Magazines can be a dreadful cause of clutter. They end up stashed around the house, including the bathroom! After, they often just sit there collecting dust. Gather them all up and get them organized!
If you have magazines from 2003 and haven’t looked at them since then, don’t waste your space anymore. I know you tell yourself “there is one article I need in there” but if you haven’t had to reference it in 7 years, you don’t need it. Recycle it.
Now take a good look at what you have left. Perhaps you have magazines geared to a hobby you picked up but didn’t stick with. Know when to let these types of special interest magazines go. If you are no longer loving them, it is time to unsubscribe.
I suggest subscribing to only your favorite three magazines and keeping two months’ worth. Weed through them regularly. If there is a particular article that you want to save, tear it out then send the magazine to the recycle bin.
Store the sheets you tore out in an inspiration binder that you can flip through when you need fresh ideas. This is a great way to save decorating ideas!
What types of articles do you like to keep? Or do you just read and toss?
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I just started doing this. Inspiration binders are fun to flip through later. It’s interesting to see what caught your eye and to laugh at some of those “what was I thinking?!” pages.
Wow, I just did an old magazine perge at the end of the year before I moved. I had about 30 Cosmo, Vogue and Glamour mags. For years I kept them for reference and all that time I never gave them a single look. I’m glad I smartened up and recycled!
I have a binder that I have kept for years of pages I have pulled from magazines and catalogs that found inspiring or just pretty. If I pull a recipe out of a magazine I put it in my recipe book, which is a photo album with pockets where you would put photos. I just slip the recipe in to a pocket (cutting it down or rewriting it so it will fit.) I love that it also protects the recipes when we cook. Every once in a while I weed out anything that doesn’t float my boat anymore. Oh and the magazines go into the recycling bin the moment I finish reading it.
We pass our magazines on… my mom and sister both have similar tastes and so when one of us is done with our subscribed mag, we pass it on to the next…eventually all 3 of us get to enjoy the magazine, plus it’s a great moneysaver as you get to read 3 magazines for the price of one!
I have been cancelling my subsctiptions to magazines over the past few years. With three little ones at home I rarely have the time to read or enjoy them. I am too busy parenting to read about parenting!
It’s nice to save the money too!
I still receive (and keep!) every issue of Family Fun magazine. I am in the process of pulling the pages I need and want (most of them) and making a binder or file folder, but that will be a WIP project for some time.
My hubby gets a cooking magazine and is very good about immediately cutting out recipes and putting in his own binders.