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How do you store your mags?

So I started cutting out the articles I REALLY wanted to read and making a scrapbook out of them, and throwing the rest out. BTW, it'll take a long time to go through them if you decide to do this, but I think it's worth it. And now I don't have to worry about remembering which magazine that cool article on global warming (just an example) is.
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Now THAT is interesting. I hang on to a lot of magazines and then realize that there really isn't a point. At least with the National Geographics, I can take them to the school and have them sit stoically in the corner. A few kids will peruse through them. Ditto TIME. The girls in the cottage where I work, need more serious material than People or Reader's Digest.:rolleyes:
 
I store my mags under the cushions of my couch in my den so that my wife does not find them.
 
Why store magazines at all? Throw them out! Once gone, rarely regretted. I do keep old Consumer Reports for 5 years in a stack, so that my dh can look things up. That's probably about 4 years too long because nothing sold over one year ago can be bought now. The model has changed, the features have changed, and the price has changed.

Our local community college has a free exchange table. Abandon there all unwanted paperbacks and magazines, meanwhile helping yourself to anything of interest.
 
Silverseason has a point – on the other hand, one could ask why, if magazines are only temporarily worthwhile, why would books be any different?

I do different things with different magazines. I have a few comics that I have kept, usually on a shelf or in a box. I have a very limited number of specialist periodicals (posh magazines) that I keep (in essence, the monthly Black & White Photography/ Some things, like editions of Philosophy Now hang around for a while (and I might keep the odd article), but eventually they got in the recycling box, to be joined by the really briefly-lived magazines, such as Marie Claire.
 
silverseason said:
Why store magazines at all? Throw them out!
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Depends what the mag is. I get Sound on Sound magazine, and at just under £5 a pop I don't want to bin it. Not right away at least.

I won't go into why I want to keep some other kinds of magazines I get.
 
CDA said:
Depends what the mag is. I get Sound on Sound magazine, and at just under £5 a pop I don't want to bin it. Not right away at least.

I won't go into why I want to keep some other kinds of magazines I get.
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and I won't suggest why you should throw them out. But it's safe to say, you already suggest where.
 
I have a big basket in my living room where I let them pile up. Once they start piling over, I recycle a bunch of them. I also tend to give my magazines away, either to family members or people at work. I read my magazines almost as soon as I get them, so I don't usually have any lying about that I haven't read.
 
You can put some magazine piles about 10-20 of them in the living room, and another 10-20 piles in the guest room. You can even donate some of them to your friends or sell it as one of the items in your garage sale. It's a honest idea at least, I hope this helps.
 
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