What do you do with old calendars? Some of the pictures are fantastic and I never want to throw them away so I keep them, but they end up in a cupboard never looked at anyway.
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Sometimes I might frame them; cut the edges neatly or use a guillotine.Makes for cheap pictures for your walls,recycling etc.
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if they are pretty and in my taste, I cut them and hang them on my wall as posters.
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When I was younger I would hang them on my wall, now I just toss them. :- |
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If they're just going to sit in an old cupboard take them to you're local school or kindergarten, the kid's love them!
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with my old calendars i usually frame the pictures i like and hang them up. or if not i cut them out and make a scrap book. i love doing scrap books i have loads.another idea is to buy a photo album the ones with the sticky pages and put the oictures in that.
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I grab all the calendars at the end of the year and let the kids go through the pictures and make a picture collage. They enjoy picking the pictures, cutting them out and glueing and layering them, we then keep that for a while until it gets bent, and ruined hanging on the fridge, then it gets 'put away' or thrown away depending how well it lasted.
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I keep them and tell myself I am going to give them to someone who does crafts. Mostly they just collect dust. As for my "real" calendars - my planners - I have been keeping those since the early 70s so that I can keep track of where I have been and what I have done.
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Here is an idea.............. Take the old calendar photos to nursing homes. Many patients there, love to paint. They are always looking for something different to paint and the calendars would be an endless supply of new material.
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I cut them down and paste them into drawings. They make the most amazing designs for clothing... Sometimes I frame them as well.
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You're right - some of the pics are fantastic and a great way of displaying your favourites is to make a set of clipboards (ply,glue, clip = easy as)load each one with a few pics and whenever you feel like a change just send the front to the back. They look really trendy set up in sets of 3 or 5. Shop bought clipboards are great too but sometimes it's hard to get the right size.
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If it's a photo/pic that's really grown on me, I'm not beyond buying a cheap frame and propping it up somewhere.
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How about scanning those pictures on a scanner and save them on your computer. You can have a slide show. And it solves the clutter problem.
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you could scan them + share them in an art group. make a collage. cut parts out + make a placemat then plastic coat it.
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you can always make nice collages or greeting cards out of them. if not use them to cover your favourite books.
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