I didn’t finish a single journal in 2023… 

Don’t be too hard on yourself. I think I would just glue in all the ephemra anyway. If you get a chance to write then that’s an added bonus. But I think seeing things you collected will trigger memories. In any case, I enjoyed hearing about your travels.

I personally think: If you are finished with a book, then it is finished, no matter if you filled out every last page. A lot of people leave a bunch of empty pages at the end. Not a big deal. Because empty pages can tell a story, too. 🖤🖤

Definitely go back and finish your summer journal.... the past memories can be in boxes labeled for the year and then you can go and journal in those when you feel like it and you have free time... you can also record your voice speaking about the memory boxes and be inspired from there when you listen in your free time. You can also do a journal just for past memories and have fun with it and pace yourself... go slow or as fast as you wish... take a break when you need to.... take pictures that sum up the feeling for the current days so things dont build up if you dont want them to. Make your own rules and break the ones you dont like.... art has no rules... life is art.

I think for the ephemera,journal pockets are a lot less effort and quite efficient. But if you were to glue them in then may be try to not worry about context and let them be memory objects by themselves.

Hi there, I’m a new subscriber to your channel. I love to watch journaling videos. It’s hard for me to write everyday in my journals because I will either forget to or just not be in the mood to write. I do love your pages, they’re decorated so nicely. I need to go back and finish my old journals. The journal that you shared at the end was my favorite because of all details of decorating. I’ve never seen journals like your traveling one before but yes it would definitely get on my nerves with it’s wobbling and yeah I would take the pages out and put them in an another journal. I’m going to watch your other videos. I’m enjoying your content.

I had one of those travel journals too and tried using it! I ended up ripping out the few pages I used and donating it because it was terrible to even try writing in. I guess it just shows that not all the cute journals are always practical to use lol I had a handful of journals I didn't finish last year too and I think that's okay. We can always come back to them in the future if we feel drawn to them!

For the spiral notebook, why don't you remove the rest of the pages? you can even save them and put them on a separate spiral!! Just remove this spiral, separate the empty pages and put it back on your written ones! I think this will also help preserve the notebook since it won't be that expanded any more!

Personally, I would remove the empty pages from your camp journal and let it be complete as it is. Or glue in the last few bits of "stuff" but don't worry about writing a long entry about it. Otherwise it will get pretty chunky if you try to use it again for another summer, and I like the feeling of a fresh new notebook too much, lol. Since it's spiral bound it's easy to just tear the pages out and it won't feel unfinished anymore. I think the way you used your last journal is the easiest to keep up with and not fall behind. When you have time or want to write a long entry, do that, but if you don't have time just glue the ephemera in with a date or short note. Or if you dislike that, you could even have one journal for ephemera like a smash book and another for writing. I don't really use my journals for lots of writing so my advice might not be right for you, but I know if I fall behind I will never go back no matter how much I tell myself I will, lol, that journal will just be half empty forever. Which is okay! But I like keeping all the tickets and wrappers etc. Like someone else commented, that can still bring back lots of memories, or even if it doesn't, someday in 20+ years it will still be fun to look at even if you don't remember every detail about it. Thanks for sharing!

I have a question for everybody who all goes to thrift stores like St Vincent de Paul or Goodwill? Did you know that people give away writing stuff like cool writing paper to write on or journals that are partially used or sometimes even journals that are really not used with all blank pages and people also donate pens and other writing paper and notebooks and journals? So what do you guys think about using journals and notebooks and other line paper and other writing material from a thrift store? It's not that expensive so that's one way to save money and save the writing stuff from going to the dump because I know that dumpst are starting to run out of room so I guess it's a way of like recycling if you think about it that way. The thing is if you get journals and notebooks from thrift stores you should at least take out the pages that are used and recycle those so that way you could fill it up with all your own things. It is fine going to thrift stores and hunting for writing things and sometimes you may find some other cool things to that you want to buy and thrift stores also have other things that you might like to add to a journal too. I love going to thrift stores and hunting for journaling things are things that are just writing related also if you check out the book section you may find some different books on different types of journals that you can use and these ones are like guided journals in a way so they give you ideas on what to do in those books and it's fun. So I would like to know how many people would use writing material from a thrift store? I don't see nothing wrong with using things that you find in a thrift store have fun craft things to do. Have fun searching for your writing things at thrift stores because when I go I have fun finding different items for writing and I see nothing wrong with it. What do you guys all think about getting writing materials and any kind of crafts items at a thrift store? Going to thrift stores what's saving money and you'll have fun hunting for those things. I really recommend that a lot of people do this to save the planet and so we don't have so much waste in the landfills. Also I think it's a good way of recycling if more people could look at it like that it's perfect for everyone. I suggest that people do a lot more shopping at thrift stores to find things to use for crafts are no books and journals. The Hunt is fun in a thrift store for all these different things.