2023 Full year wall Calendar

What is better than a monthly view calendar? A FULL YEAR view calendar!

Full year calendar in our kitchen.

I am a super visual person, and need to see things in order to understand them best. In my planners I always need a weekly and monthly spread to feel like I was grasping what I actually had coming up. When our kids started getting a little older and were starting to do activities and camps in the summer I was struggling to get a full picture of what our time would look like. My original plan to stay organized was to print out monthly view calendars for the summer and fill them all out, which works, but in the end I would shove them somewhere and not be able to find them when I needed them.

When I came across this clean looking full year calendar, I knew I needed it. I loved the clean lines, I loved that I could put it in our kitchen so we could all see it all the time, and I loved that you could easily see what a month and the surrounding months looked like when making plans. Did it make sense to go to the cabin a certain weekend in the summer or were the 3 weekends before it out of town for other things and we needed to take a breather, at home, instead? Since my kids have been old enough to do the sports camps and other activities in the summer, this calendar has been a game change. You have to start signing up for those things in MARCH, and it was driving me crazy flipping back and forth on the calendar, trying to piece together what kid went where, did they all have something one week, was I spreading us too thin, loading the first half of summer and neglecting the rest? When were our vacations again? It has just been a planning game changer for me. I wrote out all the details of what I used below. Happy Planning!

Details:

Calendar:

The digital download for the full calendar print is from Etsy here Calendars by Ashlee. ($9) She has a few different designs, portrait or landscape, academic calendars, and quarterly calendars. If I had a cool big office I would for sure get the quarterly as wall art.

Washi Tape:

I use thin washi tape (7mm) to add events to the calendar. I use a different color for each person, and a color that designates family fun. The washi tape is great because you can carefully peel if off if something changes.

Frame:

The Frame is a poster frame from Target that I took the glass out of. The size is 24 x 36. Since sharing this on Instagram, a friend showed me the one she did and her frame looked so much more polished than my sad old poster frame from 4 years ago, so I went out to Target and upgraded to a new thicker frame from Target. It definitely upgraded the space!

Printing:

I have used both Staples and Office Depot/Office Max in the past. The file from Etsy is a digital download, so you save it to your computer and reupload it to their printing sites. Print it as a 24x36 engineer print in Black and white. The great thing is it is less that $5.