![]() ![]() Maybe you are feeling creative, but scrapbooks are not really your jam. Having the memories to look back on years after graduation is sure to make you smile and is an excellent way to hold onto those elusive details that slip away with time. There is no right or wrong way to scrapbook so have fun with it. Try your hand at creating a collage or sticking to a color theme. Magazines are a great place to find other colorful visuals to make your scrapbook more artful. If you want to get crafty with it, stop by a local craft store and get some fun, themed stickers, or patterned washi tape. Do not forget to add ticket stubs, wrappers, wristbands, or other memorable items. Add details such as the date, where you were, who you were with, and any crazy stories or inside jokes that may have resulted. Invest in a polaroid camera for immediate, scrapbook-able photos with a vintage feel. There are a multitude of ways to go about scrapbooking, but the general idea is to be creative in putting pictures and memories on paper. Keep track of all the great memories by turning an old notebook into a scrapbook. Life in college moves fast, with weeks going by in the blink of an eye. If you find you are enjoying the process and want to be brave, submit your poems to a literary magazine and become a published poet. Trying to find clever rhymes for poems is an entertaining way to pass the time and you might just end up with a personal masterpiece. ![]() ![]() Poems can be written about anything and can be as great or as terrible as you want. You might be thinking that poetry is not in the cards for you, but writing poems can be a fun, low-stress way to express yourself. If you are feeling sentimental, give poetry a try. Use it for any one of these purposes or try them all and see if this method of self-care or improvement works for you. Daily journaling and goal tracking are wonderful ways to practice self-care and check in with yourself and can easily be done with something as simple as a blank notebook. ![]() Try defining and tracking goals in the same way or do a daily journal about your thoughts and feelings on what is going on in your life. Writing it down is a good way to force yourself to pay more attention to it and the physical reminder of the notebook will keep you on track. Use a blank notebook to help keep track of something that you have been meaning to improve, like drinking more water or managing your money better. Life is busy and finding time to take care of yourself or change your lifestyle for the better can be challenging. Choose an ambiguous song or album and have fun with it.Ī habit tracker is another productive way to utilize a blank notebook. You can also do this with friends and discuss themes you see in an album or an artist’s career. Write about what you think the artist is trying to communicate or what the song means to you personally. Analyze the lyrics line by line and come up with your own interpretation. If you have not looked closely at the lyrics before, you might just find you have been singing it wrong or that the lyrics are different from what you thought. If you are an avid listener of music, try doing a deep reading of your favorite song’s lyrics. Reviews are always fun to look back on later and are a great way to start conversations, or passionate debates, with friends. Score the book or movie out of five stars and write about it like a true critic. If you are writing about a movie, take note of the actors in the film, your favorite quotes, the soundtrack, plot points that interested you, or all the above. If you are reviewing a book, write about the author, your favorite characters, literary tropes you see, or whatever else stands out to you. You could fill it with book reviews if you like to read or movie reviews if the cinema is more your speed. One way to fill an old notebook is to write down reviews of things that you love. There are plenty of apps and phone tools that you can use to be creative and keep track of your life, but sometimes it is more beneficial to physically write things down and where better to do so than a blank notebook. Whichever way you find yourself with a blank notebook, this article serves to give you ideas on how to fill it up in a creative or productive way. It is also possible that you, like me, happen to unconsciously hoard blank notebooks for various purposes that you are sure you will use one day, but you just have not gotten around to it. Maybe you have no idea how you got it, but you have one lying around. Perhaps you bought one because you liked the cover design, but you did not have a use for it at the time. Have you ever found yourself with a blank notebook? Maybe you bought one for a class, but you found you never needed it. ![]()
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