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For a long time now, i've just clipped out what i wanted to keep and used a glue stick to paste them into blank books. I've found if i tear out every third page of the blank book, they don't get too thick. I tried plastic sleeves, but my collection became too heavy and sometimes all i wanted was the small pic off of a large page. The blank books work wonderfully.

Like you, I keep all my issues of Living etc. intact. I also keep the best issues of cooking magazines in Semikolon boxes - I like my bookcase to look sharp. I have to say that these boxes are kept in my living room.

For the rest, I do have have your patience. So I decided a few weeks ago that I am keeping my favorite home decor magazines up to a year. I store them in neat Semikolon boxes in my home office. When the boxes are full; it is time for a purge. The rest goes to the recycle bin. Otherwise, there is too much clutter in the house.

I need to corral my home magazines, but I'm currently happy with my recipe clippings system. Recipes are put in sheet protectors in a binder and separated into categories, i.e.-- appetizers, salads, soups, etc. When I use a recipe, it gets rotated to the front of its section. This allows me to keep track of how often a recipe is used. New recipes reside in the pockets of the binder. I try to sample these first. If they pass the 'binder test', they get a place with the regulars.

I have a system as well...it works great!

I have one large shoebox with magazines and catalogues that I've read. I have another box that size with clippings. And I have a journal of clippings that have been lucky enough to find a home.

Whenever my husband goes out of town, it's my favorite thing to do. I can tape in already-clipped images or I can go through my box of magazines and just clip more stuff. It's nice to be able to just put everything in a box for later if I'm not feeling it. It also helps because then I can decide later if it's really something I want to keep for my journal.

That space looks nice. I tear the pages out and cut them later. I like your idea better. I keep running out of plastic sleeves though. I may also need to figure out a better way to store them as they are in different 3-ring binders (one for every room, outdoors & then a large misc binder) and they are starting to get too full. The problem with pasting is a lot of the pages have things I like on both sides. Any ideas for an every growing collection of clippings?

I go through magazines about a month after I've bought them and cut out everything I want to keep - I have some of the wooden storage drawer sets from IKEA and I use these to separate them into categories :
full page fashion
small fashion
full page white interiors
small white interiors
full page other interiors
small other interiors
cooking
travel/places
art/craft

then I put the full page pictures into binders with clear pockets and the small pictures get stuck into scrapbooks

Sometimes I'm in the mood for sutting and sorting - sometimes for glueing so not having to do everything at once works for me

I must admit i don't look at the binders as often as I do the scrapbooks so I try not to keep so many full page images these days

The scrapbooks I make I refer to over and over again - theres nothing quite as lovely as taking some time out to look through a book that contains nothing except images that you love

As a magazine designer, I suggest you all just remember what issue the cool picture is in.

radiobaby- this is why I keep full pages of everything I tear out.

I dog-ear pages as I'm reading the mags, keep them for a year and then once ever few months pull out what I've dog-eared and still like and file it into a hanging file system.

My recipes get pasted onto white scrapbook pages and then filed into 12x12 scrapbooks -- this allows for expansion and protects the recipe while I'm cooking from it. I have two - one for "everyday food" and one for entertaining.


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I know the problem too... My mother as some french deco magazines from the 80's! And almost every week there's one more to add the pile.

But I just can't cut them and choose the best parts. I don't know, it's not as the mags had the feelings, but I have! lool

I have a thing with mags and books:) Paper and that's all said;)

This is one of the best things I did the last time I moved, it cut down my hoarding of design mags to one binder rather than 3 HEAVY boxes. And it's all sorted by room/area of the house in my binder.

I rip pages out (or fold corners) as I read it the first time. I don't want to spend time flipping around again and looking for a certain page. My co-workers are used to me sharing mags with missing pages. Then, I toss them in a file folder. I respect the binder/insert discipline - but that's just to dear for me.

magazines... i just pull stuff of the web and keep it on my ipod touch. i do want to start looking through magazines though and scan pages and place them on the ipod.

I love the Web idea but the pics are never as good. Frequently they're dinky.

I do some tearing and some keeping whole mags, but I don't have a lot... I generally don't buy a magazine unless it has a ton of stuff I love. So my collection is pretty little to begin with.

I tear pages out after 6 months - and have a seperate binder with page protectors for each room. After I remove the pages, I bring the magazines to my gym and put in the shared reading rack there. They always seem to disappear fast - clearly no one minds that they are a bit depleted idea-wise. And I feel better that I didn't just throw them out - it relieves some of my guilt for being a magazine junky.

With cooking and design magazines, I tear out what I want to keep after reading/flipping through a few times. I keep the clips in a notebook/folder. No room for whole magazines!

In addition to / instead of paper clipping, go electronic. Many magazine subscriptions give you access to the online version. Digg the articles you like with appropriate tags. It's easy to make notes about why you liked a photo or article.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for advertisments, which often have great ideas.

I have a stack of magazines that I had planned to tear but I have decided to scan the pages that I want and keep them on a hard drive. It's more time consuming initially but, it saves a lot of space and will be much quicker to access.

Pull them out, place in the feeder of my Snapscan to PDF on my hard drive. I love the speed of this scanner, it can handle slightly ripped, jagged edges or folds in the paperl, and automatically scans both sides of the page.

I do the opposite, tear out the pages I don't like. Then I have a much skinnier magazine that goes into an Ikea magazine holder

I did something like this years ago with fashion/beauty mags, and have to admit, I've NEVER looked at the binder I so painstakingly made. Now I just keep really important/sentimental issues. I have to be ruthless to avoid clutter. (It's a challenge, but so worth it!) In my magazine boxes I have Blueprint (so sad it's no longer around!) and InStyle Makeover additions. Then there are a few others, (Domino's Green Issue, Martha Stewart's Holiday Crafts issue, etc) and THAT'S IT!