In the spirit of letting go of stuff, I decided that I don’t need to keep all my old work notebooks. I paged through them to make sure I hadn’t stuck any important keep-worthy things in the pages (I had) and stacked them up to memorialize them in pictures.
They are very cute:
It’s a bit hard to let them go, I’m not going to lie. But I think it’s ok.
Some things I’ve learned:
- It’s ok to not always use my notebooks. It’s not a rule that I must use them. If I’m in a period during which notetaking isn’t helpful that’s fine. I pick it up again when I need it again.
- Lined notebooks are way better for me, except that if I’m in a doodling phase, lines are annoying.
- Hard cover notebooks are way better.
- A good pen that writes nicely is key! Really really key. When I don’t have a good pen, I don’t take good notes.
- My handwriting is really getting worse with time. I’m not sure if I care enough to fix that but it’s worth noticing.
- I never actually went back to previous notebooks like I thought I would.
Now I have to figure out how to dispose of them! I’m not inclined to just put them in the garbage. As it’s winter here where I live, I might use the pages as fire starters. We shall see; even though I’ve decided to let them go, they haven’t made it out of my room yet 😆 so I guess the story is, as yet, unfinished.
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