Birthdays and Anniversaries

Remembering birthdays and anniversaries means associating the persons and events to the month and day. There are three methods available:

First, make a peg word for every day of the year, and use those pegs. That's a lot of work.

Second, associate the persons and the event to a peg for the month, and put a peg for the date into the picture.

Example:

Your friends John and Mary Smith married on May 23.

Your peg for May is "flowers" ("April showers bring May flowers"), so you picture John and Mary hip-deep in a giant wedding cake with flowers growing out of them and the cake.

A "gnome" (23) is trying to pull all the flowers out. Your picture gives you all the information you want: who, what event, what month, what date. Mission accomplished.

The third method is the simplest, but less exact.

Associate the persons and the event to the month and a symbol of the quarter of the month in which the event happens.

If the date falls in the second eight days of the month (9-16), put a quarter into the picture.

If the date falls in the third eight days of the month (17-24), put a half grapefruit into the picture.

If the date falls in the last part of the month (25-31), put three quarters of a pie (or just a pie) into the picture.

If the day falls in the first eight days of the month (1-8), put nothing extra into the picture. Lack of anything extra means the birthday or anniversary falls in the first eight days of the month.