And the globalization has made its part: It's easier to get calendars in traditional stores like shoemakers, mechanics, pet shops than in one whose products are also sold in supermarkets like groceries, butcheries and green groceries. It's not only a matter of quantity, it's a matter of memories. Each calendar, especially those that I have possessed for more than 15 years, brings me back to a time, a person, an anecdote, stores that no longer exist. To habits like "ruining" them circling the dates of the birthdays of family and friends or sticking them in the school folders to illustrate some work.

But the globalization also brought an advantage thanks to Internet: Through the net I've got in touch with collectors from all over the world, mainly from Spain, where this hobby is broadly spread. To the point that they have a Pocket Calendar Collectors Association. In the "Motherland", the collectors can even afford to devote to a specific topic, due to the great quantity of calendars that circulate. They come in series and some of them are even auctioned in Internet sites.

I don't know if the day will come, in which this hobby will turn, like philately or numismatics, a profitable business. If this is ever the case, there will be people that will compile catalogs, set rules about how to collect and which calendars will be considered "valuable". Until then, I'll enjoy the images and the memories that each of my calendars offers me gratuitously and generously.