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I as many of you have tons and tons of craft magazines at home that I can't bare to toss though they take up so much room. I was wondering if any of you have any ideas or if any of you clip the important stuff out and make a scrapbook with the clipping? Please give me some ideas my husband is threatening to toss them !!! lol
Thanks that is kinda what I've been thinking of but just havent gotten the nerve up yet!! lol Not sure why it bothers me I guess maybe I'm afraid I'll miss something !! lol
Funny you should ask this.... I just noticed a huge stack of old craft mags in my basement while cleaning yesterday. I'm going to just chunk them in the recycling bin as I have the last two years worth in my craft room anyway and haven't looked at these since I put them in the basement about 18 months ago. So they're going away. But the last two years are "recent" lol, and likely to stay around for another two years!
I keep a notebook in which I write whatever ideas look like keepers as I read the magazines, which pretty much makes keeping back issues unnecessary anyway.
I tear out the ideas I like for a 3 ring binder, then I give the magazines to my kids' school. The teachers love them because they don't use have advertising for cigaretts and other more "adult" products so they don't have to censor the magazines before they give them to the kids to cut up for projects.
Why don't you use your old magazines to try the Faux Cloissone technique? There was a challenge for it just a couple of weeks ago: Forums at Splitcoaststampers
I usually cut out the pages I want to keep with techniques or for inspiration. I file them in one of those accordion-type files, so there's a section for paper techniques, stamping, shrink plastic, punches, cards to be inspired by and so on.
The rest go in the recycling bin, I was wondering would they be useful for the faux cloisonn� but I'm not sure that the patches of colour are big enough for me.
If there are any I haven't torn anything out of, they go to someone else or to a charity shop.
The company I work for bought 3 subscriptions for Christmas, so I get Creating Keepsakes, Paper crafts and a scrapbook magazine. I dont read any of them so Im trying to figure out what to do with them.
The company I work for bought 3 subscriptions for Christmas, so I get Creating Keepsakes, Paper crafts and a scrapbook magazine. I dont read any of them so Im trying to figure out what to do with them.
I am down to one magazine that I buy each month and thumb through many more at the bookstores. I mark that pages to use/CASE right away then save the magazine for about two years. If I haven't looked at it again in that amount of time, I never will. So out it goes. Crafting magazines seem like gold when they are new, but when time and storages space are limited, they eventually return to their status of recyclable paper.
Mary Beth
I moved about 6 months ago and knew I had to do something with my huge stack (mostly Creating Keepsakes). Each day I took a few to work and went thru all of them ripping out what I absolutely loved, then threw the rest out. By the time I moved, I still had a stack and tossed them. I figured with the internet these days, I can find tons of ideas. Now I have a nice stack that I have to get into a binder! At least the stack is much, much smaller than the stack of magazines!!! lol
for a while i would tear out what i liked and tossed the rest, now i just read and toss, unless it's really good and then I just keep it for a bit. I never really worked out a good system I never thought of selling them, but I have given some away.
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Our small public library has an ongoing used book and magazine sale, and the profits enable us to pay for magazine subscriptions. I'm told that craft magazines are the most popular item, so you might call your local library and inquire as to whether they do something similar. With the coming cutbacks in library funding, every little bit will help!
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I usually cut out the pages I want to keep with techniques or for inspiration. I file them in one of those accordion-type files, so there's a section for paper techniques, stamping, shrink plastic, punches, cards to be inspired by and so on.
Well, that's a fabulous idea! I use accordion folders for so many things and never thought about using them for this. Thanks!
I put take the pages that I think I will use out of the books and put them in a 3-ring binder. When I print off inspirational pages from SCS I also put them in this same binder. I have dividers for each type and find this works well for me.
Funny that this thread should be posted. I had been saving/hoarding my craft magazines for years- even bought fancy binders to hold this. This weekend as I was cleaning/re-organizing my craft room I realized that i NEVER go back and look at them. Therefore, they went into the recycling box for curbiste pickup this morning!
If there is something I really love, I tear it out and keep a folder of ideas, otherwise, I offer them to friends but if no one wants them, into my recycle bin they go! I only keep a current years worth of mags! I recently discontinued all my subs to my scrapbooking mags too. I find that I get just as much inspo by the groups and boards I frequent and it's cheaper! LOL gives me more $$$ for scrappy and stampy stuff!!
