shukriyya Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 If you have subscriptions to magazines what do you do with the magazine once you've read it? Do you jettison it or do you have a dedicated box for them? I've always thought to keep the cooking/lifestyle ones because of the recipes and various ideas for organization etc. But recently I noticed on a weekly organizer schedule 'throw out magazines from last week'. They're fun to go through after they've been around awhile but mostly they take up space and I find that I don't actually use the recipes and ideas. So Hive what do you do? Keep or jettison? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestof3 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I give some to my mom. The recipe one, I clip what I want and recycle the rest. If I had others, I would take them to the ortho or doctor office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I pull out the recipes I want, and recycle the magazines when I'm done. Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 (edited) I don't keep anything longer than two months. If there's a recipe I want, I take a picture of it with my phone and send the picture to live in the cloud. The magazines go out with the recycling. Edited August 31, 2012 by nmoira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I take them to the gym and leave them there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Put them in the recycle bin. Except ds's NatGeo Kids and Kids Discover. He refuses to turn loose of them, so he has a giant stack on his bookshelf. He does actually reread them, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Recycle bin, baby! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Our library has a shelf in the lobby for people to leave their old magazines. I've gotten several so current they're still being sold in the stores. Of course, I've also seen Newsweeks from 1988 and grimy Fingerhut catalogs, but that's just the thrill of the hunt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shukriyya Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 Okay then! It seems the consensus is recycle them. I've got mags from 3 years ago that I enjoy poring over from time to time but they are taking up too much space. Out they go! Thank you, ladies :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYoungerMrsWarde Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I keep old ones for the kids to cut the pictures out for collages or school projects. I used old adds and had the kids made a food group collage out of them. But you might not want to ask me. I keep waaaaay to much stuff that could potentially be used as a project that doesn't actually get used. ETA: I take out the pages of old magazines that I want to save, articles, project ideas, recipes, and I put them in a binder with the pages in cheap page protectors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I pass them down to my brother. He is am OTR truch driver so that gives him something to do when he stopped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frugalmama Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 It depends on the magazine. Things like This Old Schoolhouse & Family fun I keep the back issues. Just twaddle mags get donated to the local thrift shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestof3 Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Our library has a shelf in the lobby for people to leave their old magazines. I've gotten several so current they're still being sold in the stores. Of course, I've also seen Newsweeks from 1988 and grimy Fingerhut catalogs, but that's just the thrill of the hunt! Yeah, when I get rid of something, I first ask myself if I know anyone or anywhere I can take these. For example, our library collects batteries for proper disposal, so I put the dead ones in a pocket in my library bag and dispose of them when I go. I have a best friend who takes any hair products and lotions I dislike. I use the recycle bin as the last choice -- well -- above the trash can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I keep some for a while. I pass some on to relatives, especially when they come to visit and need something for the plane. I donate the rest to the library; they have an area for free magazine drop off. If I get totally overwhelmed and can't get in there, I recycle them. My best find on the magazine rack were some teacher magazines that were about inquiry science. I felt like Alte Veste Academy was my magazine angel for the day. BTW Dawn, In my area, we've been advised we no longer need to recycle batteries. As of last year I think, they don't take them. We've been told we can safely throw them away. It's so confusing and frustrating to feel like you have these items you can't get rid of easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I have some I refuse to throw out: Mary Englebreit's Home Companion Victoria Early Martha Stewart's Christmas/Thanksgiving volumes They take up a shelf in the library, and in the winter, I sit in there with tea and browse and fill up my creative well. I have some I rip stuff out of: Somerset Studios Cloth, Paper, Scissors Country Gardens I have one Traditional Home mag I've kept for years because I've never loved an interior as much as the one shown. I've got some quilting mags, and beading mags I keep in the 'crafts' shelves. Otherwise? Recycle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestof3 Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 BTW Dawn, In my area, we've been advised we no longer need to recycle batteries. As of last year I think, they don't take them. We've been told we can safely throw them away. It's so confusing and frustrating to feel like you have these items you can't get rid of easily. I wonder what they're doing with them at the library? :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 We cut off any address labels and DH takes them to work and puts them in his waiting room. Apparently Taste of Home disappears quickly :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annandatje Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 If you have subscriptions to magazines what do you do with the magazine once you've read it? Do you jettison it or do you have a dedicated box for them? I've always thought to keep the cooking/lifestyle ones because of the recipes and various ideas for organization etc. But recently I noticed on a weekly organizer schedule 'throw out magazines from last week'. They're fun to go through after they've been around awhile but mostly they take up space and I find that I don't actually use the recipes and ideas. So