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...

Looking forward to you finding it - make sure you get the Buds in!

Kept mine - they're in the loft. I am going to flag pages for when DD is older. Chapters will be entitled ...

"you don't understand"

"but I luuuuuv him"

"she's picking on me"

"how can I live without him?"

"I hate you"

"God mum, everyone else is allowed to go"

"no one else's mum minds"

"they're not my cigarettes I'm looking after them for a friend"

"shall I sleep with him"

Dear God, it will be then I wil be a permanent sobbing fixture on Mumsnet!

Shredded mine - some stuff should just never be seen!

I think I've got a diary I wrote when I first met DH

I must dig it out and cRINGE

ooh, might publish mine - if it's good enough for Alistair Campbell....

"The life and loves of a she-devil" - or has that already been done????

Do I get royalities?

I've kept all my pre-teen diaries, but the really embarrasing ones from my late teens have already been destroyed. One of my first ones has drawings of my school uniform, my girl guide uniform and then drawings of what I wore at the weekend (very strange fashion I must say) but then I wanted to be a fashion designer in those days. My dc have already read it, one for each summer at grans house!

I burned mine a couple of years ago - kept through late teens and then university. They were just excruciating to read - first broken heart, much angst-ridden wailing about how I was going to die because he didn't love me and - the main reason for their destruction - graphic descriptions of my first fumblings (and later, when it was more accomplished and less fumbly) blow-by-blow (ooh, missus) accounts of who put what where.

I suddenly remembered reading my Mum's diaries when I was about 13 (I was wicked) and realised I didn't ever want my children to read mine! Though they are boys and possibly not as devious, underhand or interested as I was.

It was quite cathartic actually.

I've been keeping a diary since I was 11 and still have them all. Can't bring myself to read most of them though.

Yesterday was the 10-year anniversary of DP and I meeting, so I thought I'd look at my diary of the time, with a view to possibly sitting down with dp and having a good old laugh about it. Was to find how cringeworthy, wanky (and verging on the pornographic at times) it was - NO WAY was I showing it to DP. And I was 26!