Keeping ALL the Planner Pages? Why?!

I am a paper hoarder. Being a journaler and a planner tends to lead to this.
I'm not talking about patterned paper, or post-its or anything like that, but written-on paper.
My words on paper. And there's so much of it. Everywhere. It expands exponentially, it seems. And as I am packing things up, it has become so much more apparent.

There is paper everywhere.
I don't mind it, so to say, but it's a lot. And it will only continue to grow.

I like memory keeping. I like having old journals. I know this because I have gotten rid of old journals before and it was quite a bad decision. I have gotten rid of older planner pages, only to find out that there was information on them that would have been nice to have now.
So I'm aware of the results of not keeping things. Which, has not helped the holding-on-to-everything bit.

While I've only been "seriously" planning since October or so, it's a lot. To-do list, daily pages, monthly pages, notes to self, Christmas planning, all sorts of things.
And I have all of it. In my filing cabinet, as one does, but it's messy, and it's a lot, and we both know it will continue to grow.

So, what to do?
There is no sense in saying "keep it all!" as the basic everyday is not something to remember. Especially knowing how my days go, this is 100% true. But saying "chuck it all" is also nonsense.
There has to be a middle ground.
Which I think I have found.

It's in the same frame as scrapbooking. You keep the good photos, you don't print out the ones that didn't turn out, and hold onto those. You don't have photos of every single little thing, but there isn't only photos of the big days (and if you count Project Life as scrapbooking, some photos of the random bits, but not every single bit of every single day!).

So why do the same thing with planner pages? Am I really going to want to know every time I went grocery shopping? Every time I did the dishes? Every time I cooked spaghetti for dinner?
Of course not!

So the plan is as follows.
Go through everything. And keep what is important. If that means a whole month gets chucked, that's perfectly fine. If that means a lot more than planned gets saved, that's fine as well.
My day-to-day is not going to be what I want to look back on. But the events and activities that involve spending time with other people, or large projects...that's what I'm going to want to know about. Christmas plans, I'm going to want to remember. Motorcycle days, I'm going to want to remember. Days spent cleaning...not so much.

While I have not decided when to do this yet - as I don't want to pull everything out as I've managed to stuff the filing cabinet with as much as I can so it barely fits - I do plan on sharing how it works out.
But it makes perfect sense. And it will end up saving me so much space. Which I'm all for.

~Havok