Memory A Day Calendar


 

    January 1

What was your day and date of birth?
January 2 Where were you born? Be specific.
January 3 Do you know any other circumstances of your birth? (who was present, who delivered, etc?)
January 4 If you have a childhood picture of yourself, place it here. Then tell why you picked that picture.
January 5 Name your brothers and sisters and their years of birth.
January 6 What was your mother’s full name?
January 7 What was your father’s full name?
January 8 What was your mother’s date and place of birth?
January 9 What was your father’s date and place of birth?
January 10 Tell a family nickname that you had.
January 11 How did you get that nickname?
January 12 Tell of any other nicknames in your family.
January 13 What did/does your father do for a living?
January 14 Name the towns you lived in before you were 20.
January 15 Name the childhood addresses you remember.
January 16 Tell a fond memory of your grandpa.
January 17 Tell a fond memory of your grandma.
January 18 Tell about a favorite aunt.
January 19 Tell about a favorite uncle.
January 20 Did any relatives ever live with you?
January 21 Did you ever have an imaginary friend?
January 22 When you needed punishment as a child, which parent corrected you?
January 23 What type of punishment did you receive?
January 24 Tell about the naughtiest thing you ever did.
January 25 If you got caught being naughty, describe the consequences.
January 26 Relate an experience or memory of a cousin.
January 27 Did your mother work outside the home?
January 28 What did you and your brothers or sisters fight about the most?
January 29 What was the dumbest stunt ever pulled by you and a brother or sister?
January 30 Tell about the worst winter storm that you can remember as a child.
January 31 What did you use to go sledding down a hill in the snow?
February 1 What extras did you use for your showman’s face, buttons, arms, hat, etc?
February 2 Tell of someone you envied, and why.
February 3 Do you remember the first movie you ever saw and who starred in it?
February 4 What was your favorite meat as a child?
February 5 What were you doing to first smash a finger?
February 6 Who was the most famous person you ever met as a child?
February 7 Tell about a big fib you told.
February 8 Did you ever hop a freight train? Explain.
February 9 Tell of a nickname given to you by friends or classmates.
February 10 How did you get the nickname?
February 11 Who was your first girlfriend/boyfriend?
February 12 Tell about the Valentine’s Day festivities at your school.
February 13 Tell about a special valentine you once gave.
February 14 Tell about a special valentine you once received.
February 15 Tell about your first date.
February 16 Tell about your first kiss.
February 17 Tell about your first favorite TV show.
February 18 Tell about family reunions in your childhood.
February 19 What do you remember as your favorite subject in school?
February 20 What do you remember as your least favorite school subject?
February 21 What is the biggest problem you remember having in Grade School?
February 22 What is the biggest problem you remember having in Jr. High School?
February 23 What is the biggest problem you remember having in Sr. High School?
February 24 Describe a place you liked to go to be alone.
February 25 Tell of a place that you discovered or built as a “haven” for your closest friends.
February 26 Tell about a favorite “hang out” place for you and your friends in Jr. or Sr. High School.
February 27 Tell about the best pet you ever had.
February 28 Tell about other pets you had.
March 1 Tell about being in a school play or program.
March 2 Tell about a school principal you remember.
March 3 Did you ever pretend to be sick as an excuse to stay home from school?
March 4 Do you have a good story about yourself cussing?
March 5 Tell about how you spent your Saturdays during the school year.
March 6 Tell about how you spent your Sundays.
March 7 What was the naughtiest or meanest thing you remember doing in school.
March 8 What were the consequences?
March 9 What was your favorite radio program?
March 10 What was your favorite movie as a youth? Why?
March 11 Did kids ever tease you? About what?
March 12 Tell of a difficult school essay or term paper assignment.
March 13 Tell about your first smoke.
March 14 Do you remember your first pizza?
March 15 If you went to college, tell which college you chose and why.
March 16 Tell your major and how you chose it.
March 17 Did people wear green on St. Patrick’s Day?
March 18 Do you have any other memories of St. Patrick’s Day as a youth?
March 19 If you ever hitch hiked, explain.
March 20 What do you remember as your favorite time of year? Why?
March 21 Describe some household chores you had as a child.
March 22 Describe some outside chores.
March 23 What chore did you dislike the most?
March 24 What bones have you broken and how?
March 25 Did you ever need stitches?
March 26 Do you have any other good stories about being injured?
March 27 Tell of a childhood illness.
March 28 Tell about an experience at the doctor’s.
March 29 Name your best school friends.
March 30 What were some crazy names or nicknames in your school?
March 31 Tell about a practical joke or prank you played on a person.
April 1 Do you have a good April Fool’s Day story?
