>>7273
If you stick it out with this bird you won't need to, because her ancestors will have your future generations covered.

I kept a diary while I was at university. It details every wank I ever had, because I thought I might one day be curious about how much wanking I did before I became the world-leading sex god I would surely become once I finally lost my virginity. Anyway, I doubt anyone will want to read it.

>>7275
Show us.

I'm not sure.

I have notebooks dating back to around age 21, which were a combination of very personal diary entries, appointments, reading lists, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, all sorts of minutiae.

These could feasibly be turned into memoirs, but there is also something vain about the process. Memoirs often seem to me to be so transparent, I'm sometimes a bit stunned of the lack of self-awareness of the authors.

>>7276
It's not just wanking. It's mostly things I did during the day. But often, that was wanking.

I started keeping a diary since the start of last year.
Just a way for me to look back at what I did on any given day. I've also recorded my thoughts and emotions on certain matters that popped up along the way, I intend to keep this going until I die. I have a fear of forgetting things which is ironic since if I forget something I wouldn't even be aware I've forgotten it but at least this way I have proof I was alive back then and doing x, y and z.

Not for the descendants, no. They will just have to find a better hobby, one that isn't primitive ancestor worship or involves me spending hundreds of hours of my life on something nobody might ever read and which will be completely dishonest.

The only somewhat related thing I'm thinking of doing is building a large CD collection of music. This giving future kids just starting to get into music the chance to listen to a wide catalogue of genres and influences rather than what will be curated for them by the music industry. I suppose I could just put music on a hard drive but I'm not sure it will have the same effect.

I keep notebooks for work that can work as a vague sort of diary/reminders but no I can't imagine wanting to write a memoir from them. This branch of the family tree isn't looking as though it'll bear fruit anyway.

I have some travel diaries written by my dad when he was a bit younger than I am now, though I can't read his native language and the bits in English are garbled and barely legible. Plus I'm in the process of typing up some letters written between grandparents. Other ancestors have Wikipedia pages, biographies and bibliographies I could read if I wanted. There are some recordings and at least one object in the British Museum. I'm not sure how interesting I find them, other than for this sort of vague-bragging. My dad's diaries are the ones I'd most like to read, to get a better idea of what he was like as a young man.

Is your girlfriend extremely posh? This strikes me as something you only do if you have a family library to store it in.

>>7282
The thought of a family library is very appealing, though i wouldn't want to have to move it. Books are heavy, yo.

>>7283

You don't need to move your library when it's in the country pile that's been in your family for eighteen generations.

Books are fucking heavy, though. The only ones of mine I've kept are all big cooking hardbacks and my notebooks from my previous life as a cheflad. That's just one medium sized box and it weighs about as much as I do. I just think it's simply impossible to have a substantial book collection if you ever plan to move.

>>7282
I think her grandad was loaded but he remarried when her grandma died and all of the money went to his second wife's kids. I believe his memoir is the only one she has a physical copy of, which is largely about how he was stationed in India during the Second World War and spent most of it having a lovely time mountaineering. She recently got in contact with her second cousin once removed, or whatever the fuck it is, whose family have been in Canada for several generations and they sent over a digital copy of their father's memoirs.

>>7284
You could always write a memoir and cookery book at the same time.