Hive what do you do? Keep or jettison? We put them in the trash after reading them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I have quilt magazines, Hobby Farm Home, Hobby Farm, and occasionally, a Countryside magazine to get rid of and I take them all to church, put up a sign that says "Help yourself", and people grab them up! If I'm there 20 minutes before church starts, there won't be any left by the end of the first hymn! I also took a big pile to our pastor's wife when she was on bedrest during the last month of her pregnancy. She then passed them onto another friend that was spending a lot of time sitting with an elderly relative in poor health. I was thrilled that they served a good purpose. National Geographic - I'm so addicted to all of the interesting articles and gorgeous photos that the kids will be digging my body out from underneath the NG avalanche when I'm an old woman! At some point, I'll donate them to the library sale in maybe half-decade increments. :D Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara in AZ Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Whatever you do, don't keep them in your bathroom for ten years or save them for twenty and then pass them on to your daughter like someone I know and love very much does for me. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobela Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Our library sells them for 25cents each at their book sales. People buy them a box at a time. I donate all mine to the library whenever I am finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I have kept alot and put them in a box. I enjoy going back threw them. I was once on bedrest and let me tell you that is a life saver. My dad who is close to 80 has kept alot that he says when he goes into confinement he will have something to do. Which brings to mind, with a bunch going on kindle, will they always print and mail them out. I sure hope so, because I don't like it on there. I love curling up and reading them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 We share ours. Kids magazines go to families we know who can't afford subscriptions. I have elderly clients who enjoy the other magazines we have: Sunset, Better Homes & Gardens, National Parks, etc. Sometimes they give me their magazines to read and share with others. My parents also share. I'd say by the time I think the magazine finally gets tossed, it's gone through about 5 hands or more! A couple years ago, I finally got my oldest to purge all his Highlights. He gave them out to kids coming to our yard sale! It was super fun and the kids really liked getting a treat. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I have a friend who gives me her old mags and I give her mine. Then I recycle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBasil Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I don't have subscriptions,but I pick up interesting ones, like National Geographics, at thrift stores. I really appreciate those who donate their magazines. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeindeed Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I either toss or donate them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I take them to the gym and leave them there. Me, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I don't keep anything longer than two months. If there's a recipe I want, I take a picture of it with my phone and send the picture to live in the cloud. Wow! This is so smart! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 The Economist is passed on to a friend who reads it after us. All other magazines are donated to the public library for the box "free magazines- feel free to take" where they vanish within hours, or to the hospital to be distributed in the waiting rooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer3141 Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I recycle mine. Cooking magazines, I cut the heck out of and place them in my three ring binders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I recycle ours. However, I believe the people I work with just bring their old magazines to work and dump them. I grabbed a magazine to read during lunch one day and noticed it was from 2006. The place I work opened in 2009- HOW did a magazine from 2006 get in our breakroom??? And as I put it back, I saw many more that were at least that old. And later I wondered why I put it back instead of tossing it into the trash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shougmom Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I wonder what they're doing with them at the library? :confused: In "my" library (that I sub at), we collect them and recycle them!!! I haven't heard anything about this changing anytime soon... :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 We save them for crafts and collages which has come in handy several times for school. Once, my daughter made a "Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness" word collage from magazines for social studies. More recently she did the SOTW activity that involved making a "mosaic calendar" using images from magazines. She could pick any theme she wanted and went with desserts. She had so much fun doing that, she may want to do more calendar pages for other months using different themes. And my son did an Alphabet Collage for wrapping up Kindergarten (finding capital letters of the alphabet and pasting them into his main lesson book). Other times, for fun, we do an idea I read about in Family Fun Magazine once- give the child a picture torn out from a magazine and encourage them to mount it on a larger piece of paper and then draw the UNSEEN parts of the picture, what they think would be all around that picture. Fun stuff. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 In "my" library (that I sub at), we collect them and recycle them!!! I haven't heard anything about this changing anytime soon... :001_huh: As I said, my city no longer accepts them for recycling. In summary, because alkaline batteries no longer contain mercury and because of the small amount of recoverable metals in them, they are not typically recycled. http://willtaft.com/there-may-be-no-need-to-recycle-alkaline-batteries/ If one has a way to pass on magazines, I think it doesn't matter how old they are. There are plenty of nice recipes in old cooking magazines, for example. I took two copies of Cooking Light home when I left mine last weekend, and one was from 2000! but I found a couple yummy sounding recipes in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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