One of the easiest ways to make order out of that pile of magazines that's threatening to topple over is to organize them in magazine file boxes. Once they're tucked away in the boxes they'll line up neatly on a bookcase, desk or window sill and be ready for your perusal at a moment's notice. The kind of file boxes you use depends on your aesthetic. We've covered most of the bases here – from simple cardboard to colorful and modern.
Top Row:
• Cork Magazine Caddy from PB Teen $19.99
• Martha Stewart Home Office Magazine File from Quill $9.49
• Bankers Box Magazine File Holder from Staples $3.49
• Library Logo Corrugated Magazine File from The Library Store $2.29
Middle Row:
• Recycled Corrugated Magazine Holders from Office Depot $16.89/pack of 6
• Set of 4 Magazine Files from Crate & Barrel $15.95
Bottom Row:
• Brocade Magazine File from The Container Store $14.99
• Atheneum Magazine File from GreenCupboards $19.99
• KNUFF Magazine File from IKEA $9.99/set of 2
• Martha Stewart Living Craft Space Magazine File from Home Decorators Collection $14
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i love kassett from Ikea, only $3.99 for two.
Second the Kassett.
And a kassett will likely blend with other storage you have. I have Kassett for CDs and printer paper.
I'm debating on how long a magazine should take up space in my home.
Two seem to stick around: Vegetarian Times and a professional journal.
It seems I should keep the pro journal until they develop a great online archive. And honestly, the ads they have are actually useful.
But the recipe magazine? I'm thinking six, a year, at most.
And one silly question, because I see both, how do you store the cases? Spines in so you see the box or spines out to see the spines of the magazines? And why?
I have never understood the need to keep magazines. If there is an article you need to keep, keep it. There is no reason to keep the whole thing. People keep way too much paper they don't need. I took a class years ago . . . one of the things I remember is how to read a magazine: (1) tear off the cover and back pages; (2) remove all pages of advertisement and supplemental enclosures; (3) tear all only the articles you actually have interest in; (4) keep these pages in a file folder to pull out for reading while you're waiting in a doctor's office or standing in lines at the DMV or grocery store. There are usually only 2-3 articles in any given magazine that really apply to my life. Hence, no need to keep bulky pages no one will ever use.
I got a set of the Ikea FLYT cardboard magazine file boxes and covered them in kraft paper and embellished them with hand drawn lines and squares, with some 2nd hand name plates for that "formal" look.
I love the wooden Ikea ones. I don't have any magazines or journals that I store but would be nice to store random papers like important receipts or health papers. If I get tired of the regular wood I could paint them! Must plan a trip to ikea.
All that? Subscribe online.
I am getting very serious about the number of magazines I subscribe to and also about reading them and getting them to a friend (and thus out of my house). Though I love the brocade from Container World, I just don't want to keep magazines around. On my bookcases I possibly have some, fewer than five, but they are with the category where they belong (such as a shelter magazine with my interior design books).