Fun Page-A-Day Calendars for 2009

A great way to liven up each day at home or at the office is to have a daily calendar, the so called "Page-A-Day" calendars. With the new year coming up, now's the time to purchase a daily calendar so you can see something new each day! They also make great gifts around this time of year!

These calendars can be found on Amazon.Com as well as in all kinds of stores, from department stores to greeting card stores to book stores.

An ever-popular theme of page-a-day calendars is cute animals. What could be a better gift for a cat-lover than getting to see a new kitty every day? Unless otherwise noted, these are desk calendars.

If you or a friend are cat lovers, here's a sampling of some feline page-a-day calendars:

• 365 Cats: like it sounds, a cat for every day of the 365 in a year
• Cat Gallery: professional photographs
• Cat Naps: pictures of kitties, well, napping
• Stuff on my Cat: pictures of cats whose owners have placed a variety of items on top of them

Then there are the calendars for the dog lovers:

• 365 Dogs: a dog for every day
• Bad Dog: photos of dogs "gone bad," with captions to boot
• Puppies Mini Calendar: who can resist a puppy a day?
• Dog Gallery: like Cat Gallery, professional photos of dogs

Of course, people like animals other than pups and kitties. Here are some other calendars for various animal lovers:

• Audubon 365 Songbirds and Other Backyard Birds: close-up, in color, professional shots of birds
• Horses Desk Calendar: ...what else, pictures of horses
• Cute Overload: a personal favorite. Pictures that are so cute they will make you squeal like a little girl
• Frogs Desk Calendar: froggies every day!

Humorous Page-a-Day calendars are a fun way to start off each day with a laugh.

• 365 Jokes, Puns, & Riddles: a year's worth of silly jokes and dorky puns that will make you guffaw or roll your eyes
• 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said: one of the first and most popular daily calendars. As the name indicates, each day you get to read something stupid that someone actually said or printed.
• Dilbert Day-to-Day: the comic strip Dilbert in calendar form
• Dictionary of Corporate Bulls**t: sarcastic to the extreme, it's one way to deal with life in a cubicle
• Bathroom Humor: for the immature potty-mouth on your list... which just might be yourself

Everyone knows at least one person who could easily be on Jeopardy for all of his or her useless knowledge. Well, naturally, there are calendars for those people who love trivia and miscellaneous tidbits of information and who would love to learn more.

• 365 Amazing Trivia Facts: designed purely for the trivia lover
• Why Do Men Have Nipples?: a fact book of medical knowledge and trivia that people are too embarrassed to ask
• 365 Sports Facts a Year: for the man or woman in your life who is constantly quoting sports statistics
• Fact or Crap: you know those bizarre pieces of trivia that you hear and can't believe? Well, this calendar tests your credulity and asks you to guess if these "facts" are real or actually just crap.
• Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader: the TV trivia show in the form of a daily calendar
• Jeopardy!: if you can't go on the actual show, this calendar will have to suffice

For those of you who enjoy riddles, brainteasers, and puzzles, there's a calendar for you, too. More than one. If you want to start every day of the year with a nice brain workout, check out one of these calendars:

• Brainteasers, Mind Benders, Puzzles, Mazes, and More: the name says it all
• The Original Sudoku: a calendar to suit the craze that has taken over crossword-puzzlers everywhere
• Mensa 365 Brain Puzzlers: a calendar brought to you by the IQ geniuses Mensa
• The New York Times Crossword Puzzles: a NYT crossword puzzle every day of the year
• Cranium: the fun, smart board game in calendar form