Old Diaries, Journals

This topic is a tough one.  I love history and if everyone in the past had decluttered their diaries, we would have lost valuable insight into life in those times.  One option is to at least organize your past journals and diaries into a central location, a single shelf or box.  You could type the info into a computer to save, but the historian in me recoils at that.  Some would say to scan the pages so the handwriting can be seen.

I don't have an answer except I know I have discarded some of my past because what I wrote was dumb and I didn't want others to read it.  Others are being kept, at least for now.