Do you save magazines?

No. I don't have any subscriptions. I do have some crafting related magazines. I did subscribe to Just Cross Stitch but they got on my nerves with their solicitations to renew when I had just renewed, so I didn't renew again.

Magazines can be donated to local thrift stores (I'd avoid Goodwill and Salvation Army for that) who will usually put them out for free. And people do take them. Our PAWS had cross stitch magazines and pamphlets for free once. I put money in their donation box for them.

Also I see magazines at the community room at my stepfather's mobile home park. I'm sure people utilize and enjoy those also.
 

Jules said:
I had numerous subscriptions, especially for home design and decorating. After we moved my husband said those were the heaviest boxes. One day I put them in a garage sale for $5 a box. One lady was ecstatic.
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A local quilt guild has a show every other year. They haven't had it due to covid. They have a sale area for items donated by the guild with super good prices. I got some books last time. I'm not a quilter but do some hand sewing. One woman was grabbing quilt magazines like crazy. They were only 25 cents each. They are supposed to have the show next year I believe.

Magazines are not cheap new, so I'm sure that lady was thrilled with the deal.
 
Parents did. If one lives for decades in a sizeable home, there is little penalty. All of us were major readers and I still am. In this new Internet era, paper magazines are less relevant. Saving magazines even less so. In a smaller residence like most apartments, once one got into their middle ages, ever growing stacks just take up useful space. A decade plus ago, I tossed stacks of magazines, I'd been procrastinating for years to get rid of. Have kept a few as momentoes. Many folks tend to toss magazines if they move. After I retired, I also tossed stacks of technical books I'd used and studied in my career, especially many component data catalogs and references, while again saving a few.
 

The only magazine I ever saved was Vintage, and the value of the first year;s issues went up tremendously. I donated to the UC Davis Dept of Oenology and took the tax writeoff.
As far as NG goes, I had an idiot office mate that had years of issues and when he moved he paid to have them moved:eek:
 
Any kind of collection can get out of hand, whether it's magazines, books, or teapots. But, a reasonable amount can be a source of pleasure. My Mother collected salt and pepper shakers. She had 20 or 30 sets. Each set was a memory of where and when she got it. They meant little to anyone else. I kept one set. It reminds me of all the others.

Old magazines are kind of like time machines. I even enjoy the ads, especially the artwork for automotive companies. I love the way they rendered chrome.
 
I have never saved magazines. However, my two sons did. When I was getting ready to sell the house, and they did not want them, so out they went. Several large, heavy boxes. Several contained National Geographic.
 

Do you save magazines?​

Old Mother Earth News
We have a stack of old ones when they first came out
Later issues pretty much sucked

I do have one issue of Salmon, Trout, Steelhead
From the '80s
It contains some pertinent stuff on how the steelies bite and how to find them....lest I forget

Had a subscription, but found subscriptions weren't the way to go
Too many worthless issues
Off the shelf was better

Guess they're still selling 'em;

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When my sisters and I moved my dad to a care facility I "inherited" his collection of Arizona Highways. He had been subscribed to that magazine for nearly 60 years (it used to be an Arizona thing to do). At one point he had every magazine but he weeded out some of them a few years ago and now I have about 80 issues, some dating back to the early 60's. Some are collectors items but I am going to hold on to them because I do like to leaf through them for nostalgic reasons. One of my nephews expressed interest in them so I told him he can have them once I hit the highway.
 
Bella said:
I love magazines and had subscriptions to them a few years ago. For what it's worth, the only subscription I have now is to AARP magazine. :rolleyes: The only ones I saved were a few old Gourmet magazines that were my mother's and some National Geographic and cooking magazines. I got rid of the National Geographic, but I still have several neatly organized Saveur and Cook's Illustrated magazines. Cook's was so clever and came up with an index book, so you know exactly in which issue to find the recipe you're looking for. I have favorites that I refer to all the time. I enjoy reading magazines but no longer want any delivered to my mailbox. I don't need any more paper, there's already enough junk mail to deal with.

1949 Gourmet
Gourmet Cover Illustration Of A Crown Roast Print by Henry Stahlhut
Gourmet Cover Of Cherry Flambe Print by Henry Stahlhut
1996 Saveur
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That's interesting, @Bella, I have some of my Mom's Gourmet magazines, too. Not many. I just can't seem to part with them.
 
MarkinPhx said:
When my sisters and I moved my dad to a care facility I "inherited" his collection of Arizona Highways. He had been subscribed to that magazine for nearly 60 years (it used to be an Arizona thing to do). At one point he had every magazine but he weeded out some of them a few years ago and now I have about 80 issues, some dating back to the early 60's. Some are collectors items but I am going to hold on to them because I do like to leaf through them for nostalgic reasons. One of my nephews expressed interest in them so I told him he can have them once I hit the highway.
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My folks subscribed to Arizona Highways in the fifties. I have fond memories of it. Neither one of them ever lived in Arizona.
 
I subscribe to "Hemmings" magazine. It's a car book. I read through the articles that interest me and then pass it onto my neighbor who is also a gearhead.
 
My father used to subscribe to National Geographic, which occupied several feet of shelf space as it accumulated over a few years. After he passed, my mother was lured into Publisher’s Clearing House ads, and bought magazines she never read, convinced that she was within striking distance of winning their jackpot.

I once bought Time or Newsweek subscriptions, but now only have digital subscriptions that come with Amazon Prime Reading membership.
 
My folks never subscribed to anything other than the daily paper.

As an adult I subscribed to a couple of different homemaker style magazines but never for more than a year or two. I’d cut out the articles that interested me and put them in a binder. I still have that binder and those articles!

10 years ago I subscribed to Real Simple magazine for a year. I kept a few of those issues for a while but eventually donated them.
 
I used to love magazines! Could not get through a check out line without including a few. Later on I subscribed to a few horse magazines and homesteading ones. Eventually I gave them to a friend and stopped subscribing. I still have Back Woods Home magazine on my Kindle. I don't see a need for them anymore. Anything I want to see is online and current.

One magazine I saved was Hobby Farms because a reporter interviewed me for that issues about cooking on my wood cook stove. Other than that I don't have any. Too much clutter for me.
 
I do save some the magazines I have subscribed to - the magazines related to the original Star Trek, Some National Geographic magazines and some that are related to special subjects I am interested in. One of my interests is archeology and I do save some of the those. magazines. I'm an incorrigible pack rat, so I have to be really careful about what and how much I save. If I let myself, I would fill the house up with stuff I saved.
 
Grampa Don said:
Here's one I bought in 1954. At the time, I didn't understand any of it, but I thought it was neat. I wouldn't part with it now.

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OH, Wow. QST brings back so many memories. They are old friends. My dad was an electrician's mate in the Navy. He was into amateur radio in the 1950s. So, I was into amateur radio. I needed to be proficient in Morse Code to get my license., but I just couldn't do it. The QST mags had a unique smell to them, and like you I had a hard time understanding them. Thanks for posting them
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