OK, seriously, I want to keep them but where do I put them?

clea · November 2010

I have tons, literally, of magazines.

Some are professional magazines and others just the home magazines. I don't mind getting rid of the home mags after I read them, but I feel like I need to keep the professional ones. Not that I ever go back to them since I never read them in the first place. But I still want to keep them.

Where do you suggest I stash them?

erika.gzz@hotmail.com · November 2010

You just made me laugh (In a good way)

I don't like to keep "stuff".. my husband does... but thankfully I am the one "in charge".

I always ask DH first before giving away his stuff... but if I get a response like yours ("Not that I ever go back to them since I never read them in the first place, but I still want to keep them") I would instantly give them away!!!! LOL

Do you have any book shelf?, Do you have space to get one?? How many magazzines do you have?.. what about hiding them in the attic for a year and if you don't use them (or miss them) ... give them away??

edielaura · November 2010

If they are magazines, can you tear and scan what you want to keep? I actually just got rid of what seems like a thousand pages of magazine tearouts, and I don;t miss them. Is there anyways you can throw out what you have now and start over? Although I think the tear and scan is a better option.

srs5624 · November 2010

If you don't read them when they arrive and know you won't ever reference them... why would you want to keep them? You can find past articles from magazines online now.

My DH used to bring home tons of computer magazines from work (he's in IT) with the intention of "going through them" or reading them sometime. [insert eye roll here]

He'd bring home a few at a time and they'd lay around for a few days. I'll tell him to put them away so he'd stash them in the drawers under the coffee and end tables... which then grew to both drawers of his nightstand... which then grew to a bin in the basement. I got the shits of it, he wasn't going through them, he certainly wasn't going to read them from cover to cover, and there wasn't anything of uber-importance in them that would justify the clutter.

I brought all of the magazines to the living room, told him to rip out what he wanted and scan it into the computer. He happily started going through them and ripped out an occasional page or two until he got about 4 magazines in... he decided there wasn't anything that important in them and whatever he needed could be found online. The newest ones went to the library and the old ones went out for recycling. We are now stupid magazine free... finally!

Prulove · November 2010

I dispose of my magazines on Freecycle.

Beebee09 · November 2010

If they are professional magazines can you keep them at your work desk?

AGsWife · November 2010

I keep my magazines in a leather bucket in the corner of the hallway. It's out of the way, since it's in a corner, and it is neat - the magazines stay in one place. I got it at TJMaxx. It's a large, almost oval bucket with a buckle strap on top. Mine is brown but I've seen them in lots of colors at places like TJMaxx, Marshalls, Kohls.

GoldenPeaches · November 2010

Throw them in the recycling bin. If you've never used them and likely won't in the future, why keep the clutter around your house?

clea · November 2010

Thanks everyone.

I work from home, so putting them in my office doesn't really solve the issue. If they go on a book shelf, then I have to declutter that first, which needs to be done anyway. I might have to do 15-30 minutes a day magazine read/declutter. Long story on why I get so many, but I didn't order them and will not renew most.

I do recycle the home magazines by dropping them when I go to a doctors office or somewhere like that.

I guess I;m afraid I'm going to miss out on learning something.

I did start sorting them out today. That way I can start going through some and find ways to pass them on.

Thanks again.

Emily227 · November 2010

I got several binders to sort out my magazines. I keep an envelope with 3-hole punches in each binder to store clipped articles until I can go through them further. I then organize them and put them in protective covers as a reference.

wildfloweragain · November 2010

Dh had this problem but can now access most of them online,l so he does that.

greenbean951 · November 2010

I had this problem too and I have been slowly going through them and ripping out articles that I want. Then I file them into binders with sheet protectors and dividers and recycle the rest of the magazine.

glittergal73 · December 2010

Storage benches are a great place to hide stuff like that and have something decorative/functional as well.

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