Keep Your Old Magazines?
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- mg330
Sine,
I've been getting National Geographic for a few years now. I would never toss those out; one of my grandfathers had at least a decades worth, and I loved having them to read growing up. Not sure what happened to them after they moved and eventually passed away. But hope to have a similar collection someday.
- sine0
^ yeah. i've got a stack of Wallpaper and CR Annuals or quarterlies or whatever they are. threw away my old Face and other random mags. also kept some old Surfer and The Surfer's Path mags.
a few years back i was obsessed with old National Geographic magazines. from the 70s... i had hundreds and buy them from thrift stores whenever i spotted them. amazing photography and articles. threw them away a while back.
- my mom owned a bookstore and collects rare books. the stuff she has... picture double-volume wall-to-wall bookshelfs...sine
- ... bookshelves. and she is obsessed with architecture, furniture, fiction and philosophy.sine
- nice sine... nice
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- mirrorball0
I've all of my Face Mags, they've become more of an Ikea Expedit filler than anything else, but chics love em for some reason, checking out 80's stars first mention etc...
Still can't be throwing my editions of Computer arts, Grafik, Wallpaper and Creative Review out even though they have all just sat there gathering dust for the past couple of years. Pinterest and my external HD holds most of my inspiration these days... sigh.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- fiver0
what if you job is to make mags? this becomes a problem.
- refunktion0
turn them into furniture.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?