This is one of those things that I just don’t understand. Every year, I get a calendar, for the sole reason of marking what videos I’ve uploaded to YouTube and what days they premiere. That’s all I use it for. So why are there so many problems trying to do that?
I don’t get it.
Every year, I get a calendar that has at least 3-4 months of the previous year at the beginning, all of which is totally useless. I’ve had that calendar already. Why would I need it again? What I need a couple of months into the new year, not the old one.
In fact, it makes no sense at all that you’d want a calendar that does that. Calendars come out at the end of the year and, because of my upload schedule, I am at least 2 months ahead. That means for videos I make in December, I’m scheduling it out in February.
Most of the time, I’ll just get a calendar for Christmas because I have little else to stick on my list. By then, I’ve had to print out calendars on paper for 2 months to keep track and then I’ll go back and mark all of those dates on the new calendar when I finally receive it. It would be a lot easier if the calendars came with the first few months of the new year included.
But you might ask yourself, why don’t I just go out and buy one earlier? Well, to be honest, it’s because I don’t want to leave the house between Thanksgiving and Christmas. There are too many stupid people out there, especially at the mall. People lose all grasp on their senses. There is a dramatic increase in accidents around Christmas. I know, all of my local cop friends say so. I try to avoid any shopping hot spots if at all possible and that means I don’t go to the mall to hit the calendar place, period.
Granted, I could just order from Amazon, which is what usually happens anyhow, but as I said, it’s just an inconvenience and it takes something off of the gift list that I’d have to figure out something else to add so I don’t. That part of it is my fault and I accept that, but that still doesn’t answer the question.
I’m assuming it has something to do with forcing people to buy calendars. If you don’t get one by the first week or so of January, they’re not really interested in selling them to you. Most of the calendar mall stores are gone. Their selling window is very short and therefore, they want to “encourage” people to do it as fast as they can. That still doesn’t solve my problem though. Can’t they just release a limited number of calendars with a couple of months into the next year for people like me?
Or, am I actually thinking about this rationally? Shame on me.