I'm so excited.

My first thought would be a bank safety deposit box. Other than that maybe a safe. You know sometimes we are too protective of those around us and we do them an injustice by not letting them know how we feel because, they never have the opportunity to learn the lesson that goes with all of that. I have found stuff I wrote and wondered who was this person!

In a Bank's Safe Deposit box. that way they will be fireproof And out of the hands of prying eyes.If not in a bank than in a steel box that locks and only you have the key. I believe there are thesetype of boxes at staples.com.

It's a good thing that you found them! As a diarist myself, I keep a lot of notebooks, journals and random pieces of paper where I've written things. Keep them because looking back on your thoughts and feelings in the past can be somehow helpful, no matter how dark that past may be. Where to put them? Well mine are just in one box and fortunately for me having someone else stumble onto them is unlikely. Maybe you can store yours in a box as well, with a lock. I am suddenly reminded of my journals covering most of my teenage life (13-17) which I all burned before I ran away from home when I was 17. I really, really wish I didn't do that. About the thing that I thought I lost forever, that would be a couple hundred photographs that disappeared when an online photo storage account of mine suddenly disappeared. They were all on Photobucket, and suddenly my account did not exist. I was unhappy for weeks and then thought about accepting it. Then, one time I looked into an old Multiply account of mine which I hadn't opened for a long time. The photographs were there! I had forgotten that I used this photobucket feature where my photographs were copied into my Multiply account. So now I have a the photos back and I had them copied in several places.

Wow, that is a tough one. I guess I am the kind of writer that if I can't share it, whether freely or have it published, it isn't something I would keep. I guess if I were you, I would put all my writing on a flash drive and maybe find a safe place to put it, either in a safe or a safe deposit box.

When I was in junior high, we had this ritual like thing going on where everyone had a diary and everyone of their friends and teacher wrote some good/silly stuffs to the owner of the diary. It was fun then, I just forgot what it was called. Anyway it was couple years ago and last summer as I was cleaning up my room, I found it. I had completely forgotten about it. I read it through and had lots of memories come back and i felt kinda nostalgic at the same time. And gosh my handwriting was somuch better before

I think you should sacn them and save it in the computer in a hidden folder, or create a file that you rename so only you can see it. I haven't find anything that makes m remember my past and that I don't want anybody see it, and if that would be the case I just burn it.

Hi Barb! That's really a good find! I remember the time when I found my old diaries which contain my deepest secrets. I was happy to found it and reading them again really gave me a good time and good laughs. But most of it were embarrassing, those were the days of my youths. I decided to burn a lot of them but I kept some of it just for souvenirs. I keep it in my closet, buried in a box, and I always keep my closet locked whenever I go out.

Hi bagarad, If those were just writings, no illustrations or pictures, you can get it transfered online in a secret blog. When I went through a rough period in my life, I blogged about it but no one could read it except for me. It was not available online. I'm thinking of what to do with it as well. My story could be written in a novel. But since the affected people are still alive, it may not be a good idea, unless I use a different name. I did ever tell a friend that if I ever get through this rough patch, I would write about it. The tough times are over and I have yet to write my book. I think it would be painful reliving the moments. I guess I'm not ready yet. I guess there are some things others can learn from my situation and in future, if I have the resources I would set up a support group for these people like me. Such support groups are seriously lacking here because the topic is taboo. I know because I was looking for one. I eventually found one but it is now closed.

Such a timely question! Just yesterday I found my smaller dog's favorite squeeky toy that we had given up on as lost forever a few months back. We searched this house at least three times looking for that toy. It's her favorite, I believe, because it is an extra small toy (my dog weighs six pounds) and, the main reason I think, it had never been destroyed by my older dog in a few years which is a miracle in itself. I've been sleeping in another bedroom because, well, the biggest reason is because my husband snores and has sleep apnea but refuses to use his CPAP machine at night. I didn't have another bed at this house (I had one at my other vacant house 250 miles from here) so I bought one of those roll away beds and have been sleeping on that. I also added a few layers of memory foam to the mattress to make it "taller". Well, this past weekend I drove down to my other house with the main purpose of bringing back the twin-sized bed. My son went with me to lend me his muscles. I brought it back Sunday and started to get the roll away bed put away when I noticed my dog's squeeky toy had somehow managed to get between the layers of the memory foam! I squeeked it and gave it to my dog. You should have seen her! She was beside herself, running all through the house with it, squeeking it as she went. I don't think she let go of that thing for at least an hour. As I type, it's lying right beside her. So, I'm happy because I have a bonafied bed ( ) and my little girl is ecstatic because she has her all-time favorite toy back. I'd have to say that, yes, the toy does seem as valuable now that we have it back.

