Stumbled on a wild stat about monthly spreads in my own journal

I was flipping back through my bullet journal from last year and realized I had 43 different monthly spreads that I abandoned halfway through. That's like 3.5 years of wasted planning if you add up all the pages. Has anyone else counted their dead monthly setups and gotten a shock?

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taylor6681mo ago

Oh man, I literally did the exact same thing last week while cleaning out my old journals! I counted 37 abandoned spreads and felt so guilty about all those wasted pages and wasted effort. But honestly it just showed me how much my system changes with my mood and energy levels.

kimreed1mo ago

37 abandoned spreads isn't wasteful, @taylor668, it just means you actually used your journal for real life not a Pinterest board lol.

olivia_bailey14d ago

Started doing this thing where I tape loose pages back in so I don't feel like I wasted them. I shove scribbles and half-finished spreads into those plastic wallet sleeves too, it's like this messy archive of what I was actually dealing with that month. Makes me feel better seeing them all together instead of as evidence I gave up on something.