What To Do With Your Journals When You Die.

[@photocomstudios]

I feel the world would be much better if we had more regular folks publishing/sharing journals, or life histories than only Athletes, Politicians, Wealthy People, Hollywood Actors, Business People, (your get my drift). Great topic, thanks for your videos.

[@pixelzebra8440]

Yeah honestly regular people have deep thoughts I want to hear

[@madhuhritakar3038]

I personally wish there was a library sort of thing for journals. Like you can give your old journals after you die or even when you are alive there. Then other people who would like to read about somebody's life will grab one journal, purchase it maybe or just take it and read it. In this way, strangers have the maximum chance to read our journals so they might not judge us or get hurt. And it also ensures that people who are interested in reading them will get an opportunity. I personally would love to read about other people's life.

[@InkDiaries]

There is! It’s called The American Diary Project

[@NotThisAnonymous]

@@InkDiariesWait really? That’s so cool

[@realityisabellatusmere9722]

Yea just like mass publish the journals (if the person is ok with it if they're alive or if they write somewhere in the journal or have something in writing that says they want them to be published or in their will or something) and put it in libraries maybe have some pages have the actual handwriting but most typed up so it's easier to read especially if the person's handwriting is kinda hard to read or in cursive so people can understand it better than struggling to read it

[@epic7145]

Yes!

[@llyraslife]

When I’m done with mine ima put it on the little library at the end of my street!

[@ACcraftco]

I’m almost done with my third journal. My friend was journaling and she wasn’t happy with the journal she was using, so I gave her one of my journals. She has not regretted her decision to switch journals.

[@MAdilK]

That is actually so nice of you!! ❤

[@ACcraftco]

❤️🫧

[@LaurenxOtt]

I’m chronically ill, and don’t have a good prediction of how long I’ll live, so I’ve definitely thought about this. I’m on my second journal and there’s definitely things I’d rather no one see, so I’m considering scanning my favorite pages that I’ve done and give those to people and have the rest probably burned. My problem is that I don’t want to put it off just in case.

[@imperfect_pages5331]

I can understand this feeling- I’m chronically ill too and have been journaling since 2016 (when my health issues started) and there are some journals that I wouldn’t want anyone to see bc they’re too dark. I started tearing out the good pages in those dark journals and putting them in a folder to keep, the rest I think I’m going to burn.

[@beckydorian7043]

I am chronically Ill too not sure what will do with my journal most don't have personal things in them

[@AvecPoesie]

Another chronically-ill Journal writer, here...I am actually currently Hospitalized and have been writing ✍ within my Journal throughout this (and every Hospital stay). I am writing ✍ in my 63rd Journal volume soon. I wish I could publish them in way Anne Frank, Sylvia Plath, and Anais Nina had their personal writings published. Those that know me in this Life truly know so little about me. I have kept to myself.. I had to or otherwise face their abuse and judgment. They will at long last be made privy to the true, authentic me when I Die and all of my Journals are available to be read.

[@s.h.o.r.t.n.s.w.e.e.t]

😱!!! I hope you live a little longer and get to enjoy the rest of your life! Recently in September my 85 year old grandfather died of melanoma and I have not been really happy lately! But, If you pass soon, I want to let you know your family will miss you!

[@HM-cp7gy]

i’m definitely having mine burned 😢

[@elizabethk2009]

This is definitely something to think about. What ive done with some very sensitive entrie is to cover them with some of my art work or magazine pages, book pages, whatever comes to mind at the moment. Covering it changes the vibe of it. You move on from it.

[@The_tomboy1234]

My current journal is 100 pages and I only have 42 pages left and I've been daily journaling since Thurday August 10th of this year and this is my 5th journal (i think)✍️🏼📖🙂

[@that_girl_estou]

Carrie ! Its my 3rd year with journaling! Since october23rd i watched “reading my old diary” and it made me wanna start journaling. I needed someone to talk to and since i started my life became better ! Anyway i just wanted to say thank you carrie i love you sm❤ Btw im on my 7th journal!

