Diaries: Did you have one?

I never had a diary and did not want one.

I keep a journal. I have several Traveler's Journal from TRaveler's Company in regular and passport size. They're made of cowhide leather and you can customize the notebooks and all types of inserts you want. Can even use it as your wallet. It's my calendar planner, my dump it journal, my travel journal, and gratitude journal. There was one point I used one of them as my wallet. The special one I have is from Prada, when they collaborated with Traveler's Company. As far as I know it was exclusively distributed in London. Not sure it was sold in other parts of Europe. I remember waiting for so long for it to arrive to me as I had my personal supper buy it for me in London.

I did for a while when I was a teenager until I caught my mom reading it. She could have asked and I would have told her what was in it. But she chose to break my trust and read it without asking. I threw it away and never wrote anything about how I was feeling from day to day again. *shrug*

No, I tried but after a few days, I forgot to write in it.

I did since I came to Germany in my younger years. I found my first diary and read it. I could read the young me writing her struggle in the new country. It was the innocent me and my writing was different and orderly.

I kept a diary for quite some time as a teenager. Looking back, I wonder how I even had the time to do that but I evidently did. I went to school full time and worked full time (in high school!) and had to try to keep track of little sister at the time when I could. I kept them all in a little box. After I married, I didn't keep a diary anymore, but for some reason those notebooks were still in their little case through all of life's moves, etc.--until I couldn't find the case one time when I wondered where they were. I asked my husband and he said, oh, I threw them out. I was so sad and disappointed. He hauled around cases of stuff he wanted to keep and he threw mine out? Ugh. Well, at least I haven't had to worry about that kind of stuff anymore. Mine were more about feelings and life than about anything else, I think. But writing in them helped me through some hard times, like yours must have.

While Larry was sick and after, for a while, I kept a journal. Finding it later helped lift my spirits.

I've kept various diaries/journals off and on ever since I was 11. That was a miniature one with a few lines per day, Sat & Sun shared a slot. But that was ok, as I didn't have much to say, then, anyway. Not sure if I still have it in a box somewhere, I've moved so many times since then. I just bought a new one today, being as I'm just about at the end of my current one, that I've stopped and started, stopped and started, since 2010.

Yes, as a teen. I still have it.

I had diaries from a young age but then once you read them that is it so when I left Latvia I got rid of all my diaries but kept some of the important dates and things I wanted to really temember,

I do journal almost every day and most of the things I write about are gratitudes. I go back and laugh at some of the things I was grateful for (like you) and glad I got through those tough times. Probably seems silly now to be grateful for jelly beans or a parking space but I can certainly relate to that.

I did as a kid, now I call them memoirs. LoL

I wish I would have kept a diary past the age of 18 or 19. I love going back and reading about what I did and what I was thinking. Some of the time I was dating my husband; so those days are very special to me.

'Only good girls keep diaries. The bad girls never have time'

Yes, I kept a diary as a teen. Nothing really of nite in there. I can't get myself to journal now, although I need to. In a way, I guess knot us kind of a hiyrnal.

Yes, I have one, I always had one. I write every day what we did during the day and what we ate. it's important to keep a track, often doctors ask for those details.

I never have. Those silly things helped you get through a tough time. Sometimes the little things are the best

I used to keep a diary …when I was at school, but not for many years.

I kept a diary during my high school years. I found peace in writing things that I couldn’t share with my family or friends.

When I was in grade school and up to high school I did have diaries. I discarded it 5 years after graduating in college. But I still keep some of my scrapbook.