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Vent: I used to think my bullet journal had to be perfect or it was useless
Three years ago, I started my first journal and got so mad when I messed up a weekly spread. Last month, I saw my friend's journal in a coffee shop, full of crossed-out bits and notes in the margins, and she said it was the only reason she finished her project. So last week, I spilled tea on my March page and just wrote 'oops' next to the stain and kept going. It feels way better to just use the thing. How do you handle mistakes in your journal without starting over?
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the_piper8d ago
What's the biggest mistake you've turned into something useful instead of just covering it up? I'm trying to get better at leaving the messy bits as a record of what actually happened.
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max3881mo ago
My first bullet journal from 2018 is a mess of white-out and torn pages from trying to fix every little error. I finally got over it when I started using a cheap notebook from the drugstore instead of a fancy one, so I didn't feel bad about wasting money. Now if I mess up a date or spill something, I just turn the mistake into a doodle or a big 'X' and move on. The whole point is to get stuff out of your head, not make art for Instagram.
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