[@that_girl_estou]

October23rd 2021*

[@emmathelovewitch]

my mom passed away very suddenly when i was young and we kept her journals. they stay in a box with other things like pictures, keepsakes, stuff like that. my dad never really read them. he said when im older i can read them if i want. she wrote a lot of sad stuff and just journaled when she was in a *very* bad spot so i don’t know if i want to read that. also it’s a private thing so i don’t know if i should read them. i do have things like cards that my mom wrote on and pictures. they’re very special to me. i journal a lot! like a lot, and even though im still a teenager i have 16 journals so far. i think by the time i die (hopefully) i’ll have like a library or journals haha. i have no idea what im going to do. my favorite idea is to pass them down to my children, but then i wonder, like what will they do when they die? i just want to keep them in a safe spot this is a lot sorry 😭😭

[@s.h.o.r.t.n.s.w.e.e.t]

I hope you are doing well now ❤. R.I.P!!!

[@gamingwithnani4299]

Hi Carrie I finished my first journal u always inspire me!

[@Ayatarif.....]

That's great ❤❤

[@KahliaRoberts2639]

I think of might giving my journals to my kids when they are teenagers or to my grandkids when they are teenagers!

[@Chloe-btsarmy]

I wanna have a whole room with lots of book shelfs of my diary’s so when I die people can look back and see what I did

[@aqueelacim]

Same

[@BeautyBibleBudget]

Yesss this ❤

[@CamiLynn-e3j]

Hiii Carrie!! I love journaling! I am on my sixth journal in fact I finished my fifth one yesterday! You are the reason I started journaling you are such and inspiration for me and I want to continue journaling for as long as I can! ❤

[@harpergarrett1487]

hi carrie i just wanted to let you know that i am so thankful for you and your videos! i am almost done with my 4th journal! you are such an inspiration to everyone!❤

[@that_one_aquariuss]

Omg I’m almost done with my 4th!!!!!

[@harpergarrett1487]

@@that_one_aquariuss omg! that's so cool that we are both on our 4ths! my 4th is my favorite so far in my collection

[@that_one_aquariuss]

@@harpergarrett1487 omg me too! It’s just cuter than all the other ones lol

[@harpergarrett1487]

@@that_one_aquariuss mines more happy than my other ones lol and yeah i also think it's cuter than my other ones!

[@that_one_aquariuss]

@@harpergarrett1487 haha 😂

[@Thaat_veganteacher]

I just recently finished my 4th journal!! And I started alllllll because of Carrie!

[@je_suis_calme_13]

Me too!!

[@Stephanie-hl7lo]

Hi Carrie! I LOVE your videos! If/ when anything happens to me, some of them will go to my nieces and nephews, and then the rest I want to be donated to a public or free library

[@alexafmcdowell8778]

Hi Carrie! 👋:) Um... honestly in the future, I'm thinking of publishing my journals to the world. And yes I know it can be risky and if I do decide to, I'll make sure to ask the people in my life if they're comfortable with it. And if they're not, I completely understand and will respect their wishes.

[@marisarodriguez7890]

So I’ve actually thought about this and what I would do if my journals got damaged by a disaster. I’m currently on journal 35 so I have a lot of them. What I’m doing is I am currently scanning my journals and transcribing them. After that I plan on burning them. If I do pass on my journals I would pass on the transcript. I can also edit the part I don’t want to share. Keeping them preserved, but keeping my privacy. Also if something happens to them while I am alive I can still access them.

[@imperfect_pages5331]

How do you scan them/where do you save them to?

[@marisarodriguez7890]

@@imperfect_pages5331 I use genius scan, it’s free and does the job. Then back them up to my Google drive but plan later in the future to back them up to a usb drive for safe keeping.

[@theprincessello7952]

Carrie, I really just have to thank you for being such an inspiration to me and my fellow subscribers. Just today I finished my first journal, which in itself was a huge accomplishment, but it wouldn't have happened without the amount of inspiration you gave me to start a journal in the first place from watching your videos. I used to write maybe one or two pages and then just get bored, but ever since I started watching your videos, I have been doing daily writing which has helped me channel my anxiety and just overall overwhelming emotions as a teenager, really just trying to figure everything out. A lot of things have happened over the past year that have REALLY taken a tole on my mental health, but journaling really helped me realize that my mental health, (or your mental health in general) always goes first. Same goes for physical health. Thank you Carrie ♥📓🖋♥

[@theprincessello7952]

@@SunshinePeaceFreedom thank you! hope you are doing well too 💛

[@Pjoshifter]

I want to either publish my journals or give them to my family. I think getting your loved ones journal is a really sweet and sentimental gift. The only thing is I’m very blunt in my journals and I’ve written some very nit nice things and I don’t want to upset the ones I love

[@anatasevska7151]

Today I am finishing my 6th journal only because of you thank you. From your video I started journaling every single day for 229 days, and I am 13 years. Thank you Carrie. I was always into journaling but I thaught that I must write someting good, emportant and funny but that isnt true and from your videos I learned that and so much more. Thank you. And by the way English isnt my first language so sorry for my bad english writing. Love you from 🇲🇰. ❤❤❤😊☺️😊

[@klauslispector]

My diaries will go to my future daughter/s too. Perhaps even son/s if we get a very good connection. When I was 18, my mother gave me her journal from her 18th year in life. It was very emotional for both of us as I felt I got to know her so much better through it. As I was reading it, it was like I was figuring out life together with her ❤

[@je_suis_calme_13]

Hey, Carrie! I recommend Threshold journals. They're SO cute, and they don't bleed when you use color! You'd LOVE them.

[@aniamason4165]

Hi carrie! I love your videos. It’s a little early but I’m planning on turning my journals into a autobiography one day❤😊

[@je_suis_calme_13]

I definitely want to pass them on to my children.

[@Jsarmy87124]

If they trow them away ? Ask them I they are interested before

[@tanagiberson4770]

I'm more than half way through my 80th journal. i have been journaling for 15 years

[@siesiehaycraft4699]

I'm really hoping my diaries can be passed down to like my children and then my grandchildren for however many generations

[@maddycrafts7740]

Omg omg I’m first!!!! Yay queen is back! 🎉❤❤

[@Melly_Bee_]

What an uncommon question! There are many facets to consider. My dad writes everything! I would find comfort and heartbreak in reading it. Also, I may be upset in some of my interpretation. Publishing is a cool idea. But timing would be hard. Love the idea of a disclaimer. Maybe publish categories. "Read when you need comfort" "when you need a laugh"....etc. frame certain pages for certain people, then burn the rest. Or give them to a trusted loved one. Love you, Carrie! The most valuable thing anyone has is their soul. John 3:16

[@lynnberry2890]

My Daddy was one to keep notes, and all his pocket diaries for decades. When my Daddy passed away, I sat reading through them. They are full of lots of little snippets of his life. It was wonderful. Even seeing "took Lynn for her first day at school"❤ Being a family historian and "keeper of archives". They are so helpful to add to his life story. ❤❤

[@Sabrina79]

Hi Carrie! New sub here, and I feel so at home here. I've been keeping journals since 2001 and have accumulated over 70 journals. I've thought about what will happen to my journals when i die, and I have decided that NO ONE in my family will get them because some family members make fun of me for keeping a journal. The only people I would trust without a doubt with my journals are my two closest/best friends, so they're gonna get them when I go...

[@leila-n3o]

Holy crap 70 I'm still on my 2nd but when I go only want my best amazing friend to have my journals

[@je_suis_calme_13]

I'll take your journals, Carrie!

[@crystalboorer8198]

I love how you made a video. When I started my journey my thoughts were to pass them down to my kids but finding out I can't have them. Then on top of then having a illness I am not sure as you said could make up happy to read them or happy to read them just don't. I will either leave them behind for them if they want to because it was your work you up into writing in them after all. I think anyone who loves you won't judge you I think they will understand we all have good and bad days.