I gave mine to my mom. She'll look through them then take them to her local library. Her library has a box of used magazines - you can take as many as you leave, so it's always being "refreshed". So I'm submitting another vote for the "call your local library" idea.
A couple other suggestions for those of you who decide you don't want them (especially if you can't recycle them easily but even if you can):
Most areas have a FreeCycle group (www.freecycle.org will help you find yours) and this is something that would fly right off the list I participate on. If you want to sell them, there are cheapcycle groups in some locales.
When my mom was in the hospital last year, there were magazines in the waiting room from 2004!!! This happened to be the ICU waiting room and you can imagine how many hours we spent in there. I think you could likely walk into any hospital waiting area and drop them off there (take your address off if it is on there). They likely wouldn't be there very long unfortunately (thus the money magazine from 2004) but might brighten someone's very difficult day for a bit. A little RAK!
A couple other suggestions for those of you who decide you don't want them (especially if you can't recycle them easily but even if you can):
Most areas have a FreeCycle group (www.freecycle.org will help you find yours) and this is something that would fly right off the list I participate on. If you want to sell them, there are cheapcycle groups in some locales.
When my mom was in the hospital last year, there were magazines in the waiting room from 2004!!! This happened to be the ICU waiting room and you can imagine how many hours we spent in there. I think you could likely walk into any hospital waiting area and drop them off there (take your address off if it is on there). They likely wouldn't be there very long unfortunately (thus the money magazine from 2004) but might brighten someone's very difficult day for a bit. A little RAK!
Peg
These are great ideas - I know I've freecycled several boxes worth, and they were all snapped up within minutes. You caould also see if there are any girl scout troops in your area that might be interested; I know a friend of mine was just tracking some down for her daughter (and I was definitely able to help :mrgreen: )
I donate my old craft magazines to our local library........ I usually don't cut mine up. The library is always happy to get donations. I give them the romance books that I sometimes buy. After I have read them once I'm done.
Each year in January I go through my mags and out of date catalogs and cut out the "keepers". I file the pictures in my stamp journal which is organized in 3-ring binders by category (birthday, flowers, holidays). We pass our magazines around to the other members in our stamp group. I only keep 1 year of mags unless the entire edition is special.
Every few months I will go through and clip the ideas that I know I will use. Then I donate them to the art teacher at my school. She loves them and uses them for projects all of the time.
I used to tear out pictures/articles that I thought I'd want to refer back to and then chuck the rest of the magazine in the recycling bin. Then I realized that I had this huge binder of "ideas" that I never, ever looked at so I stopped doing that. Early last year I realized I just wasn't getting anything from the mags anymore so I stopped buying 'em. Oh, I'll flip through them at the store to see if I "need" to buy it, but so far I haven't bought one in about a year. It's a big relief not to have those piles of magazines anymore.
Like a lot of you ladies I have reduced the number of subsciptions for craft mags,now I keep three years of mags.Before I pass the old ones on to the craft club or to the charity shops I photocopy any article I want to keep and store thm in a binder. There is so much inspiration from sites like SCS and it is
always up to date
Oh.....please don't throw them away. There are lots of us here on splitcoast who would love to have them. Even if you give them away for free.....just have the person who receives them pay for shipping.
Just the other day there was a post for some craft magazines for free. It was so nice of her to post them and she's sending them to me...I'm so very excited to receive them. So, please don't throw them away...there are so many of us here who would love to look at them for some new inspiration.
The company I work for bought 3 subscriptions for Christmas, so I get Creating Keepsakes, Paper crafts and a scrapbook magazine. I dont read any of them so Im trying to figure out what to do with them.
Our local hospital has a place to donate magazines, maybe yours does too. Or take them with you and ack like a "magazine fairy" and leave them in waiting rooms that you find your self in. Or you could find some one who would apprecate them and send a change of address to the magasine and have it sent to them. Or perhaps the company that makes the magazine publishes other mags and you could have the subscription transfered to another publication that you would enjoy.
What do you do with your craft magazines ??
