If you wrote a diary as a teen have you kept it or did you shred it?

[TheBlonde]

I'm mulling over what to do with mine...

Kept mine. Makes quite amusing reading !

Mine are in the loft and I occasionally have a nose at them, if I see them. Hilarious reading! DH couldn't give a stuff about them tbh, he just kinda raises his eyes when he sees me reading them! I wouldn't get rid of them, just put them somewhere really safe.

Kept mine but don't read them in case I'm tempted to get rid! My mum burnt all hers when she went to college and always regretted it.

Oh god shred. Can't imagine why I'd want to read that nonsense now.

read my teenage diary for the first time last month when we moved house. Wow -it really brought back that amazing time of excitement, all those feelings, all those boys I fancied, all those worries, new experiences,

so glad I hadn't binned it -life was really colourful then

the diary is now hidden deep in a cupboard again and I'll read it again when I'm 60.

i destroyed mine in 1993, but now i really wish i'd kept them

Kept them but I cringe at the thought of re-reading them.

Oh god....mine have really crap semi-pornographic drawings in them. I think I'll try and cut them out without 'spoiling' the rest. TBH I haven't looked at the diaries for years, they are just so, so cringe-worthy...

I kept all mine, but they're sooo crap and cingey that I fully intend to burn them in cathartic manner. I think that would be good, closure so to speak. mmm actually though I've always thought that some stuff would be cool for grandkids to read in future... getting ahead of myself there I think!

They are in the loft, but I squirm at the thought of having to read them again. Still my biographer may find them useful.

I like your ambition Rosa, see I think grandkids you think bigger

your biographer rosa?

ive got mine. They see the progression from innocent little 14 year old to slutyy 16 year old! Towards the end they are positively pornographic!!!

I'm planning to be famous when I grow up.

I kept a diary for years when I was living at home, and I have recently rescued them from my parents house. They make interesting reading now!

PC, I am still waiting for your green tin evening!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who are you, MMM?!

kept them - but no idea where they are now...

I am not at all surprised at how often the word "cringe" has appeared in this thread already! I kept mine, and yes I cringe too.

diaries are for when you write them not after I think

PC, you know me too well! I work with you! (ps I have changed name!)

i wrote in a diary from the age of 13 to about 21... still write on and off... it is horrendous reading... mainly due to the fact that it's full of film/tv star love... and me recounting films and telly that i've watched... in intricate detail... all those bits are just horrendous and boring...

i love finding the odd snippet where i actually do write about life and what's been goingon...they're all on the bookshelf in our bedroom... i should just pack them into a box and pop them up in the loft as they are taking up uneccessary space!!!

much as they are full of complete gibberish... i'll keep them...

very interesting where i note down the first time i saw dh and tracks my admiration and lurve for him... right upto where we got married and having dd....

Mine are seriously cringeworthy - I also had a 'chart' in the back where I 'rated' all boyfriends across 3 dimensions - one was looks, one was kissing, and I can't remember what the third was! (Not sex, as I was still sweet and innocent then!)

i burned mine when i lived in a home with a fireplace.

it felt good.

Thought it was you, but you threw me with the name change, so thought I had better make sure!
Lost green tin again, but will let you know when I find it!