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I shelve my sketchskines, in order. I don't keep really personal jounals -- haven't since my 30s but suppose I would box them and keep them out of sight.. I also shelve my agendas in order for future reference. If someone asks to see a sketchskine they're usually happy with my current book. If not the back numbers are easy to find.
My paintings and drawings are all over the place and that's usually what people want to look at.
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I have my journals from middle school and high school (1996-2001) in milk crates. I don't care about the high school ones, they quite frankly suck. The ones from mid 2001 onto early 2005 are on a shelf. For some silly reason I started to put my journals from summer of 2005 on in a box that is at the foot of my bed. The main reason for this is, (I think) is I started to write more candidly about sex and I just don't want those out in the open. I know my mom doesnt go in my room, but still. If I lived by myself and had friends over all the time, I would just put those journals in shelves in plain view with the other "good" ones.
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For some reason I never completely fill one up but I keep them in Acid Free photo boxes.
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Put them on a shelf. :)
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I just give mine straight to my official biographer.
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I number mine and put them on a shelf, but they do look kind of lonely up there, I guess that's why I'm scanning my favourite bits and putting them here, so they can have a bit more of a life out in the world...like shy children who you have to push a little. I do have a fantasy where one day I get to publish a stylish book of my favourite journal entries, maybe even bound to look just like one of my journals.
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Mine are never truely finished since I continuously draw, paint, or glue in them, at times I've been known to cut images from them for larger projects. In other words they sit out on the corner of one of my work tables. If at sometime a publisher would like to do something with one of them I suppose that "finished" one would go off with them.
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Are everywhere! :)
In general on the shelf, on the desk, near a book, on pc, in bed etc. etc. :D
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I just started a month ago and have yet to finish one.
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I keep a finished Moleskine in my backpack. Maybe I'm afraid to let go of it? It could be hope personified- so many good things happened in that journal. Otherwise I have a Cahier and a regular one in my room sitting my shelves.
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the bottom drawer of my nightstand.
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agree- i get quite attatched to one but usually they're kept hidden somewhere in the house.
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they're all on a shelf in my studio. labeled w/ the start & end dates....
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menwuur [deleted] says:
mine have a spot on the shelf- i get so attatched to each one while im filling it up that its always hard to put it up in the shelf and start a fresh one but after a few weeks i start getting attatched to the new one- Which makes it good when looking back a year later and reading old journals you forget where so special
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My Cow Parade one is getting auctioned off for charity! (see Lot 8)
Makes a nice change from it snuggling up to the others on a bookshelf, though they do make for great nostalgia trips. They certainly look nifty side by side on a shelf, a little ragged and tatty but full of good times.
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I put my quiet time journals on the shelf, in order. When I'm down to about twenty pages or so to complete on, I buy a new one, and number the pages. I'm already thinking about what I'll put on the cover of my next one - I just used p. 147 of 240 this morning.
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Falling Sky -- that's a great thing to do with a Moleskine. It would be so very hard for me to part with one of them.
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That is a great question, Simone!
Since I only really journal when I'm globetrotting, I have only a few completed journals - but they are my most precious relics from my trips abroad. I keep them individually sealed in Ziploc bags and stacked in a shoebox. That shoebox sits near my computer so I can easily access them. I run a website on budget travel so I get quite a few questions about the places I've been. If someone asks me about a hostel I stayed at, a hiking path I traversed, or how long it took for me to get from one place to the next, I'd be able to easily grab the appropriate journal to find out details that might have slipped from my memory but probably jotted down in my journal.
Another reason I keep my journals near my desk is because it is so close to my front door. If a fire was to break out in my apartment, I'd know exactly where to look for the most priceless objects I own.
To view some of the pages of my travel journals, click here
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@ Retro Taveller---Those are some great journals. Funny about the fire. I would too save the journals and photo albums ...
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Interesting topic. I keep the mere few recent ones (blank or used) in my nightstand shelf. For really old ones that have only a few pages in them, I keep in them plastic file folder boxes (along with old letters and such) in an unused closet.
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Since I am new, my journals are one two moleskines deep right now. My other journals, going back to sixth grade, are in a locked box. I started when I was in 6th grade, and I am 36 now. 30 minutes a day, except for two years after bad events when I was scared to wwrite.
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BURN THEM!!!!
(in reality i keep all my sketchbooks in a shoebox)
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This post tells all. :-)
Most of my journals (almost exclusively writing) reside in a steamer trunk. Every so often I go through an intense period where I type them up. Once in a while I find an entry that I use as a blog post, or I submit it somewhere. (One such entry has just been published in Issue 60 of Reed.) I've also performed a couple of entries at open mics.
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mine get packed away somewhere. usually not on a shelf as shelf=space is at a premium at my place. at the moment they are all in a cardboard box in the back of my wardrobe. i seldom look at them again.
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It hasn't arrvied yet, but I bought a "Boxskin" on Etsy that is made to hold 10 pocket Molies, and it's covered in the same fabric as the notebooks.
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Mine sit on prime real estate: on the shelf immediately above my desk. I keep a table of contents on the first pages of each book, and aggregate the tables of index into a Master Moleskine Index binder that also lives just above the desk.
I use one book at a time, about one per month, and refer to them frequently.
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I've started keeping the 10+ blank notebooks on a bookcase, the recently used notebooks in a small cabinet by the bed, and the old used ones still in storage boxes.
I eventually might get some sort of trunk to store them all in.. perhaps a large wooden "keepsake" trunk.
