates, feast days, deaths, etc.  Then, while I am planning the upcoming month's holidays, celebrations, special meals, et all - I just grab the first card of the month and I'm all set to plan! 

Each evening I move each day's card to the back, so then come morning, I am all set for the day.  Each day's card has more specific information on it than that monthly summary, to remind us of exactly how long it's been since that beautiful wedding, or since Great Grammy died, when to begin that novena, etc.

Then on the monthly divider card, I printed an image I'd chosen off of Google image search that pertains to that month's devotion.  Here we have April's card, and we know that April is dedicated to the Holy Eucharist... 

 Now we have February and March's cards being sized for the file box.

February is dedicated to the Passion of the Lord, and March is to St. Joseph

 So with everything all settled into the file box, it looks like this:

So far, I am actually using my new perpetual calendar!   I do not make time to journal, nor do I remember every last detail as well as I used to.  So this is my adaptation of Paula's perpetual liturgical calendar.  Thanks Paula.  I'm glad you generously shared your great idea.