Journal Jam Fall 2022 Day 2

[annofowlshire]

Day 2 Question:

Do you keep your old journals/planners, or do you get rid of them? If you keep them, how do you store them, and do you have a longterm plan for them? If you get rid of them, do you throw them away? Burn them? Something else?

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Comments

[moomintroll]

I keep all of mine because they're my memories. I don't journal in an emotional or angsty way, it's mostly introspection and what I got up to. Keeping my journals allows me to go back and see my growth, or sometimes even where I've stagnated to help me see how I need to change course. I often scrapbook in my journals too, and keep tickets to everything so they feel like real time capsules and are something I enjoy looking back through.

I don't have too many right now as I only started seriously journaling in 2018 so they're easy to store in a box under my bed. I'd like to eventually have a bookshelf I can put them on in my private office. Obviously they're not something I necessarily want others reading, but it's not deeply private enough to be under lock and key either.

I did have some older angsty journals, and I destroyed them. I just tore out the pages and put them through the shredder, and then put the book in the recycling. Nowadays I vent on loose paper so I can just throw it away after a few days as sometimes it's beneficial to get all of that stuff out and can help me see answers, but it's usually irrelevant after the situation has passed.

[lunabee34]

I have a terrible memory, and I feel the same way about my journals. They really help me remember my life in a way that I would not be able to without them.