Keep Your Old Magazines?
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- keewee
Having a bit of a dilemma in determining the usefulness of my old design books and magazines . Every once in a while I might find something of value, but mostly I find dust bunnies... Thoughts?
- barbara0
purge!
- Miguex0
Magazines, depends which ones. I wouldn't throw away design books though
- ArsenicPants0
I have too much shit. I'm like you though I guess, I just feel bad throwing it away.
wanna buy some old magazines?
- barbara0
giving them to students is a cool idea. drop them off at your local college or a community place that has art and design workshops for young'ins.
- pango0
get a unpaid intern to scan them all then sell it. sell the intern too lol.
I still have raygun. looking back, it's kina crap.
- refunktion0
turn them into furniture.
- fiver0
what if you job is to make mags? this becomes a problem.
- mg330
I have so many issues of GQ, Details, and travel mags from the past several years. After a year has gone by, I usually cut out the stuff I want to keep: recipes, articles, book reviews, travel reviews, architecture, etc etc. I have folder boxes with folders labeled for these topics. I'm very neurotic about it.
I have lots of issues of IDN, Print yearly annuals, Vice, and some other random design mags. I don't cut these up.
- sine0
i used to keep a lot of magazines, but started throwing a lot of them out... i keep tears in a big folders, and a small stack of newer magazines i can't get rid of just yet. every now and then i'll clean up by going through old ones and archiving tears i wish to keep in a folder.
- 23kon0
I've still got issue #1 of
that i've kept.I think the other ones were all cut up back in the day for college projects/collages/photocopy fun.
- goldieboy0
I give my old design books away to the local charity shop. But my mags...
- fadein110
Always hard to throw away but I did recently... I kept key ones that meant something to me. Had to go - the most pain in the ass thing about moving house apart from big stuff.
- Yes, books are a massive backbreaking bitch. Can't throw away the goodies tho********
- Yes, books are a massive backbreaking bitch. Can't throw away the goodies tho
- i_monk0
Purge. Go through them, cut out any pages with anything worth keeping, then toss – or better yet, give them to a middle school teacher for art class, because kids love cutting up magazines for stuff.
- DRIFTMONKEY0
Keep them. In 20 years, you may be fond of looking through history. I wish I had kept my old BMX Plus and Thrasher mags from the 80's.
- I wish I'd not lost all my Big Brothers. Had several from when you had to be 18 to buy them.mg33
- Big Brother was so refreshing. I remember an article on how to not get caught drunk driving.DRIFTMONKEY
- Remember the How To Kill Yourself article?mg33