April 2 Tell about a practical joke or prank someone played on you.
April 3 What did you want to be when you grew up?
April 4 Did you ever make a kite? Tell how.
April 5 Tell your experiences with kite flying.
April 6 Have you ever hunted, or tried to capture a wild animal?
April 7 Did you ever try to adopt a wild animal?
April 8 Make up a limerick about yourself.
April 9 Make up a limerick about someone else.
April 10 Relate a favorite spring memory.
April 11 Did your Mother or Dad ever find something you had hidden?
April 12 Share a memory of going to church as you were growing up.
April 13 Share a memory about a church social activity.
April 14 Tell about an Easter Egg hunt.
April 15 If your family went to Easter sunrise services, tell about it.
April 16 Tell about any other Easter traditions.
April 17 When you played make-believe, what did you pretend?
April 18 If you could return to your childhood, what would you do differently?
April 19 Is there anything you would do differently as a teenager?
April 20 Did you ever write something that you were really proud of?
April 21 What is the best book you ever read as a child?
April 22 What is the biggest physical problem you had to deal with?
April 23 Did you have any superstitions?
April 24 Where were your best hide-and-seek places?
April 25 Tell about the first time you were ever behind the wheel of a car.
April 26 Tell about another experience when you were behind the wheel of a car.
April 27 Did you ever take anything that wasn’t yours?
April 28 What did you do with it? Did you get caught?
April 29 Do you have a story about a big surprise?
April 30 What childhood fear do you remember?
May 1 What were May Baskets made of and what did they contain? Did you ever give one?
May 2 How much do you remember paying for an ice cream cone?
May 3 Did you have a tree house?
May 4 Were you ever bitten by a dog?
May 5 Did your mother ever make a special gift for you?
May 6 Relate a favorite memory of your mother.
May 7 Tell about some good advice your mother gave you.
May 8 Describe your families Mothers’ Day traditions.
May 9 Do you remember any childhood songs or rhymes?
May 10 Name some popular hit songs from your youth.
May 11 What was your favorite singing group or band?
May 12 Tell a favorite singer and a song that he/she sang.
May 13 What kind of dances did you do as a youth?
May 14 Tell about the first dance you ever went to.
May 15 Tell about your high school prom or formal dance.
May 16 Describe the military experience of someone in your family.
May 17 Share a memory involving a war during your childhood or youth.
May 18 If you have another photo of your childhood to share, place it here.
May 19 Tell about your graduation exercises or traditions.
May 20 What year did you graduate from high school?
May 21 How many students were in your graduating class?
May 22 How many students attended your high school?
May 23 Did you have homework?
May 24 Describe a very proud moment in your childhood.
May 25 Tell about Memorial Day traditions during your youth.
May 26 Share a special memory of Memorial Day.
May 27 Did you play a musical instrument?
May 28 Tell of the closest friend you had during your childhood.
May 29 Is there anything you have now that you have kept from your childhood?
May 30 Is there anything you wish you had now that you had kept from your childhood?
May 31 Do you have any good bath time stories?
June 1 What was the funniest name or nickname in your group?
June 2 Did you ever sleep under the stars?
June 3 Tell about hot dog or marshmallow roasting.
June 4 Did you ever go on a camp out? Tell about it.
June 5 Did you ever go on a snipe hunt?
June 6 What food did you learn to cook or prepare first as a youth?
June 7 Share a horse-riding story.
June 8 What was your first job?
June 9 How much did you get paid?
June 10 Tell about any other paying jobs you held as a youth.
June 11 Were you ever chased by some animal?
June 12 If you were ever in a parade, tell about it.
June 13 Tell another memory about a parade.
June 14 Share a childhood memory about a death that affected you.
June 15 Relate your happiest memory as a youth.
June 16 How did you learn to swim?
June 17 Where did you go swimming?
June 18 Did you ever go skinny-dipping?
June 19 Tell a favorite memory of your father.
June 20 Tell about some good advice your father gave you.
June 21 Did your father ever make a special gift for you?
June 22 Did you ever make mud pies?
June 23 Did you go barefoot in the summer?
June 24 If so, relate and experience about stepping in something.
June 25 Did you have a special nature place where you went to explore?
June 26 Tell about a bike you had.
June 27 Tell about your first very own car.
June 28 Did you ever have or make a swing?
June 29 Describe an outside game you made up.
June 30 Describe an inside game you made up.
July 1 What kind of fireworks did people have when you were a youth?
July 2 Tell about Independence Day traditions of your childhood.
July 3 Do you have a special July 4th that you remember most?
July 4 Did you ever go to carnivals or amusement parks? Where?
July 5 What kinds of rides and games were there? How much did they cost?
July 6 Tell about any State Fair or County Fair experiences.
July 7 Tell about going to a circus.
July 8 Tell any favorite summertime memory.
July 9 Did you go fishing in your childhood?
