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janterry

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15. I know someone who does. She keeps them with her journals

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Sat Sep 29, 2018, 03:23 PM

Sep 2018

She's in her late 40's, but she has records and journals from when she was in HS. She likes to look back and she what she was doing, how she was feeling - and how she has changed.

It's sort of how she sees herself in the world (as a writer, and an introspective thinker)

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Still want to know--who in the world keeps calendars for so many years? [View all] bobbieinok Sep 2018 OP

An incredible packrat/hoarder, I guess. But pretty hard to fathom. hlthe2b Sep 2018 #1

a friend of my mom's still has calendars from the 80's. JHan Sep 2018 #2

Serial killers keep trophies.....maybe this was the start of something for Kav Lucinda Sep 2018 #3

I was thinking the same thing. blueinredohio Sep 2018 #14

yes, I was thinking, too, that these calendars are trophies of glory days, perhaps CharleyDog Sep 2018 #34

Mommie enid602 Sep 2018 #4

Well, my wife has been keeping detailed journals for decades. MineralMan Sep 2018 #5

and imagine how much more you would need all of that if you and your wife were blackout drunks. irresistable Sep 2018 #24

Kavanaugh already SCREAMED that explanation... lame54 Sep 2018 #6

Proof by Intimidation, as we called it Retrograde Sep 2018 #10

That's why I believe Sean Spicer when... lame54 Sep 2018 #18

Someone with an inflated sense of their importance? Retrograde Sep 2018 #7

I'm going for the "box of stuff in the attic" theory. StatGirl Sep 2018 #8

Anyone notice snowybirdie Sep 2018 #9

I saw what you did there. Lochloosa Sep 2018 #13

Boofiful post Roland99 Sep 2018 #20

That was going to be my answer. llmart Sep 2018 #21

I saw it but I simplified it thinkingagain Sep 2018 #35

Due to the electronic age, I have mine back to 2012. treestar Sep 2018 #11

I have a relative who never throws anything away The Genealogist Sep 2018 #12

I know someone who does. She keeps them with her journals janterry Sep 2018 #15

My theory is he kept this so his parents wouldn't know what he was up to CanonRay Sep 2018 #16

Poor memory? moondust Sep 2018 #17

run some carbon dating on the paper nt msongs Sep 2018 #19

I'm a huge sentimentalist. I kept nothing like for more than a few yrs Roland99 Sep 2018 #22

I have some... Mike Nelson Sep 2018 #23

Someone who thought they would be VERY famous one day and every little shit they'd made would go fierywoman Sep 2018 #25

Serial killers blue cat Sep 2018 #26

my wife keeps them getagrip_already Sep 2018 #27

Mothers do! JohnnyLib2 Sep 2018 #28

Having them, OK. Finding them?! That's tougher. flor-de-jasmim Sep 2018 #29

I had a journal, a scrapbook, a little box of momentos tavernier Sep 2018 #30

so sorry about your home!! I totally related about the duffle bag... samnsara Sep 2018 #33

i had a 12 month at a glance wall calender during my college years.... samnsara Sep 2018 #31

Someone who's planning to write marybourg Sep 2018 #32

I did dumbcat Sep 2018 #36

Call me a skeptic pecosbob Sep 2018 #37

They said that's task number 1, the calendar forensics democratic friend Sep 2018 #38