Between my husband and I, we get about 12 subscriptions. So no, we don't keep them all. We bought our mid-century modern house a year ago, so I've been keeping all copies of Atomic Ranch and some Dwell. I also keep some Food & Wine. I graduated with a degree in landscape architecture, so I keep all those very organized, to stay current in what's going on. While sometimes it's hard to recycle them, I rarely go back to most of what we subscribe to.

I am a packrat and would love to save every single magazine I ever touch. When we got married I had a stack of Martha Stewart Weddings and other bride magazines literally as tall as my waist (and I'm 5'7") - when we moved my husband refused to move them so I freecycled them. But the rest of the magazines... well, I've begun ripping them apart and throwing the recipes and articles that matter to me in a drawer that I have delusions about someday going through. We're talking 15 years worth of Martha, parenting and policital mags, plus our daughter's growing collection of Ranger Ricks... it's a little out of control. I've also resolved to try at least one of the recipes out of the drawer a week, and if I like them to find them online or scan them and file electronically so I can recycle the magazine page. Yes, I'm kind of crazy.

I keep them for a while, then I tear out the stuff I want to keep. One of these days I'll scan them into the pc or organize them in some creative way.

I keep them for a while, and then get rid of them during purges. Sometimes the old issues go to friends, but mostly they go to the recycling bin.

I've thought about getting rid of magazines altogether...but I'm not there yet.

I've started cutting out all of the relevant pages and keeping them in folders. There's only about 5 in every issue that I really want to reference later, so there's no point in keeping the whole mag.

My Martha collection got out of hand, so last year I decided I would keep a year's worth (though I don't know why?? I don't go back through them...) and then go through and pull what I want and recycle the rest. I do keep the back issues in the white magazine files shown above. IKEA is a great deal for those!

any of my fitness-related mags I pull out the good recipes (if any) and any workouts that might inspire me later on... and then those get recycled when the next issue comes around.

I am a bit obsessive about my knitting mags, though. Those I will re-visit. I mark the patterns I like, and then when I get restless, I can find something to work on. :)

It depends on the magazine. We've saved issues of Gourmet for obvious, delicious reasons but otherwise we keep them for about 6 months before recycling. A lot of our magazines (and professional journals) have online subscriptions which I use if I need to reference something after it has been recycled! (That being said we only receive 3 magazines/journals.)

I think the more pressing question for me these days is how to handle my delicious account and evernote lists with all of the blogs I've been tagging/saving over the past 3 years.

I have a lot of files of old articles and bits from old mags I kept, but I now try and read online. With my online subscriptions, I can access the archives of the magazines from the last decade and a half; much better setup than getting a dead tree version of the publication.

I have every issue of Vogue since 2000. But, since US Vogue sucks, I am going through them, pulling any decent editorials and tossing them.

I keep all my issues of Saveur and Fine Cooking. I keep all UK Vogues and any other European issues. I also keep MS Weddings (lots of inspiration). My boyfriend used to keep Dwell but he recently tossed all of his copies. If I splurge on a mag with a lot of great editorials I will keep it--like Another Magazine or Lula.

I also keep all issues of Print and Com Arts. Oh, and WWD Collections.

I still have all the magazines I've ever bought or had a subscription to. I just can't throw them away. It's the only thing I horde. It just makes me happy to flip through an old issue of YM when life seems to be going too fast... and I hate fashion these days.

I've got YM, CosmoGirl, TeenVogue, Seventeen, ElleGirl... other random short lived magazines. I read a lot when I was young. Magazines, books, whatever I could get my mitts on.

Mostly no. I keep some English decorating magazines because they are so different from American magazines and--they cost a lot!

I keep my old Martha Stewart Living mags, but I have found over the years that much gets recycled in those, so I have never subscribed consistently. Once in a while I'll pick up an issue at the grocery store that looks really good, but then I find there's repetition.

I keep, and will keep forever, CA and HOW which are design magazines for work/inspiration. Real Simple, Martha, Everyday Food, Yoga Journal, Runners World etc. are kept for about for a year and then I go through and save what I like, file in binders, and recycle the rest!

I have forced myself to only keep 1 year's worth of back issues. I feel bad about getting subscriptions to magazines anymore, with how much there is online, but then I remember that I am also helping to support the magazines!

I keep them, and after they stack up, I go through and cut out anything I really like and paste it into a book. I have it kind of organized by type of article. That way I don't have to keep all of them.

I keep the ones I think I can sell later. So, Computer Arts and BUST. The rest, I cut out and keep the articles I think I'll revisit later and the remainder of the magazine gets recycled.

Australian Real Living magazine is my favourite, and of course I keep them. I find I often come back to them, for random decorating inspiration, and I also all the recipes are great, quite a few things I've cooked from those.

I also save all my sci fi and movie mags too, very useful when I can't figure out what I'm in the mood to watch, a flick through a random will give me a good idea for a flick to watch.

As for technology magazines... they go, technology is changing so fast, their is no point to keep magazines of information that is dated.

I keep some, but only if they have images suitable for collage. Everything else goes to the "free magazine" table at work.

Yes! This Old House Martha S.!

I have a billion subscriptions, so they really stack up. Some I'll never part with (RIP Domino) but some I'll go through every few months and bring them to donate to the gym.

The fusion of two households meant going through both books and magazines on my part.

Books that I'd never read again are to be sold whereas old interior decoration magazines have been graciously forwarded to family members, who then switch batches, after which they will be transported to a Summer house of our sailing club's. Perfect for rainy days or an afternoon on the beach, even if they are five to ten years old by now, and I know for sure many will read them. The thought of this makes me really happy!

It's only after having participated in the Fall Cure of 2009 that I've realized the beauty of recycling like this - no point in hatching on something I know I'll never flick through again.

I used to save magazines. Wired has great visuals and a decent paper stock from which to make envelopes. Martha Stewart has a foodie mag that always has good recipes. The list goes on. I used to save them thinking that one day I'd go back and read the articles again.

Then I decided to save money and move to a smaller apartment. In the midst of packing, I found a closet full of boxes which were full of magazines. Somewhere along the line, I must have taken recreational drugs of some kind and gone on a hoarding spree and tucked all these magazines into a place where I would never find them again because when I did find them again, I was mortified.

I recycled them, boxes and all, and swore that I would never subscribe to or buy another magazine again. They're not good for me. And besides, the Internet has everything I need nowadays.

At the leave-a/take-a magazine rack at work, it always seems like I'm taking and hoarding more than I am leaving. This is how I have built up my collections of Dwell, Cottage Living (RIP), and Gourmet, among others. I finally bought magazine holders from IKEA to sort my piles. I feel better about having them all now!

For most magazines, i cut our the articles and photos that i like and scan them to my computer. On a rainy day, i go through and compile them in a scrapbook like photo album on a per page basis based on kitchen, living room, bathroom, if i ever had an extra room to decorate, ect. I print and put into binders by topic. I know it might seem redundant to print them, but i enjoy the inspiration books that i make.

For the magazines that i love to keep, like national geographic and dwell, i made a plexi-glass tall box on casters with a removable lid for storing them each. I then use these oddly tall boxes as plant stands that i have in my entry way.

@argylecardigan: I would love to see a picture of those plexi-glass plant stands!

After I read them they are recycled.