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Default Sep 15, 2023 at 08:50 PM
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A friend forwarded this clip from instragram to me. With over 50 journals, FTT, an Abandoned Journal Anonymous group would take up the whole nite.

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Default Sep 16, 2023 at 08:46 AM
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A friend forwarded this clip from instragram to me. With over 50 journals, FTT, an Abandoned Journal Anonymous group would take up the whole nite.
I’ve got all those journals & then some.
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Default Sep 23, 2023 at 03:08 PM
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September update:

1) I’ve folded, sewn, stitched together, & glued gauze to the spine of my homemade sketchbook. I’ve cut out one paperboard cover from the back of a store bought sketchbook. I will cut out the second cover and the paper that will cover those—I’m thinking pretty pages from an old calendar?

2) My siblings have been added as beneficiaries to all my retirement accounts. I sent a message to my bank about getting them set up as beneficiaries of my checking and savings accounts. I want to write a list of all I have left on this goal.
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Default Oct 07, 2023 at 01:11 PM
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October update:

1) I just finished gluing the old calendar paper over the paperboard covers. I never found plastic folders for my homemade press so I’m using wax paper. They have to dry 24 hours. Then I will glue the covers to the sketchbook & glue the corrugated paper over the spine and put it back in the homemade press for another 24 hours. I don’t know if I’ll start making another one right away while the process is fresh in my mind or wait & see if I actually use and enjoy this one I’ve made first?

2) I’ve gotten my siblings added as beneficiaries of my checking and savings accounts, but I need to go into the bank and sign signature cards to complete the process. I asked for a day off from work in November to get my car radiator serviced, so I’ll hopefully get that done after. I still need to make a list of everything I have left on this goal…
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Step by step, you're getting things done.


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Default Nov 03, 2023 at 12:02 PM
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Hello FTT, a working memoir writing posted this piece on using, keeping, and destroying journals.

Thought of you.

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Default Nov 04, 2023 at 09:30 AM
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Hello FTT, a working memoir writing posted this piece on using, keeping, and destroying journals.

Thought of you.
Thank you Revu2. I can relate to her writing obsessively & repetitively. I think that’s part of the reason I accumulated so many notebooks. I used to fill 2 or 3 a year. When I lost my housing in 2016, I threw all the old journals away. It was a relief.
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Default Nov 12, 2023 at 11:59 AM
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November update:

1) I finished one homemade sketchbook and I was so pleased with the results that I started making a second. I have yet to start using it though. A family member was so impressed, they wanted to show their friend. I thought of another idea for using up a notebook: a personal poetry anthology. I got that idea from a book I read.

2) I signed the signature cards at my bank to finalize the process of adding my siblings as beneficiaries. One of my siblings said they were “flattered” and I thought to myself: well, it’s not like I have other choices… I noticed my siblings are now “liking” more of my Facebook posts too. I thought that was interesting. I also got a copy of my birth certificate to the tune of 64 bucks through the state.
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Default Nov 12, 2023 at 08:05 PM
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My wife and I reached out to an attorney to do the estate plan. We're stuck on naming an Executor. Our daughter would have no capacity to do it, and most of my relatives are older than me or too distant.
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Default Dec 31, 2023 at 11:25 AM
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This year my goals are:

1) use up as many of my notebooks, sketchbooks, & tablets as I can (currently numbering 53).

2) do my past years’ taxes. I’m not sure how many years I missed or if I’m still able to get the stimulus, which is why I’m doing it.

3) organize my death. I’m thinking about a binder that I’ll review yearly, but I also know there are kits you can buy (my manager is using nokbox, for instance).
December wrap up:
1) I’m now down to 48 notebooks, sketchbooks, tablets, & journals. 1 homemade scratch paper 3”x5” book I recycled. 6 9”x12” sketchbooks I consolidated into 2 6”x9” 236 page, bound sketchbooks I love. I used up one spiral notebook as an insomnia journal. Then I was regifted a guided wellness journal at Xmas. So, the grand total is: 5 down from the beginning of the year.
2) Taxes were finished in April, yippee!
3) Death binder is a work in progress, needing about 10 things I have written down in my dot journal I’m too lazy to rewrite here.

In conclusion, this was a helpful thread for me I plan to do again.
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Default Jan 14, 2024 at 02:07 PM
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Hi FTT, I have discovered a similar goal for myself for this year: Keep random sheets and papers in a binder marked with the year. It's a calendar, reminder, scrapbook, & journal all rolled into one. I'll just put them in as they arrive.

This is a slight shift from the "piling" style where flat surfaces catch everything, to more of a "filing" style. Keeping my sights low and close for now to test how this works.

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Default Jan 14, 2024 at 02:50 PM
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Hi FTT, I have discovered a similar goal for myself for this year: Keep random sheets and papers in a binder marked with the year. It's a calendar, reminder, scrapbook, & journal all rolled into one. I'll just put them in as they arrive.

This is a slight shift from the "piling" style where flat surfaces catch everything, to more of a "filing" style. Keeping my sights low and close for now to test how this works.
Good luck. It sounds like a great system. Let us know how it goes.
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Default Jan 14, 2024 at 07:11 PM
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Hi FTT, I have discovered a similar goal for myself for this year: Keep random sheets and papers in a binder marked with the year. It's a calendar, reminder, scrapbook, & journal all rolled into one. I'll just put them in as they arrive.

This is a slight shift from the "piling" style where flat surfaces catch everything, to more of a "filing" style. Keeping my sights low and close for now to test how this works.
I'm a long-time user of the "piling" system. (I like that name -- very clever). Fortunately, I have very little paper coming in to the house. I've moved to e-statements for nearly everything except receipts.
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Default Jan 16, 2024 at 01:00 PM
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Hi SPG, I can't claim this distinction as my one. For a while I immersed myself in decluttering (before my career demanded more of my available time and then some). Some of the expert gurus used that idea and it fit well to how I operate.

My partner has similar piling tendencies, so we struggle with what's called the earth plane [flat surfaces] in Feng Shui. If I really wanted to apply FS in full I could probably do it, but the process would drive me nuts. I'd have to check myself into the psych ward.

Here's the thing: I grew up with this pattern, too! Without planning or any thinking, I learned to clear a space and do what I needed in the clearing. When done, the cleared space would fill-in again.

Hm. I have a ritual of a series of enriched self-sayings I'd like to run now. The format is to state a declarative sentence. Then add "part of myself ..." after the nouns, and "I am having myself ..." before the verbs. It was taught to my dream study group by Henry Reed, a dream explorer. The hardest part is what sentence to start with.

Once I start, I won't let myself stop. There's no room anyway for all these echoes and copies and reminders. I let them go to feel my sacred spaces grow. [riff off the poem What to Save by MJ Werthman White]

I am having my intentional part of myself start clearing the earth plane parts of myself. I am stopping myself from stopping this processing of my self. I have in myself no room anyway for the echoes, reminders, and copies from a self I no longer need to carry. I am having myself let these parts of myself go so that I can enjoy my inner self sensing the beautiful and sacred spaces within me and without.

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Default Jan 17, 2024 at 05:26 PM
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Hi, just dashed through TTW's "When Women were Birds." It opens with her mother giving her permission to read all her journals. As a Mormon wife she had 2 duties, having children and keeping a journal to hand down to her daughters. Who would keep journals.

Her mom died on the full moon. On the next full moon, TTW, finding herself alone, decided to open up the journals. They took up a whole bookcase.

The first was blank, then the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, ... shelf after shelf ... they all were blank.

And I think somewhere in the after life her mom had a big after laugh.

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