Staples RY26 Wall Calendar 24x36, Gray

This calendar wasn't a great fit for the office where I work. I tried it in three different spots. The functionality worked pretty well and the paper durability was okay. I was surprised that smaller calendars actually suited my needs better. This one performed fine on its own, but it just wasn't the right match for my space.

Don't bother. This calendar is the most useless item I've ever seen. It shipped rolled in a tube and I was never able to get it to uncurl. I had it under a piece of plywood and a mattress on the floor for months and months, and the thing still curls up immediately. Anything I tried to hang it with could not withstand the curling energy. The calendar itself doesn't come with any way to hang it. There are no holes, no clips, nothing. I tried sticky tack on all four corners, then added more along the sides, but it wouldn't stay flat. I didn't want to ruin my walls with nails or tape, so sticky tack was really my only option. It's the full size of a bulletin board or even bigger, so using a bulletin board to pin it would be completely impractical. I also thought it was totally unnecessary to have the same calendar printed on both sides, one in landscape and one in portrait. That space would have been better used making the calendar a bit larger and splitting it into six-month sections. They crammed the entire year onto one sheet, and while the boxes were surprisingly a decent size, you'd still have to get up really close to read any particular day. I'm not really sure what the use of this monstrous calendar would be. On top of everything, the calendar was sent about six months before 2026 even started, so it couldn't be put into use right away. I literally left it under a board for those six months and it still curled. Because I could never get it to stay up anywhere, I can't even say whether it would have been useful.

This calendar just wasn't a good fit for my needs. The paper quality and printing are really nice, but it was difficult to hang and the date boxes were too small for practical daily use. I tried putty and glue dots, and neither got good suction on the paper's texture, so it wouldn't stay up long term. I didn't want to put holes in my wall for something like this, which limited my options. The individual date boxes were so small that I couldn't fit what I needed without abbreviating or writing extremely small. Ironically, making the boxes bigger would mean an even larger calendar, and it's already quite large as is. You need a lot of wall space to display it. I also realized I need something more month-to-month rather than a full year-at-a-glance layout, so this wasn't the right product for me. First-time buyers should know this is a very large year-long calendar that requires significant wall space to hang.

This calendar is excellent for an annual at-a-glance view, but the writing space is too small to use as a real planning or management tool. Fitting detailed information is nearly impossible. I mostly use a color-coded system so I can see from a distance what our months ahead look like, and for that purpose it works well. It's great for blocking out vacation weeks, tracking recurring activities, and bulk planning schedules. The specific details about birthday parties, school assignments, and team schedules really need to be stored somewhere else because there's just not enough room. Durability hasn't been an issue, and it's nice to have something the whole family can refer back to. Having everything on one wall is convenient for that big-picture view. That said, the space this calendar takes up compared to the amount of information I can actually fit in it has a real negative cost-benefit ratio. It's a large calendar with small writing areas, so set your expectations accordingly.