First World Rant: Pretty Wall Calendar Wouldn't Stay Hung! About This Page:

[Her Dotness]

Agreed that this is definitely not a life-altering problem, but I'm so chapped that the beautiful Teapot & Tea wall calendar I bought last fall simply would NOT stay up.

I tried putting those paper "doughnut" reinforcements, several of them, on each page. No luck. Calendar fell off the nail anyway after a few hours or at most overnight.

Tried duct tape even. Calendar still dropped.

Switched from a nail to a pushpin-style hook. Same thing.

I never before had this problem with that particular calendar which I bought every year for a kitchen calendar up until we moved eight years ago. I suspect that the paper is much lighter weight than it once was since it's a glossy paper calendar, and glossy paper has become outrageously expensive. Now, it seems the paper is so lightweight that the calendar is simply too heavy to hang unless perhaps you stuck it to the wall with superglue!

Fourteen dollars down the drain, I decided to use the free calendar DH's union gives members every year. Not as pretty by far, but at least it stays where I hung it.

[Straitlover]

I'm using one of those Command hooks with the J-shaped metal piece to hold my flimsy calendar up. Might be worth buying a pack. You can see the white plastic piece, but it's in my office at work, so I don't really care about that.

This is the small pack, but I have a big pack (way more economical) and use them for lots of stuff:

http://www.command.com/3M/en_US/comm...4772789&rt=rud

[Her Dotness]

Yes, I know the type you mention. Have a few, I think.

Command hooks won't work on our walls which have a somewhat pebbly textured finish. It's an apartment, so I don't have much flexibility when it comes to methods for hanging things.

The calendar's cover pages seem to be as heavy paper as ever. With the lighterweight pages, I suspect that makes it too heavy to hang without ripping through the paper at the top of the pages even with several months gone by now.

[GingerJ]

I use a heavy calendar (Fly Lady's). DH didn't like it hanging on a nail in the kitchen, so I put up a cork board. I hang the calendar on the board with push pins, and that works well (When we get halfway through the year, I let the first few months hang behind the calendar so the pins only have to go through maybe 4 or 5 pages at once). This also gives me a little extra space to hang reminders and papers that go with appointments.

[HollyH]

I usually use a binder clip at the top of the calendar and hang the metal clip handle on the hook/nail vs. using the holes on the calendar pages. I also clip up many of the pages, leaving only the current month hanging. I do this not so much because of the weight but because the clip works better, i.e. doesn't slip off, when holding a thicker bundle.

I have also had luck using a magnet clip to hang my calendar at work. Of course, that require you have a metal surface from which to hang it from.

Maybe one of these methods will work for you.

[Her Dotness]

Thanks for that hint, Holly! That could work well where I wanted to hang it.

Why didn't I think of using one of those clips? I think I even have a few left from my years of teaching, assuming I can find them!

[notjustamom]

I have no useful tips as I am picturing a cartoon like scene of a woman surrounded by talk bubbles of expletives staple gunning a calendar to the wall.

[Her Dotness]

LOL! Expletives aplenty but no need for the staple gun.

I found a big clip left over from my teaching days and used it to hang the calendar. Hasn't budged since.

Thanks again, Holly!

[CheerDisney]

If you're not trying this already, I would put about half of the pages on the hook/nail/etc. That way it isn't the weight of the whole calendar pulling down the one page.