I have so many birthdays to remember. Some I can recall each year from memory, others I need a reminder. How do you keep track of important dates and in enough time to send cards/gifts?
Second question - I just found out there is a birthday tomorrow. I would like to send a little something, but a card won't arrive in time. Ideas?
Www.birthdayalarm.com
They send you an email like a week before then like 2 days before so you can't forget. When you join you send out emails to everyone asking them to input their email so you don't have to really do anything.
This site has been so good to me! I use it for anniversaries ect....I get reminders sent to my email.
http://www.birthdayalarm.com/Default.jsp
put them on your phone calender so it reminds you a week in advance
For tomorrow, flowers or a plant. Or a electronic gift card. You could also send a regular gift card and jus tlet it arrive late or overnight it.
I use MS Outlook at work and I put birthdays in there with a 2 week reminder so I have time to purchase and send. Any electronic calendar, even one on your phone, should let you set alarms like this.
-I put them on my wall calendar at the end of each year when I buy a new calendar. Great to do when the new calendars are put out for purchse (Sept? Oct?) so you're prepared for the next year.
-We had a family calendar made for each family w/everyone's birthday pre-printed on it but again I had to add my family and friends' birthdays on it. I write it on their day then highlight it.
-Set Outlook to pop you up w/a reminder for b-days.
-Put calendar where you will see it/use it everyday!
-Ok for present tomorrow.....how about a card w/a gift card you buy at the grocery store for a store they like, iTunes, lottery ticket etc, take to post office and overnight. Since it's an envelope...it's cheap.
-You could see if a florist (like ProFlowers.com) would deliver w/the small amt of notice.
-Also, call them on their special day tomorrow.
-Btw, your present can always be late if you at least call to say happy b-day.
I did put all my Bdays on the calendar in Outlook and set the reminder to a week early so I had time to send out a card. It would just pop up in my reminders when I logged onto my computer. You could do the same thing on the calendar on your cell phone. But now I just use Send Out Cards. You put in the date, name and address and it will AUTOMATICALLY send out a card for you!!! Awesome! If you (or anyone else) wants the info, send me a personal message and I'll get it to you. And no, I don't sell it, I'm a customer! =)
Facebook reminds you of birthdays the week before they occur. It also does anniversaries.
I have a wall calendar my son gave me for Christmas. It has photos of my kids on the months of their births and wedding photos on the months of their anniversaries. It shows the anniversaries and birthdays of kids and grandkids.
I was given the calendar for Christmas because my son was having a hard time economically and said he couldn't afford Christmas presents. I told him I had done a calendar and given it to my parents when I was having a hard time figuring out how I was going to give Christmas presents. He took the ball and ran with it. He took pictures, birth dates off face book or called his brothers and sisters. My calendar was so popular he had to make more for some of his siblings.
Good luck to you and yours.
I have the Mom's Planet calendar...I also have a folder with birthday cards in it separated out by dates....with a post it note on the front and filled out...
Keep track on a calendar. I use a basic paper planner for appointments and whatnot, so I just transfer all the birthdays/anniversaries from the old planner each year. It takes a while, but then they are all there for you to see. Just make a point of looking at it daily to see what's going on. If I have to send a card, I will also note that on the calendar so I know I have to be proactive.
Just wish em happy birthday on the phone and say there is something in the mail. Then you remembered on the day.
Years ago my mother gave me a "perpetual calendar". I honestly have no idea where she found it, but it lives on my fridge. I record birthdays, anniversaries and other dates that "don't change" on there.
As for remembering to send cards... I buy all of the cards that I need for the month at one time. Write them, address them, stamp them and then put a reminder in my day planner on the day they need to be sent!
If there's a bday tomorrow, call or text...
Future reminders- I right everything in my calendar that I keep in my desk drawer... I look on Fridays for the following week of events, then I keep a weekly "to do" list and write it on that list....
I am very organized (maybe a little OCD lol) so it's easy for me...
Hello, I'm the Queen of Birthdays! I was pretty good about keeping track in my head, but as the years go one more people are too. Go online and create a page for each month. Then, you can continue to add. And I'm old school I like to write them down and see them in front of me. Also, I've started adding birthdays on my phone with the contacts. At the first of the month I just stop and think who's birthdays are that month and if I'm sending a card and/or gift. I keep plenty of extra cards around, too.
As far as tomorrow.....log onto Hallmark.com and you choose a card with your own words and they mail it. Don't know about tomorrow, but check out the website (small fee). And hey, better late than ever! You can call and if the card is late at least you remembered.
Curious to see what everyone else does................
I use a paper calendar from Flylady. This is the 4th year in a row that I'm ordered one and I love them! This calendar goes from August of the current year to December of the next year so I do my change over in August before the school year starts. I just go through the old calendar and transfer the dates from the old to the new.
I have overlap in that a lot of this data also ends up in my outlook calendars, Facebook etc. but the paper one is my ultimate source. I prepare because I check my calendar at the beginning of each month and put buying gifts or sending cards on my to-do list. I also sync up all calendars (paper and electronic) twice a week and check the wall calendar every morning and night to it's pretty hard to miss something once it's on there LOL.
For the birthday tomorrow, go to Amazon and buy an e-gift card. They will send to their e-mail address... no postage, no delay!
My dad has a hard time with remembering dates, so for Christmas every year, we take a calendar and fill in important dates. If you're on the computer a lot, try using Google calendar. It helps me a lot.
My SIL prints out a list and hangs it on her pantry door.
You obviously own a computer. Certainly it has a calendar program with reminder settings (on a Mac it's called iCal / PC might be Outlook). You can list peoples birthdays and mark them to recur annually. Then set a reminder on the "event" to remind you, say 4 days prior to the event. Every time you open you computer, you should get a reminder for whatever you've set. Also, you mobile phone should be able to to it too.
Also, 800-Flowers had a great calendar program that sends a monthly calendar and reminders as you set them to remind you of events.