[@juliamatula]

💕💕HER VOCABULARY💕💕

[@siriuslyblack27]

Lol this video is actually helpful . I have thought about this many times . So thanks Carrie. Love u

[@emmmmas]

damn, that's a title 😭

[@akayziarutling]

Giving them to my loved ones.

[@Abi_JD]

Yay I’m early :D I just wanted to say I’ve been watching you for years now, and Im in my 8th journal and I just wanted to say thank you for everything you have done for us

[@saradarwish8418]

I no longer keep a lot of Journals , I keep one for every year , so they only have good memories or life changing lessons that if my kids don't want in the future , I would love to give them to my students since as a teacher I do have strong connections with the people I teach , or it could be fun to leave them out on my grave to anyone who visits the graveyard , they can read the journals of a random dead person , that would be cool I think , I watched five feet apart and since that movie I've always wanted to make a journal/book of letters and memories for people I care about after I pass away .

[@fuzzypig]

hi carrie!! ❤❤

[@AmelieCaramelDonuts]

You have inspired me Carrie so Thankyou

[@florentinecampbell5535]

I'm finishing my 8th journal today! 😁

[@diyasworld2847]

1.30 loved this part of the video.......I wish I GOT ALL YOUR JOURNALS .....CARRIE .....I WOULD LOVE TO READ THEM 😙😙AND KNOW YOUR DEEP DARK SECRETS ....HAHA 🤣😂😂

[@ChantelleArts]

this is such a good video, i never would have thought of it ❤❤❤

[@Mrs.WarmWaffle]

I've heard that the State archives would like to have journals here in Norway. At least it was a wish from them some years ago. I think I need to ask them if they still want journals. Then I want them to have mine when I'm no longer here on earth.

[@ValForthuber]

As an aspiring writer who one day wants the books, I write to become published, I always think about what would happen to my writing notes and journals when I die. One idea I came up with was to have a burning ceremony where people at my funeral burn my journals as a final "sendoff", the second idea I came up with was for people to tear them up and make paper flower bouquets for everyone to have.

[@kam_is_too_cute]

YAY! Carrie! ❤❤❤

[@edenrizzo7621]

I started journaling when I was 13 because I wanted my kids grandkids and family members can really know me long after I’m gone

[@TheOGFrogQueen]

I like the thought of giving my diaries to loved ones. I’m on the last page of my 6th diary(I’m writing it right now) You are the reason I’ve gone this far. Tysm for existing Carrie.❤❤❤❤❤

[@marisarodriguez7890]

If I would to publish my journal I would give them fake names and changed the name of my location and publish with a pseudonym.

[@X.Flower.X]

Hi carrie❤ tbanks for inspiring me to journal!

[@amylozano6780]

I feel the same way too, thank you for sharing this video

[@luceat7171]

Hi, Carrie, okay, I've been watching you for a long time, but I decided to write a comment for the first time. I'm a pretty depressed person, besides, I live in Russia and that explains everything. When I was in the 2nd year, I almost did something starting with "s" and ending with "cide". Then I reached the point of no return, when I no longer cared what of my innermost thoughts and feelings would be read. I wrote a goodbye note right in my diary. 5 years have passed since then, I have never reread that note because I was wildly afraid to find something there that would destroy me again. So I think I won't care about my diaries after I die.

[@tabzb6451]

I write about my grandma's in my journals. I write how I grew up and my aunties.

[@noelle5268]

HEYY!! I have a question : if you were to publish your journal to the world would only one person get it because there’s only one copy of your journal, how would that work?

[@fuzzypig]

i think she means it could be purchased like a book, so it would be mass produced

[@InkDiaries]

Check out the American Diary Project. They have diaries dating back to the 1800’s. You can read their stories online for free. It’s really neat!

[@je_suis_calme_13]

I'm on my fifth journal.

[@weirdamywillywonky6976]

i think i am going to put all of my journals in a box, hide it somewhere and make a treasure hunt out of it for whoever wants it!❤️💖❤️🤭

[@yanieyanie990]

I love your videos ❤it helps me how to improve my journaling. I am 11 year old and I become interested on journaling ❤. Than you.

