I hate throwing away magazines.

Part of my moving/cleansing is throwing away old magazines. I have so many, maybe not as much as some people but the whole underside of my guest bed is stacks of magazines. So far I have kept my GRM, Model Railroader, RV Magazine and Hot Rod. I still threw out a ton of other publications I wish I could keep.

I feel your pain.

sometimes it is liberating too

So... confession time: I cut up my old GRMs and save them in those little sleeves and three-ring binders. Each article I want to keep gets cut out with a razor blade, then stapled together, and stored in the sleeve, usually two to a sleeve. I easily turned about five years of the magazine into two 3" binders. And now, it is much easier to find stuff (have to flip fewer pages) and if I want to take an article somewhere, it is already in its little storage sleeve.

God, I'm a nerd.

I keep two years worth of most of the titles I get monthly, but I have GRM back to it's Auto-X days and mt Hot Rod collection goes back to 1967. I've moved several times , including Canada to the US and they made the trek with me.

Why didn't you ask us if we wanted them? As a fellow pack rat, I won't throw away magazines. What else will I read the other 25 days of the month?

I go through them with an exacto knife and cut out the articles I want to save - staple, then punch three holes and put them in a large binder.

In reply to LainfordExpress: You're not as bad as me; I put them in a ZipLock back for future preservation.

I give mine to my neighbor, who gives me his "Autoweek" which I read and then pitch. Win/win.

I've gotten better. I still keep my GRM and a few other mags, but others go into the recycling bin after awhile: R&T, Autoweek, Sportscar, although I might save an issue if there was something interesting. I kept the Autoweek issue from 2001 after Dale Sr. was killed and a R&T issue with an interesting article by Egan about co-driving across the country with the owner of a real 289 Cobra.

I still have AutoWeeks from around '90, Sportscar back to '89, 4 Wheel & Off Road, American Rifleman. Why, I dunno??? I just hate to throw them away and nobody is really interested in them. Any needed information is easily found online w/ this thing called Google.

I store all magazines in wine boxes on metal shelving like a redneck library.

I also have a 2' plus stack of Sports Car International, most in original mailing plastic. Now them is keepers.

In reply to fasted58:

All of my various off road magazines from the 80's and 90's I managed to toss a long time ago during a "purge" that filled a 12 yd dumpster. I also lost a number of guitar magazines when my basement flooded (and inspired said 'purge'). I do miss some of the articles from when Rick Sieman was editor of Off Road and they were in their "pre-runner; anti-show truck" phase. I get over it.

I force myself to recycle all of my magazines immediately after I'm done reading them, unless there is a specific article that I know I need to see again later.

Because otherwise, I would accumulate fire hazards at the rate of 3+ per month.

I never throw magazines away. I just put them aside and reload them and use them again. I just wanted to point out that not everyone knows you can do that. Especially congress people.

Sky_Render wrote: I force myself to recycle all of my magazines immediately after I'm done reading them, unless there is a specific article that I know I need to see again later. Because otherwise, I would accumulate fire hazards at the rate of 3+ per month.

Not immediately, but every few months this is what I do as well. I used to keep magazines around forever and realized I never really re-read them, and if there is any tech info or an article, asking here or google can usually get you the answer and more pretty quickly.

Gah! I found more I didn't realize I had. Sorted through them, tossed the ones I didn't want.

I will say that I certainly had an obsession with the Challenger when it came out in '08. I have (had) every American publication from when it was introduced.