Getting rid of old magazines...

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I'm cleaning house here and i've come up with a stack of about 100 magazines of various types i've had sitting around for at least 7 yrs or so (Rolling Stone, Premiere, American Film, Esquire...please, stop laughing!) and i don't really want to just throw them to the junk pile.

Any ideas on any other ways to get rid of them out there?!!?

― Phil Dokes (sunny), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Certain recycling centers accept magazines...you could check around in your area and see if a nearby recycling place takes magazines.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

donate them to a doctor's or dentist's waiting room

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Sell them on ebay.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, that's worked out great for you.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a paper millionaire.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

In my condo building, people leave magazines and other potentially useful things in the laundry room, for other people to take with them as they want. I don't know how long they're allowed to stay before the janitor cleans them out. Someone left a sofa this week!

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

What is the item with the lowest potential for usefulness you have ever seen in there?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I'm leaving about two dishwasher-sized boxes worth of stuff in my cabana, with a big "free if you want it" sign. Everything from T-shirts I don't wear to cologne I didn't want to toys from gumball machines.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Usefulness is relative, but I'll give extra points to the box of cat litter someone left after moving out.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 23 May 2003 03:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I just brought a Hefty black bag full of clothes down to the laundry room, I hope someone up in this bitch over here takes some of em. Possibly I didn't need to put the Pepe le Pew boxers in there.

Old magazines -- I'm giving some of those away, tossing others, depending on the nature. The friends who are getting most of my stuff are going to be delighted to discover that in the boxes of their new stuff is the Sherilyn Fenn issue of Playboy.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 23 May 2003 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

You could give them to a Salvation Army type place, if they're in decent condition. The Brown Elephant down the street sells magazines for 25 cents.

Why are you getting rid of the Sherilyn Fenn issue?

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 23 May 2003 03:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Partly because I know the friends in question are fans. Partly because, to be honest, I suspect I'll remember the photos long enough that the magazine is obsolete. Partly because I've talked to her, and now it's just ... weird ... seeing the photos. Not "well, she isn't hot anymore" weird, but weird.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 23 May 2003 03:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a huge problem with getting rid of magazines. I even have a big magazine rack in my house (the kind that hang on walls in deps) that I found in the street, and it is overflowing. Somebody help me. I just can't bear to get rid of them--they always seem like they have some residual value of some kind (and I'm not talking monetary) that prevents me from just recycling the fuckers.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 23 May 2003 03:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't have any old magazines save for a bunch of Downbeats from the late 60s that my last roommate left for me. I like pulling them out now and then, and I can't imagine anyone else would pay much money for them.

I'm not a pack rat at all; if anything I'm too quick to get rid of stuff. But yet I still buy stuff like mad (or did), so it evens out.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 23 May 2003 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been going through my books trying to figure out ... why the hell do I have so many? ... especially since there are several boxes still at my mother's, the books I had in high school, so these 25 boxes are basically things I've accumulated in my 20s. Some of it's school-related, which comes out to a lot because I've majored in popular culture, sexuality (those go to the ex), English, and history/religious studies. Some of it's writing-related -- books I want to "write like," copious reference books on science and history and language and so on, a few books on writing tips, etc. Some of it's just plain "fiction I'll re-read forever." Most of it is from various obsessions which go away only to recur. I'm a packrat about interests and hobbies, I think.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 23 May 2003 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

This was getting to be a big problem until I gave up reading the NME a few months ago, because basically I had 4 and a half years worth of them on a creaking shelf in my cupboard. Walker's crisp boxes are fantastic for storing them in. You get a year in each box.

I also have shit loads of Melody Makers, Selects, and oodles of football magazines, none of which I can bear to part with because I still go back a re-read them sometimes.

― Nick H, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

If you have the time get a cheap scanner and scan the stuff you want to keep, burn it on a cd-r. It takes less room.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

But I end up spending like a whole week reading a year's worth of them. I read it all more or less.

― Nick H, Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

We take 'em to a laundromat nearby, or used to, until we discovered the landromat that has a pinball machine. But the funny thing about the laundromat we used to take them to is that we buy & subscribe to a TON of magazines, so we were leaving, like, huge piles of 'em there, leaving enough stuff to entertain practically anybody. Any give week there'd be twenty to thirty magazines there, three-quarters of them ours. One week we come in to do laundry and there's a handwritten note on lined notebook paper taped to the table where the magazines sit. The note reads:

PLEASE DO NOT STEAL THE MAGAZINES
?management

This was the beginning of me becoming permanently confused.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 12 June 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

(that question mark should be a dash, sorry)

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 12 June 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe the laundromat was writing a note to itself? You know, to stop stealing magazines from the D4rn133l3s?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 12 June 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

A laundromat with a pinball machine? That's my idea of heaven.

(or a more pleasant purgatory)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 12 June 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

the idea that the laundromat was writing a note to itself to stop stealing our magazines is like some bizarre admixture of Raymond Carver & Gabriel Garcia Marquez

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 12 June 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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