How Do You Dispose Calendars? Especially With God Pictures?

Good question. I am also facing the same issue.

 

Recently I watched a religious channel where similar question was raised to a religiously learned person. He replied that the old calendars can be disposed in the way we dispose newspapers (giving them away for weight) and there is no wrong in it since we purchase new calendars and we don't perform any pooja to the calendars. This reply seemed to make sense and I disposed off the old calendars which I had also accumulated a lot of them.

 

And from the next time try not to purchase or keep a lot of calendars with religious images. Just realized I have no calendar in my home!

 

Twelve sheet calendars without religious pictures like temples adorned deities and those small dates and big deity pictures printed on foils are always welcome at the beginning of the year. I used to get too many and I at once go and deliver to my chums or give it as a surprise . I distribute swami pada calendars at the temple visitors who take it happily.

TTD Thirmala Thirupathi Devasthanam calendars are of 12 high quality art sheets that one won't like to easily part with. Preceding years TTD's calendars, each sheet I gave away to individual devotees who later became thick friend and thus it helped in a way to enlarge my beneficial-like-minded friends circle.
Other company Calendars 12 or 6 sheets thick ones I & my spouse make a small note books to use back side blank portion for writing grocery list or solve maths problems. We would give such note-books made using stapler pins. (there is a method to use stapler to pin along the folded collection of sheets to note size)
We do get daily tearer with deity pics on card hard boards and even on plywood with profile cut or contour cut image of deity. These too after its use or as surplus given to devotees thronging the temple. (yesterday I noticed in shiva vishnu temple a young lady receiving back a heavy packet from priest coming out of sanctum. She unpacked and offered as prasad to each of the devotees. It was not pongal or dry fruits or hard vada but a ball point pen. When I asked her for details about giving such a novel prasad, she said her daughter is studying +2 and the prayer was that she pass with flying colours).

In some calendars one would see unwanted or undesirable printed matter surrounding the beautiful pic of the deity. I cover it with some other printed message or sloka and use it. I use thick calendar sheets to wrap new novels.

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I was faced with this issue very recently. I cleaned up my pooja room and had a surplus of God pictures, idols and decor. I tried taking them to a temple to keep there but they asked me to take it out of there . I tried giving it away to my local community but noone wanted it.

Then the only place I could donate it to was the local Goodwill because I dont visit India.

 

To keep me as a you g boy dad engaged me in making a rolling or revolving calendar using old calendar sheets. With help of scissors and gum and sticks from hard broom and an empty match box I was busy.

 

I also face same issue, i also live abroad and have seen my MIL just shred in the paper shredder.

 

Hi @Sony23
Welcome to the world of debate & discussions in IL.
Shredder invented to destroy papers the contents of which needs to be kept secret. But anything based or produced using tree pulp can be disposed off in shredder which are uncommon in family homes. After shredding too again the disposal of waste stands.