July 10 Tell about your biggest or best catch.
July 11 Do you remember having a favorite candy? How much did it cost?
July 12 Do you remember having a favorite snack that you made at home?
July 13 Share a memory about going on a picnic.
July 14 What kinds of party games or party activities were popular?
July 15 Share a memory involving a heat wave or drought.
July 16 What did you do to stay cool?
July 17 What was your favorite holiday of the year?
July 18 Share a birthday party memory.
July 19 Tell about the neatest shoes you ever owned as a youth.
July 20 Share a memory about a power outage.
July 21 Relate a memory involving a flood or cloudburst.
July 22 Relate a memory of a hurricane, tornado, or destructive wind.
July 23 What memories do you have of lightning or thunder during your childhood?
July 24 Did you like it when it thundered and lightning? Why?
July 25 Share a special memory about riding in a boat.
July 26 Tell about a family vacation trip.
July 27 Share the best vacation experience you can recall.
July 28 Share the most unpleasant vacation experience you can recall.
July 29 Do you have any other memories about a river, lake or beach to share?
July 30 Tell a memory about riding on a ferry, bus, train, or plane.
July 31 Share another memory about a ride.
August 1 Did you receive any good advice from a neighbor? What was it?
August 2 Tell of an experience climbing a mountain or big hill.
August 3 Tell a memory about having company at your house, or of a family party.
August 4 Tell about board games you played as a child.
August 5 Tell about card games you played.
August 6 Did you ever have a weight problem as a youth?
August 7 What was your best talent?
August 8 Tell about a time when you got lost.
August 9 Did you ever play in the sprinkler or hose?
August 10 Tell about being stung by a bee or wasp.
August 11 Did you have any favorite family songs that you sang together?
August 12 Tell about your bedroom as a youth.
August 13 Share a memory of staying overnight with a friend.
August 14 If you ever ran away from home, tell about it.
August 15 Do you remember being really curious about something?
August 16 Share your childhood experiences with roller skates.
August 17 Did you ever experience homesickness?
August 18 Can you tell about your first tastes of pop or soda?
August 19 Share an early experience with shaving or wearing make-up.
August 20 Tell about a favorite doll, teddy bear, or other stuffed toy.
August 21 Tell about another favorite toy.
August 22 Did you have to abide by a curfew as a youth?
August 23 Describe any “follow the leader” games you played.
August 24 Describe how you used a phone to call a friend.
August 25 Did you ever have a fire in your home or accidentally catch something on fire?
August 26 Tell about going to box socials or potlucks.
August 27 Tell about an incident when you were very angry with your mom or dad.
August 28 Tell about an incident when your mom or dad was very angry with you.
August 29 Share a memory involving an outhouse.
August 30 Tell about your school year calendar.
August 31 Do you have a memory involving V.J. Day?
September 1 Do you remember any Labor Day traditions of your youth?
September 2 What do you remember about your first day of school?
September 3 Tell about a school bully.
September 4 What do you remember doing at recess?
September 5 Tell about the playground equipment at your grade school.
September 6 Did your parents ever make you wear something stupid to school?
September 7 Tell about who you thought was the smartest kid in school and why.
September 8 Tell about who you thought was the dumbest kid in school and why.
September 9 Tell about the naughtiest kid in school.
September 10 Tell about a teacher’s pet.
September 11 Name the schools that you went to.
September 12 What was your most embarrassing school moment?
September 13 Name the Grade School teachers you remember.
September 14 Name the Jr. High School teachers you remember.
September 15 Name the High School teachers you remember
September 16 Describe your typical school day outfit.
September 17 If you were ever in a fight, tell about it.
September 18 Tell about your worst report card.
September 19 If you ever had a hero, tell who.
September 20 Tell why they were your hero.
September 21 Who was the best teacher you ever had?
September 22 What made that teacher good?
September 23 What were your school colors?
September 24 What was you school mascot?
September 25 Tell any sports you played in Jr. High School.
September 26 What was your favorite sport to participate in or watch?
September 27 Did you ever have a “good friend” who did something mean to you?
September 28 Do you remember a school custodian?
September 29 What is the worst trick that you remember a student playing on a teacher?
September 30 What is the worst thing a teacher did to a student?
October 1 Tell about your school lunches. Did you have a lunch box? What did you eat?
October 2 Did you ever have a crush on a teacher?
October 3 Do you have any special memories about raking and burning leaves, or mowing the lawn?
October 4 If you ever played in the leaves, tell about it.
October 5 What allowance did you get?
October 6 Did you have to earn it?
October 7 What teacher did you dislike the most?
October 8 Why did you dislike them?
October 9 Relate a story about a mouse in the house.