[@laikacons]

I plan on getting my poetry journals published so the royalties will go to my descendants

[@harpergarrett1487]

HAPPY JOURNALING ANNIVERSARY!!❤ you are my favorite youtuber and you inspire me so much to journal!

[@EmilyBondin]

I'm on my nineth journal and i've decided that if i was to die young my guy bestfriend would get them all. However, if i was older i would definitely past them down to my kids so that they can see my life experiences.

[@cassandrascott2613]

1. If I am dead I don’t care if they read them or misinterpreted 2. I regret burning journals from my teenage years because I didn’t want my kids to think I was a nut bar, but then when they were struggling through teenage years I think they would have benefited to know that everyone struggles 3. They is a difference between having a burn book and a journal 4. Go unedited, they need to see the good, the bad, and the ugly 5. Never heard of anyone wanting to be buried with their journals 6. Use initials or pet names for people if you don’t want to use their actual name

[@miss1985state]

Thinking of donating my journals to the university library, archives and special collections, where I graduated. There are many libraries and archives that would love to have diaries and journals. I am concerned, however, about the personal stuff and the people mentioned in my writing who have no say in my decision. Of that, I am torn. But, you may negotiate the time period that must lapse before they are read, 25 years after death, 40, 50. Still thinking this through.

[@LifetimeDiarist-uj3dp]

My will says that the box containing all of my journals can be opened 99 years after I die.

[@evagarciaescudero809]

I also thought about it. I've got a HUGE amount of journals and some of them are from a very different version of myself, like there's a before and an after I started seeing a therapist and those are very dark journals... 😹😹 however, I have been thinking... What if nobody cares about me anymore when I pass away? What if there's nobody to "take care of me" in that way? Somebody's life is a heavy burden... And, boy, those journals are soooo heavy too! But what if nobody wants to know you? That would be even sadder. The embarrassing parts... Well, I wouldn't care since I'm no more. They can think about me anything they want, but the real truth is in those pages because I'm them I cannot be anyone but me. Such an interesting point you did! Thank you 💙💙

[@sofiarodriguez-br5go]

hello Carrie walker this is your big fan i started watching your You tube videos

[@user-ul3zg4ek8z]

You could give them to your family boyfriend best friends kids xx

[@Josephine_Creates]

I personally have decided to publish my journals when I pass. As I write as a hobby anyway, I hope by the end of my life i will have other works also published, so my Journals can be just an add on to all I had already written.❤

[@marga8732]

Yay!

[@autumnliketheseason6217]

my thoughts all the time and i appreciate it. Also random off topic question, do you like taylor swift?

[@CreativeJewelsAdventures]

This is an interesting topic I think I wanted to be buried with my journals but as you said I don’t know how many I would have in the future. 😂

[@lzgtm]

HAPPY 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CARRIE!! I WAS WATCHING YOUR OLD ANNIVERSARY VIDEO THEN I NOTICED 💞💞

[@luvmoon8]

i would give it to my best friend even if we lose connection later on in life, id give it to her she already knows all my embarrassing shit 😭

[@adzdrawss]

i’m not exactly sure what i’ll do with my journals. i have some super private stuff in it. not just for me but also for others. i’ve shared stuff that’s really heavy on my heart. i’m not as concerned for my issues. but some of my friends have also gone through serious stuff and i’ve journaled about it because it was hard to hear. i used to have the idea of publishing it. But honestly, they’ve turned into more vent journals than anything. And I definitely don’t need just anyone to see that. I don’t know if I’m going to have kids. But I do have a niece and honestly if I don’t have kids, I will probably pass those on to her. i’m not going to burn them and i do want people to know about my life so i don’t think ill bury them. i just think it’s going to be very close family. it’ll be an issue for later in life though. i have a lot of growing from those really tough times and so do the people i wrote about. but yeah those are just my thoughts

