You know I’m one of the last six people using a paper date book, right? Okay, there might be more than six of us but we are dwindling.
Every time I take out my date book, I feel like I should also take out my 8-Track Player.
But I like having stuff on paper. And granted, half the time I forget to actually look in my book which means I forget what I am supposed to do anyway, but if my phone falls in the toilet, at least I have a fighting chance of knowing that I have a meeting with my daughter’s teacher on Wednesday. You techy calendar people will have to rely on that fancy memory of yours.
I also like to read books on actual paper. Well, let me clarify. I don’t really read books but if I did, it would be on paper. I still prefer to read a paper newspaper, rather than online if anyone around here would let me have 3 minutes to do so. And I would totally watch TV on paper (if that was possible.)
Which is why I totally appreciated when a friend sent me this very funny video…
See? Paper is not dead.
16 Responses to for the love of paper
kelcey kintner
I have a manual diary (appointment book/ whatever)! Somehow it supercedes the digital one on my phone. I think it’s habit, or I’m actually older than I realise.
That is hilarious!
There are people like me out there! I can’t seem to get myself out of a college planner, though. Lol, it’s a vicious cycle. I can’t bring myself to buy a new planner just to use from May-December?
Any how can you compete with a good ol’ fashioned post-it?
I have a paper day planner but I laugh at people who read paper books. And throw paper airplanes at them.
Ummm . . . you have heard of the cloud, right? My calendar cannot be lost.
Kelcey Reply:
March 18th, 2013 at 8:25 am
I forgot about the cloud. Okay, you are superior.
I’m a paper date book girl too. And on my Outlook and my phone. Clearly I have some calendar issues…
Me too!!!
And just to make us feel better, Facebook’s
Sheryl Sandberg confesses ,
” In “Lean In,” I also admit that I carry a notebook and pen around to keep track of my to-do list, which, at Facebook, is like carrying around a stone tablet and chisel.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03.....&_r=0
What can I say??? We’re in good company!
I no longer use a paper planner, but it’s still hard to resist buying one when I see all the pretty planners at the bookstore.
Jesabes Reply:
March 18th, 2013 at 10:33 am
I’m the same – I can’t resist the pretty planners. So I buy them.
Then I do everything electronically and the paper one just sits there.
I love reading books too… I love the feel of them and all that it is involved in reading them. I am afraid to get a Kindle because what if I don’t like it. I use a planner too.
Hilarious! My iPad just ate the entire month of January… Back to a paper planner I go!
Fabulous. That says it all. Mom
Paper planner, paper book person here too. But I’m old.
I love my paper calendar. I have used the same kind since college (20 something years). I have saved them all. It’s the closest thing my kids have to a baby book!
Thank you for this post! My brain doesn’t do digital, paper is an absolute necessity.