I do throw out my journals (Sorry, Des :-) but not until I've "copied" everthing I "need" from the whole of a previous one to the next. I do have a couple little ones from 20+ years ago but when I started to reread the 4-5 I had from when I seriously started working daily after reading Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way they kind of blurred since I have my "life" problems and work on the same sorts of things over and over. Sometimes I get more depressed reading old parts of a journal because the complaints are similar :-) So, now I take the "good" things from each finished journal (not immediately necessarily) and copy them into the next one so I can keep working on them or remember them; quotes, ideas, projects, etc.

Now I keep a huge, blank, artist's book next to me at the computer here and constantly write stuff in it from off the Net; ideas for my school classes, information (for where/when a test is going to be and who I have to call), lots and lots of geneaology info and made-up calendars to track meds, various passwords and URLs/addresses, etc. So it's a bit harder to get to my "easy" chair and books/journal and other projects away from the computer these days.

I was working in Chef Kathleen's Cooking Thin Daybook last year and started my own combination cookbook/journal/shopping "list"/diet & exercise thing but haven't kept up with that project either. I graduate in May so I'm hoping I'll get back to some of these projects, especially my journal, since I haven't got anything else big (like school) planned yet to take the place of the hours on the computer writing papers.