Found my first bullet journal from 2017 in a moving box

It was a cheap grid notebook from the drugstore, and the whole thing was just a messy daily log with a few half-finished trackers. I remember that week in October because I wrote 'good day' for three days straight, which was rare back then. The only decoration was a coffee stain on the Tuesday page. It's funny how simple it was compared to my current setup with its fancy pens and spreads. Does anyone else feel a bit silly looking at their old, basic journals?

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ryanh562mo ago

Wait, you kept a notebook with a coffee stain for seven years? I would have thrown that out the second it happened, my brain could not handle that.

rubyschmidt2mo ago

Does the coffee stain count as the first decorative washi tape?

adam_thompson532mo ago

Honestly, I've tried to lean into coffee stains before and it never works. They just look like a mess, not a design. What I do now is keep a roll of plain brown kraft tape in my desk drawer. If I spill on a notebook cover, I'll tear a piece of that tape and patch right over it. It covers the stain completely and looks like it was meant to be there, like a rustic patch. Way better than a weird, splotchy stain trying to pass as art.