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?

(If you answer elsewhere, drop us a link in the comments.)

Comments

Destroy

[oldtoadwoman]

There's sometimes a fuzzy line between "journal" and "sketchbook" or "scrapbook", so I do have two or three "journals" that I haven't destroyed. (I keep all my sketchbooks and just have them stored in a box in my closet.) But anything that is pure journal gets destroyed almost as soon as I complete it. I flip through it and copy out anything important into the next journal and then tear it up. (I really wish I had a backyard firepit because burning feels like a nice symbolic act of releasing the past.)

I think I'm embarrassed by the idea that anyone would read my journal and I think it's a three-way tie between weird thoughts, to-dos that were never done, and to-dos that at this point in my life I feel like I should remember to do without writing myself a note.

Re: Destroy

[lunabee34]

Setting things on fire is so wonderfully cathartic, isn't it?

Re: Destroy

[oldtoadwoman]

Fire is so pretty! (When it's not out of control and terrifying.)

Re: Destroy

[lunabee34]

So true!