[@Funnylookingpotato]

i know i want my journals to stay in my family if possible. if i die before my parents or my siblings, which i hope i dont, but i know realistically its a possibility, only then they can read my journals. mainly because with the stuff ive written about them, they wont be able to do anything to me if I'm d*ad so there. 😛 😂 but also, I'd want any future relatives that will never meet me to know me as well. know what life was like centuries before they were born. what it was like going through the pandemic, even if it's from one person's point of view. i think it's interesting reading journals written by people from before any of us were around. sorry, now I'm rambling 😅

[@22sierrafaye22]

I personally think it would be fun to bury my diaries and then write a little treasure map to where their buried and leave the treasure map somewhere in the house and whoever finds the diaries can do what they want with it.

[@je_suis_calme_13]

You could also SELL your journals!

[@alisons338]

Don't we just love journals? Amazing video Carrie!!!

[@Summerstone_Stables]

I want mine locked up around me (like around my coffin) with all of my other valuables but in a way they can’t be taken if that makes sense

[@Stephanie-hl7lo]

Side Note: I am now 34, I have been writing since I was 8 so I have A LOT lol

[@pennypipper2215]

How many journals 😂you have readen

[@emmajensen2135]

i kind of like the idea, that i could give my future daughter my journals, when she's the same age is was when I wrote it. (hopefully I will still be alive at that point, but maybe I will do it anyways)

[@carolribas7792]

once i almost die, so i burn all my journals cause i was so scary on other people see everything secret bout me. but..... i ended living lol now im very sad that i lost all my memories

[@N00ujin]

I always think about like "If people in the 3000 had my journals they would know more about how we lived" but now people really save what happens so IDKK

[@ananditabhuyan7243]

I have 3 complete journals, and about to start my 4th one, and everytime i have thought about what to do with them its always been burning it down. Like i cant imagine anyone going through it, ofc it differs from person to person but for me its just burning them all

[@siennanaga2648]

Honestly, right now i am on my 3rd journal... i have no idea what i wanna do with them when i die😮. i wanna be an actres when i grow up so maybe it might be fun for my fans ( if i ever get any) to publish my diaries.... i honestly have no idea

[@Vanillacream_art]

Or just bury them in a secret treasure chest and write clues for your family. That’s what i want to do 🙂

[@davidparnell1903]

Nice

[@crypt58]

I think I'd want to pass down my journals, because they'd be a major remnant of me. Though it'll be tough to decide who to pass it down to, since I don't have any plans to have children or even marry, and I don't think my brother does either. So it would probably be passed on to my cousins' kids (or their kids). I've been working at Walmart for almost 22 years, so one could read a lot of interesting Walmart stories in my journals, lol. I'm getting so close to the end of my second journal now. XD

[@elinmor89]

I don't really care what happens to my journals after I die. They can do whatever they want with them. Of course, I hope in my heart that they will keep one or two of them at least 🤭 But it is entirely up to those who inherit me, which will probably be my sister's children. Since I don't have my own.

[@manreetslayness]

I think you should tell someone to read all of it

[@idachri9813]

Love your vids Bit what the Heck ? (I havent looked IT yet)

[@klauslispector]

My biggest regret in life (yes, really) is throwing away my diaries from age 7-14.

[@pohyokelo]

My journal will be thrown away. I have no children. I am alone. So no one would care to see what I have written.

[@t.shaiikh333]

I finished my journal and want to start a new, should i throw thr old one? I cant keep it at home

[@aricbalser2647]

i gor q for u buckte with pin marks and other cups where did u find at

[@friendshapesbyvictoria753]

I was thinking, what if editing with famly? Any confusion can be solved?

[@flybalbu]

I might pass them on to family or a future important person in my life, even if they see my weird thoughts and depressed feelings, i'll be dead so who cares Or maybe if i become famous enough i could sell a couple of them on ebay 😂

[@Jsarmy87124]

Everything in the garbage for me

[@EllaONeill-p1n]

I think i may become famous maybe? my journal will be like anne franks....

[@Vivian-ju6hp]

Me with bad handwriting

[@tianmishu]

the titled was a jumpscare second thing in the morning