My father is in a rant because my Mom has magazines from 3 yrs ago in boxes that she won't let him throw away. I think its nuts I chuck after they are 2-3 months old or as soon as I know I am done.

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I used to keep them for years, but found that a local nursing home was in need of them ,so now I keep them a few months then donate them.

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I read them and pass them on to my sister or mother immediately...except for Taste of Home. I keep those forever and have a whole drawer full.

I can relate! I used to keep them also but now when I am finished I take them to our local Community Center to share.

I take them to our local doctor's office since I know for a fact that the wait is long. Ugh.

It's hard to look through all the magazines I get (all free!) with a new baby in the house. I have a pretty big stack right now to go through, but normally I read through them and if there are any pages that I'm interested in, I just tear them out and put the rest of the magazine in my recycle bin. I really should take them to a senior center or school, but I don't know if I'd ever get around to it any time soon. I definitely don't keep them for 2-3 years (except for Tast of Home and Cooking for Two).

I read them and then pitch them. If there is a recipe or something I want in it, I just tear out that page.

Great idea donating them to a nursing home or Docs office. Thats what I am going to do.

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Some I keep forever - Home Companion and MS Living, others, like BH&G or Country Living, I tear out what I want to keep and pitch the rest.

My parents have National Geographics dating back to the 1940's in their basement and a couple of closets. When I ask my dad why he's keeping them he says he wants to read them. He's 84 and has thousands of magazines stashed away - wishful thinking. I keep telling him that the magazines are not of any value and he should just dump them but I think he thinks he's sitting on a gold mine and the Antiques Roadshow will come begging for him to be on the show any day now.

For the past 20 years or so, my folks have given us a subscription to National Geographic as part of our Christmas present. They were appalled when I told them that I let the kids cut them up for school projects and that I put them out in the recycling after a few months.

My point is, I try not to keep them around. I'm laughing at myself now because in 30 years, my kids will be telling me to get rid of those old Martha Stewart magazines I've been holding on to.

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I keep my Creating Keepsakes magazines for a long time, especially if there is a layout I want to copy or something. Ditto with my cooking mags.

Star, People, or ones like that, I trash after I finish reading them.

Holly

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Don't trash 'em!!! Take them to my doctor's office. Those are the most fun to read when I have my feet in the stirrups having one of those "Calgon, take me away!" moments! Yeehaw!

We read them as soon as they come in and then I donate to the Medical clinic here, some are saved for the school project room and I keep the cooking/craft magazines. Those last two kinds of magazines I sit down and go thru them every couple of months, save out what I want and then recycle what is left over.

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OMG, mine do to!!! Actually, I think theirs only go back to the 60's, but they have boxes of them. They think they're worth something, too!!!

I keep cooking magazines like vegetarian times (I'm not vegetarian, but like to incorporate some of the recipes into our diet. I also keep the Kraft magazine.

Others, I pitch as soon as I read them - Readers Digest, Newsweek, whichever one's I currently get.

Lisa

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I have 3 magazine subscriptions.. I keep them in the closet and give them to my mom when she I see her.

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This is one thing that I can't stand I am becoming like my mom, she has magazines from 10-15 years ago, she gets about 12 magazines a month and keeps them for years and i realized with this post I have to start throwing some of mine away TODAY!

I pass all my magazines on to my adult DD's after I read them. The only magazines I might keep are some craft or woodworking ones that have patterns and that type thing, but I don't keep alot of them and they are on the bookshelves in the library with the other books.

As far as the National Geographics, as far as a magazine I don't know what they would be worth if anything, but the Coca-Cola ads in them a ARE worth a few dollars. I collect CocaCola memorabelia and I have alot of the old ads out of National Geographics.

Some of them actually are worth a few bucks
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Another thing you can do with the magazines is sell them at Half-Price Books. They don't pay a whole lot, but I have always gotten a minimum of $5, sometimes more, for a paper grocery bag full.

Jenn

I donate mine to a local library and they sell them for $.10 or $.25 just for a little extra cash for their children's programs. It's not much but it helps them out.

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I hang on to my magazines until an opportunity comes along to donate them to go into care pkgs. for our soldiers overseas.

I kept every issue of Martha Stewart Magazine and most of the holiday women’s magazines. Recently, dh and I cleaned out our garage and all the magazines we’d been storing. I realized that all these magazines I believed I would consult again in the future for recipes or decorating or holiday baking, never materialized. I didn’t go back through the magazines. I ended up getting the newer ones.

Dh boxed up his woodworking magazines and a ton of photography magazines.

We boxed all the magazines up and donated them to the local public library. I kept the first issue of Martha Stewart Lviving magazine, however. They either add them to their collector or sell them in their bookstore for $0.25 each. At least they are recycled in that way.

Nowadays, I keep all the Rachel Ray magazines I have received and have been going back through them for recipe ideas, but I’ve been cutting out the recipes and putting them into a photo album so that I have a ‘working recipe book’ in which I can wipe down the plastic pages.

We keep the other magazines, mostly free subscriptions, until we read and review them, then deliver those to the local library. It’s amazing how the free subscriptions pile up!

Since most of the ones I get are free magazines anyways I usually thumb through them and then toss them in the recycling.
Now the sports ones usually stick around for awhile.

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I get lots of magazines and when I am done with them I pass them on to my parents who pass them on to other family members when they are done with them.

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I try to read them when they first come in. After that, if I'm not done with them, I put them in a basket in my family room. I grab one or two if I have an appointment or I know I'll have to wait for something (like my kids sports practices, etc.). Every few months, I go through the basket and either give them away or recycle them in the bin at a local school.

I do hold on to some of the scrapbook and card making magazines because I refer back to them often when I'm looking for a project.

Sarah........mom to Jason & Devin

unless I am saving them for my daughter, I toss them after I read them

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