Who keeps one? Not the appointment kind, the personal kind. I’m not really one for writing dear diary entries, but I do like to keep loads of ephemera and glue it into a scrapbook as a record of what I’ve done. (I’m currently sorting through a box of bits right now to glue into the most recent book).
Here’s an example from a couple of years ago for @AllOfThemWitches . I made a gif of all the pages when I filled it up, but it would autoplay on an annoying loop here, so here’s some of the individual pages.
You’ve already lived longer, right? It’s also a bit clearer what country you come from, and no-one’s gonna be fighting over whether you were Austrian or Czech for years on end.
I really love your idea of creating a scrapbook journal. At the moment all gig and sporting tickets get stuck on a cork board in my parent home but I’d love to try this. Might do it for 2017.
It started off being gig tickets but eventually evolved to things like food labels too. Future historians will thank me. (Although what they really love are boring diary writers who write endless things like “Had 5 fishfingers for tea and then watched the news. There was a story about the local school fete”)
i have tried to keep them in the past but never actually manage to make it a regular habit.i’m much more likely to keep up with a scrapbook sort of thing, like you’ve posted above. i found a few blank a5 exercise books recently, was thinking i’ll start one over christmas, with the intention to try and keep it up through the year. i have a box full of exhibition flyers that i hold on too, although i stopped keeping cinema tickets when i started an online log of films i’d seen.
The good thing about the scrapbook is that you don’t have to do it at the time if you don’t feel like it unlike a normal diary, you just stick the stuff in a plastic bag and stick it in when you’re in the mood.
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