October 10 Share a memory about a bird in the house.
October 11 Did you ever have any other strange animals in the house?
October 12 How did you get to and from school?
October 13 Tell about pulling or losing a baby tooth.
October 14 Did you ever lose something really important to you?
October 15 Did you ever lose or break something that belonged to someone else?
October 16 Where did the clothes that you wore come from?
October 17 Share a favorite fall memory.
October 18 Did you ever pick apples?
October 19 What is the farthest you ever ran or walked?
October 20 Did your high school have cheerleaders? What did they wear?
October 21 Can you recite any of the school cheers?
October 22 How did your school observe Homecoming?
October 23 Do you have any special Homecoming experiences to relate?
October 24 Tell about any other high school extracurricular activities.
October 25 Tell a story about a time when you dressed up in a costume.
October 26 Share a memory about being very scared.
October 27 What did people do at Halloween?
October 28 Do you have a special Halloween memory?
October 29 Did you ever tell ghost stories?
October 30 Do you have a good ghost or haunted house story to relate?
October 31 What is the strangest thing you ever saw in the sky?
November 1 When you were a child, how did you keep your house warm?
November 2 Who was the President when you were born?
November 3 At what age did you first vote and for whom did you cast your first Presidential vote?
November 4 Did you ever see a President or a Vice-President in person?
November 5 Did you ever make a purchase that you later regretted?
November 6 When on car trips, did you play “care games”?
November 7 If you had a watch, tell about it.
November 8 Do you have an Armistice Day memory?
November 9 What was your most prized possession as a child?
November 10 The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice you give to others.
What would that advice be?
November 11 Did you ever feel a hatred for another person? Explain.
November 12 Tell about the best birthday present you ever received.
November 13 Was an injustice ever done to you?
November 14 Share an experience about poison ivy or oak, or a poison weed.
November 15 Tell about a memorable birthday cake.
November 16 Did you ever have a recurring dream as a child?
November 17 Tell about someone who had a big influence over your life.
November 18 Share a memory about a weather-related school cancellation.
November 19 Tell about Thanksgiving traditions of your youth.
November 20 What food where on your Thanksgiving table?
November 21 Share a favorite Thanksgiving memory.
November 22 Do you have any ice-skating memories to share?
November 23 What hobbies or collections did you have as a youth?
November 24 Did your mom or dad have a favorite remedy for what ailed you?
November 25 Tell about seeing something you thought was very beautiful
November 26 Did anyone from your school or community grow up to be famous?
November 27 Did you ever have a bad experience with a haircut or permanent?
November 28 Who was your favorite movie star?
November 29 Why were they your favorite?
November 30 Were you ever in a life-threatening situation?
December 1 If you have another childhood picture of yourself, put it here.
December 2 Do you have any knowledge of how your first name was chosen?
December 3 Tell about your favorite store to browse in as a child.
December 4 What did you like to look at there?
December 5 Tell about something you built, designed or made as a youth.
December 6 Were you ever in a church or school Christmas or Holiday pageant?
December 7 When did you put up your Christmas tree?
December 8 Where did you get your Christmas tree from?
December 9 How did you decorate your tree?
December 10 Did you hang a Christmas stocking?
December 11 Did your Grandpa or Grandma ever make gifts for you? What?
December 12 Tell about the neatest present you remember giving to your mom.
December 13 Tell about the neatest present you remember giving to your dad.
December 14 Tell about the best Christmas present you ever received.
December 15 Tell about the worst Christmas present you ever received.
December 16 Tell about your experiences with Santa Claus.
December 17 Did your family go to a special church service at Christmas? Tell about it.
December 18 When did you open your presents?
December 19 Tell about Holiday celebrations at a relative’s house.
December 20 Do you remember a “best” Christmas?
December 21 Share any other Christmas memory.
December 22 Do you remember celebrating any special wedding anniversaries of your parents or grandparents?
December 23 Do you have any knowledge of the origins of your family name?
December 24 Tell about a favorite toy.
December 25 What smells reminds you of Christmas?
December 26 What was your favorite pet? What was its name?
December 27 What did you do that made you really proud?
December 28 Is there anything else that you would like others to know about your childhood?
December 29 Did you ever make a New Year’s resolution as a youth?
December 30 What special memories do you have of New Year’s Eve?
December 31 What special memories do you have of New Year’s Day?

 

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   November 26,  2006

 

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