I think the things that we thought we lost are the things that are the most valuable when you find it. Pictures have been the most valuable things that I have ran across. It's amazing the moments that we capture and run back across.

I do keep my old diaries.I find them even more valuable than before. It reminds me of how I was able to overcome the trials and difficulties I had and the of God's faithfulness everlasting and unconditional love. It is a treasures to keep because it is part of myself, my experience and my life. No matter how ugly or how sad it was, I like to re-read them. As I try to do that, there are some insights I get from it. It's like -retracing my life before and learning from it . It actually helps me to become a mature person and helps me understand myself better. Whenever, there are similar situation at present, I know how to handle it with stability, objectivity and calmness. From time to time, I read them and I enjoy reading it again and again. I even think of publishing it especially the poetry, the quotes, the drawings and paintings. Why not have it published with some revisions that would be appealing to the readers.

dear bagard,every time i loose even a small thing from the house,i feel i have lost it forever as i have a little kiddo in the house who is too busy in throwing away my things and i have no clue where she hides them all.and after a few days when i fetch them back from somewhere,i feel so glad that i still owe my things and they aren't lost somewhere. i used to write diary when i was in college and it had lot of emotions hidden in it.when i was leaving my college,i left the diary with my room mate and asked her to discard it.i don't know if she discarded it or she still has it with her.i wish i could hold that back again but then i wish that it shouldn't land in anybody's hand except me.as it has many painful memories and all my struggles of that period,i don;t want anybody else to see all those.i don;t know if i would ever get to have that diary back to me.

you should keep it in a safety deposit box with instruction that it should be thrown out. but God forbid should you die, if people would read it, i don't think they'd be mad at you. sometimes, what we write during our toughest times are true, they may be painful but more often than not, somehow they have some truth in it. I found my old journals when I was still in grade school and high school and i wrote some pretty nasty things about my cousin. I get angry really bad and my only outlet at that time was my journal. and when I came home back in college, i saw that my journals were displayed in one of the shelves for everyone to read. it was pretty awkward when I found out but nobody really talked about it. they just blamed my temper tantrums for it. I still kept them since those were my memories for those time. :D

I started writing my diaries when I was at grade school, I keep them all in my mini lib which has a cabinet only myself can access. Other than that, like poetries and articles, I keep the hard copies in a stack and the others are in my portable hard drive. :)

The worse thing I can think of that I lost is some really kool pictures years ago when my children were little we had a neighbor who did photography come to our house and take family photos.. some of the proofs in between the shots saved were really cute (when we were disorganized) I thought I put them in a certain place but they never turned up and I figure I threw them away by mistake.. but still can't imagine how I did it..

Sorry, so long in replying ....but am really vascillating over this question...And my answer, for me (if it were me) I would take the bull by the horns and destroy them! My situation is quite different from yours..the only family member that I have left ..is my son! AND I would NOT want him to stumble across "something this personal" after my demise, and have him read what a "bad" place/space I had been in! I feel that would be a plague for him--but I am also ONE....that will NOT participate in an "open-viewing" memorial! I don't want that last memory--to be a tainted memory...I prefer to revel in the good memories! Just my take on things...dear lady!

I am very happy for you. I wish I could find a few things that I have misplaced. One is a ring that I put someplace so the kids wouldn't find it. When the time came that I had enough money to fix it I couldn't find it and have never found it back again! It would be valuable if I could find it back.....

Some of those things are like wonderful little surprises, but others I flinch and throw them away, lol. Glad you are having such a good time recovering your writings and your urge to keep writing. It is good to do that.

I have your same experience.When I read my diary,I thought it recall my unhappy thing and ever hurt the person I love.So I bait it and throw it out.I just remind the happy in the my draws, and enjoy it my family.

i might keep them online and type it. the page would be password protected hopefully. I don't trust deposit boxes that much.