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What anal retentive person keeps a calendar from his high-school days?? (Original Post) Peacetrain Sep 2018 OP
Agreed Sherman A1 Sep 2018 #1
Point well taken Peacetrain Sep 2018 #3
I might have kept one but it went in the trash years ago.n/t Raven Sep 2018 #2
The same with me... Peacetrain Sep 2018 #4
Exactly. Would you take that with you when you move out of your parents house, and keep... brush Sep 2018 #16
He did so many bad things he kept a calendar . Let's call it 'My Alibi' calendar. SummerSnow Sep 2018 #5
ROFL!! Peacetrain Sep 2018 #9
Actually MFM008 Sep 2018 #6
Likewise zipplewrath Sep 2018 #7
Pictures and Annuals etc, are different than an old beat up calendar.. Peacetrain Sep 2018 #8
I have my calendars from college through the present PJMcK Sep 2018 #10
be interesting to analize when the calendar was written in dembotoz Sep 2018 #11
I can see how they could be of practical use as well as Hortensis Sep 2018 #12
Only psychos seem to do that--keeping calendars with coded dates when victims were hurt/buried. TheBlackAdder Sep 2018 #13
I wonder how many of his victims will never get to speak out Bonx Sep 2018 #15
IDK but... Takket Sep 2018 #14

brush

(53,475 posts)
16. Exactly. Would you take that with you when you move out of your parents house, and keep...
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:51 AM
Sep 2018

it with you from move after move after move in you working life?

Hell no.

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
5. He did so many bad things he kept a calendar . Let's call it 'My Alibi' calendar.
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:26 AM
Sep 2018

Too drunk to remember anything on his own

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
7. Likewise
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:29 AM
Sep 2018

I've got stuff from way back. Mostly yearbooks. Some old photos. Letters from various people. No calendars but I've never been much of a calendar user anyway.

PJMcK

(21,921 posts)
10. I have my calendars from college through the present
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:33 AM
Sep 2018

They're records of events in my life. On several occasions, they've been helpful in reconstructing or remembering the sequence of events. Twice, my later calendars were useful with the IRS.

On the other hand, to answer your question, I guess I'm that anal retentive person!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
12. I can see how they could be of practical use as well as
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:39 AM
Sep 2018

great mementos. I know I still have a couple around in a box somewhere. But for busy people they'd be full of good information, even that far back. It surprised me at first that he still had it after all these years, but then I don't collect friends and contacts the way someone who took the DC-area prep school to Ivy League to rocket-trajectory career might. Or as someone who hoped to be important enough have biographies written about him might.

Both his parents were also no doubt records-oriented, working in the law, on the judiciary, and in the public sphere for various government and other organizations. Lots of politicking and working parties, I'm guessing.

Who knows? Maybe they'd be a little surprised that not everyone files their calendars.

Bonx

(2,041 posts)
15. I wonder how many of his victims will never get to speak out
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:47 AM
Sep 2018

Those calendars need to be thoroughly investigated!

Takket

(21,425 posts)
14. IDK but...
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:46 AM
Sep 2018

Seems like a great idea! Commit crimes all you want, just wright down “ate nachos and watched Netflix all day” to present as proof you are innocent if the law shows up!

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