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

[annofowlshire]

I do a purge every decade or two. I’ve done some post purges on my old LJ, and I’m sure I’ll do some on my newer DW at some point. I’ve abandoned many a planner app over the years and whatever their contents were. I even lost a few years worth of 750 Words journaling (a couple million words) when I purged that, which I sort of regret now only because I’m using it again and I don’t have a free founder account anymore. But all the stuff in it? I didn’t need that anymore.

I didn’t have many pen and paper records from before 2014 but much of what I had I don’t have anymore so I imagine I must have shredded them at some point. From around 2014*, I have amassed a ton of paper journals/planners (and longhand written fiction) and they are all stuffed into various drawers and such in my office. I do need to go through them at some point, though, as I’m pretty much out of space.

(My life went through a series of major upheavals around 2012-16 in which many things were lost or purposely discarded/destroyed until the remains of my life fit into a tiny corner of a shared 20 foot container and I moved to a new country.)

[lunabee34]

I am a periodic purger of all things. I find it cathartic.

The only thing I've ever purged on my LJ/DW are some private posts I thought the better of making in retrospect, though.

[annofowlshire]

Usually instead of truly purging on LJ/DW I tend to make a post private, but I did some years ago go back and simply delete some old whiny posts I’d made back when I was like 20 and posted about every moment/feeling of my day 😂