Re-use your old 2015 Calendar

Former_MSE_Anthony

Pinkle wrote: »

Don't throw your 2015 calendar away at the end of the year!

The year 2026 is exactly the same as 2015, so keep your 2015 calendar in a drawer for ten years and you'll be quids in!

I'd like to claim credit for this money saving tip but credit where it's due, I nicked the idea (sorry, re-used it) from the 2016 year planner thread.

Official MoneySavingExpert insert: If you've other calendars or diaries knocking around, there's even a site that helps find when matching years will come around again. Thanks to IndigoGirl for sharing.

Pinkle, you've found fame on the MSE Deals Facebook page - hope you don't mind, we just had to share this!

fizzking

Save yourself a lot of work in future years.
It is surprising how many repetitive tasks crop up during the year, such as Birthdays and Bin Days ( 3 types for me). In practice there are dozens.
I use a calendar based on a Palm PDA software for a desktop. No need for a Palm or other PDA device. Just download the app.
Enter your repetitive actions during your chosen year ( normally this year) and set the repeat intervals, such as weekly, 2 weekly, monthly or yearly. You can set actions in years to come, if you need, such as Passport renewal and Guarantees.
Simply print out the sheets. Each November I do a new one from November to January ( 14 months). I use a monthly page.
You can write on any date for unplanned actions.
You can use the Windows calendar but it is a bit harder to print out.

Likewise you can prepare a mailing list, using Office or similar, printing to 21*7 sticky label sheets. Very handy for Xmas.

hannerrbabes

Nah, I'd rather not wait 10 years just to save 79p, and then have all my appointments, work shifts, birthdays, university semester dates and exams, etc, from 10 years back...

1stPPi

The calendar repeats every 28 years, so you only need 28. The only time this changes is at the turn of the century as, it is not a leap year . 2000 was because 20 is exactly devisable by 4. The next century that will be a a leap year is 2400. We won't be around to worry about this.

miss-tified

another money saving tip that I think fits well with this kind of "if it helps you-go for it" is to spend some (considerable) time searching online for one of those wonderful money saving gadgets that protects the cut end of your cucumber so it doesn't dry out and you can use it without needing to slice off the end bit. It was on dragons den a long time ago, perhaps its online now, and maybe several copycat versions. I haven't done the sums to work out how many cucumber end slices equates to a return on your investment in a cucumber-end-saving gadget as it's too subjective - there may be people who could cover the cost of the gadget in less than two score years and ten (and has saved many past calendars); there may even be people who use or rehydrate their dried cucumber ends; there may be winged farm animals of a porcine nature, pots of gold at ends of rainbows, and I do hope there will be someone somewhere who will want and seek this cucumber tool. If you know of anyone please do tell, it would so make my day :rotfl: