Could we discuss dating?

Often I write something like "photo November 3, 1999 --- journaling January 7, 2023" or "This page created on January 7, 2023."

To more specifically address your example, I'd probably make it clear in my journaling that I was reminiscing about 40 years ago and somewhere on the page include a little "This page created January 7, 2023."

 

HAHAHAHA . . . I read the title and thoughts this thread was for singles! LOL

I have been using Documented (date). I'm thinking of my kids/grandkids reading some of these pages long after I'm going, and think it will be helpful for them to understand where I was when I wrote the journaling. My perspective in my 50's is so different than in my 30's . . .

 

Like Michele I will sometimes put "journaled on date". I sometimes put ~~ before the date on these types of pages. But I have also done layouts with no date. A lot of those pages, it is clear in the journaling that it is a page reminiscing about something from my youth especially if I mentioned the years I'm talking about in the journaling.

 

I am so bad at putting dates on my pages. When I did a PL book and our Florida trips I had dates but in general layouts I mainly don't. I have not been good at printing my pages as books or anything lately. When getting around to doing my 2 vacation albums I will put dates on those. I may date this, we'll see.

 

I always "sign" and date each layout, usually in the bottom right or left bottom corner. And if there is a photo, I date it to the best of my ability, even if it is a "circa". If you look at my hobbies pages (I have 2, left & right), I referenced hobbies by each 10 years. I was born in the 1950's, so my first category was 1950's, then 1960's, etc. thru 2020's.

 

I love your punny title. I date like Michele.

 

You aren’t the only one who came to that conclusion!

 

If I'm writing super obviously about the past, and I don't have actual journaling from that time, then I'm more likely to add "journaled on" or "recorded on" or "my thoughts on" followed by todays date. Sometimes, I will start out journaling as "I remember when xxx" and tell the memory with todays date. On occasion, I've even added in "As told to me when I was x or circa x". Usually that's for stories my mom told me when I was a kid, or maybe a now deceased relative told me.

If I'm writing using journaling from that day, or just what I remember about that day (like the time at Niagara Falls when my sister broke my mom's flip flop) I usually date it as the photo date only. I figure I'm not adding anything to those type of stories because of the time passing, so I don't worry about the date.

 

Normally I date things for when the event I'm talking about happens.
Occasionally, for childhood memory pages that doesn't work as I don't have a date. I've just looked at some of those pages and they don't have dates on.

 

Like many others, I usually use a created date and make it clear that I am reflecting on the past in my journaling. I try to give at least a circa date or a time frame (When I was in college or right after xxxx) for the photos. I find it harder to fit that into my journaling when my photos are chosen to show a progression of time so sometimes each photo gets a small date in a somewhat empty spot nearby. When it's really hard to keep it all straight without messing up my design, I create an explanation, print it on acid-free paper, and attach it to the reverse of the printed photo (with washi) before putting it in my album. I haven't yet figured out how to make this work in printed books but I've not had that issue be relevant...

 

Lots of my photos from my childhood are put into what I call my "Book of Me". A lot of the layouts don't really pertain to events or vacations, just random photos from my childhood. My albums are mostly theme albums but I do try to put the layouts in chronological order if I can within those themes. But the "Book of Me" is not necessarily chronological. Yes, some layouts can be placed that way but others are just there.

 

I also add the date the event occurred and when the journaling is many years later I say - journaled on...
So many great answers here.

 

I would have no problem with dating the page "today," because it is today that you are reminiscing about your past, and creating a scrapbook page out of it. That the period about which you reminisce is not the present but the past is at least tacitly implied by the very act of reminiscence; and you've probably also flagged it more explicitly, as well ("when I was a child..." "this photo of me at age 6...").

What an interesting question, @Mingo08!

 

I use the a combo - event date, created date, journaled date..... or a mixture of them, lol! Similar to others!

 

I almost didn't click on this cause I thought it didn't apply to me since I was married. lol