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I have been thinking about this lately and wondered what I'd do if there was a fire. I'm thinking about a firesafe box or maybe a safety deposit box with my other stuff, may sound a little extreme but most of mine are written for my children and I would hate to see anything happen to them.
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I put them on a shelf or drawer.
To SharonNYC: Are you a "matera"? I'm a yerba mate yunkie. My collection of mate gourds and bombillas is almost as embarrasing as my stock of moleskines.!! Sipping mate while moleskineing is one of my everyday pleasures.
And then you have pics of Portugal and Andalucía! Nice; I lived in Seville for 25 years; currently living in a small town near Portugal, the beach and the Guadiana river.
I gotta scan some of my pics of my yerba mate-moleskines compositions (I haven't gone digital yet).
Juan in Andalucía
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they sit in a drawer, and get dusty
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gracie-
Interesting that you mention a firesafe.
I've wondered why no one has mentioned that, yet.
My dad's family lost nearly everything in a house fire. But, housefires are relatively uncommon-- some of us will never have that happen. And, really, the memories still exist for them despite losing everything. Frankly, when a person dies, most of their stuff goes in the junk heap anyway.
There's plenty of risks with paper and material objects-- it could be water damaged (flood), burned (fire), inaccessible (fire in multi-story house, with the fire safe itself out of reach or unreachable), lost, stolen, etc. And, would the books preserve well without any airflow (like in a safe)?
I would try to keep them handy in case you need to evacuate your house, but really digital photos of the main (or all) pages put privately online might be the best bet.
I think that a person should of course keep the actual paper copy-- but I don't know that there's a solid way to preserve your items forever.
At some point, a kid or grandkid, etc. might accidentally lose (or not care about) them, or they could get damaged in a fire/etc. years down the road.
At the end of the day, our writings matter most to us-- not anyone else, so we have to keep in mind that they're namely for us. They could be in the trash in 100 years, or they could be in the hands of a grand grandchild. So, we do the basics to protect them... while not going overboard. People will remember the memories more than the actual books, IMO.
I'm all about preservation, but at what point do you stop? Get a bolted fireproof safe in a vaulted, waterproof part of the house?
Put in your will a 'caretaker' of the books/items? Then, what about photos, clothes, sporting memorabilia, etc. that a person collects over the years? Someone would need a gigantic safe.
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All my teens diaries were burned. That was still too nice to them, but I could not think of anything more radical to do to them. My writing notebooks are on a shelf in order of project. My France notebooks are in my husband's care, since they were addressed to him. My current notebooks are on a shelf, dated.
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Fortunate_One [deleted] says:
never finish one but, I've got several laying around on shelves... now this gets slight off topic because it's not a Moleskine journal but....
when ex-husband and split up, one thing that I made sure to get and take with me was a book I've been using as a book journal since 1999- everytime I finish a book, I write it in there with a brief note about it- I moved in with a roommate, took the book journal with me- I moved out suddenly after a fight and I didn't get the journal right away- she sent it to me later and it was water damaged- My current husband looked at it and said- This is trash- I said OH NO! that's my book journal- and ever so gently whenever I need a page- after I read a book- I rewet the page and try to ease it away from the page it's stuck too- just enough so I can write in it-
journals are precious
old and damaged just gives it character
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I guess this is something I really should start to think about. My old teenage diaries are stuffed in the back of a dark closet at my parents' place, my one completed composition moleskine is in a box in storage in Sydney (actually I think it might have a couple of pages to go to be completely finished), my one completed small moleskine which is a travel-diary-cum-sketchbook-cum-composition-book-cum-general-notebook has been chucked in the blanket box at the end of my bed, and the huge stashes of morning-page notebooks, which really aren't supposed to be read by anyone ever, are neatly lined up in the bookshelf of my bedside table. Given that I go through about 6 large cahiers a year for morning pages, I should pay more attention to how and where they get stored... Need a plan!
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I've started simply stacking them on the tables-- there's a few on most shelves and tables.
I got a few antique suitcases and boxes to store some in, but don't have enough storage space for all.
Any good ideas out there for memorabilia (moleskine, misc. trinkets, photos, etc.) storage? Suitcases, boxes, trunks, or more creative ideas?
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Completed Moselskines? Ideally they become jumpoffs. I wanna take the good stuff to the next level in the creative process, and the ultimate goal is a finished piece. A sketch becomes a painting. A short story becomes a short film. Notes become a screenplay.
I like the Moles. But for me, I dont spend a whole lot of time working on detail in notebooks. Thats just me, I know there are people with incredible finished pieces in these little books. Thats cool, its just that I tend to use my books as starting lines.
So in closing, I got alot of Moles in play at all times. Im making videos and films, so Im using them all. The cheap cardboard ones. The dedicated Storyboard ones. I got them all over the place. When Im finished with them, they are done. I should probably throw them out, but just like everybody else here, Im sick in the head, and can't.
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Why I eat them of course.
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Autumn Dee [deleted] says:
I don't have any full ones yet, though I have several books in use right now. I keep them on top of a small cabinet near the computer for the moment.
I'm cleaning up our small spare room, it's my workingspace but also used as an easy storage space. Which makes it way too filled up, too messy and I don't even like being in the room. The plan is to make a large bookcase along one of the walls. When it's finished I'll put my notebooks in there too.
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For now mine are going in the bookshelf and as I will undoubtedly run out of space eventually at the rate I am going I will have to remove some other books I have on these shelves since my Moleskine log books make a much better read.
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stick them all on the topshelf of my bookcase
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