Days to Remember: A Journal of Lifetime Events
Do you have a Borders bookstore near you? If you don’t, I don’t know how you’re going to find this, because I have looked everywhere. I searched by ISBN number, I searched for it on the Borders website, I searched for it on the publisher’s website. No luck. The only place it exists, apparently, is in the Bargains section of a Borders bookstore.
The book is called Days to Remember: A Journal of Lifetime Events. Each page has the date at the top and then a bunch of blank lines below. What you’re supposed to do is use up one line each day, writing on that day’s page, starting your line with what year it is. After a number of years, you’ll have a little list of everything that happened on, say, April 3rd. It will look something like this:
April 3
2008 Something cool happened!
2010 There was a weird new political development!
2011 Positive pregnancy test—ZOMG.
2013 Baby milestone!
2014 Started new diet!
2015 Started new diet!
2017 Twins used permanent marker on dining room table!
And so on! You could use it relentlessly every single day, in which case you’d have just over 30 years’ worth of lines, or you could use it only when you feel like it, in which case you could probably make it last until you’re too old to remember anything you wrote down, or where you put the book.
It’s a hardcover with a deep red cover, and it’s about 9 inches by 7 inches. It’s with the journals and blank books in the Bargain section at Borders, and apparently nowhere else in the known universe. It costs $7.99. It makes a fun family journal, and it would make a great wedding or baby gift. —Swistle
Posted: April 3rd, 2008 under Misc, Books, Personally recommended by Swistle.
Comments: 11
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Comment from foodmomiac
Time: April 3, 2008, 7:16 am
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this! I think I’ll just make my own with a notebook. My dad does something similar, but uses a Runner’s Log (even though he can’t run anymore). Every day he writes down the sunrise, sunset and anything momentous that happened. If he ate out, if he saw a movie (which he then rates). Once a week, he writes down the “highlight of the week.” He has a giant pile of these logs now - pretty cool.
Comment from Marie Green
Time: April 3, 2008, 8:29 am
This may or MAY NOT help… but here is some assvice from a former bookseller:
Bargain books have their own ISBN, different from their original ISBN, back when they were NOT bargain books. So, there may have been a barcode/bargain sticker on the FRONT of the book, and this would contain the correct ISBN. (The ISBN printed on the book itself is probably defunct now, b/c the book is probably out of print in regular format but NOT out of print in the bargain format).
Someone at the brickANDmortar Borders might be able to look at another copy of the book, or look the book up in the computer (often this is hard to do with Bargain books, tho), and give you the ISBN if you’ve already peeled the sticker and thrown it, or if there was no sticker to begin with.
If you’ve already looked it up by the sticker ISBN, then you are right- it only exists in the universe at brickANDmortar Borders. =)
Comment from Paige
Time: April 3, 2008, 1:41 pm
What is this handheld blog you speak of? Does it come with it’s own keyboard?
But seriously, that is a really great idea. I’ll be looking for it at my Borders.
Comment from kim
Time: April 3, 2008, 2:34 pm
I have something similar. It is called the 10 year journal and I found it on Amazon. It is by Masayo Koshiyama. More expensive…$40-but very available. In my opinion it is worth every penny. The book is beautiful, it has maybe 4 or 5 lines per day every day for 10 years. It is so fun to look back through the years at exactly what my little family and I were doing on each day.
Comment from Swistle
Time: April 3, 2008, 3:01 pm
Comment from superblondgirl
Time: April 3, 2008, 3:57 pm
That is such a freaking cool idea. I want one, even though I’d only fill it somewhat and lose it and then find it again in a few years… I used to keep old calendars for this reason, just so I could re-read stuff I noted on odd days.
Comment from Rebecca
Time: April 5, 2008, 5:43 pm
That’s a great idea. I think I shall go make one now 
Comment from pseudostoops
Time: April 5, 2008, 7:41 pm
still haven’t dragged myself to borders to get one of these- but it is such a good idea.
Comment from Anne
Time: April 6, 2008, 7:53 am
Love this idea. I was in Borders yesterday and remembered to check the bargain section–sure enough, one copy left, $7.99. Likely entry for yesterday: Went to Borders, purchased this book. Went to Starbucks. Futzed on the internet.
Repeat, ad infinitum.
Comment from Amanda
Time: May 15, 2008, 6:54 am
I HAVE to have this book. I’m going in search of it or it’s brother. Off to find out where the closest Borders is.
Comment from McMama
Time: May 25, 2008, 1:52 pm
I don’t know how many copies there are, but I found it here: http://kimsbooks.com/item0000238/
Looks like it would be pretty simple to buy a nicely bound lined journal and re-create this yourself, though. That’s what I plan to do!
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