Community Chat

[AnikaBrodie]

Our local public library has a "Free Magazine Bin" which anyone can take from and keep. Our current magazines are either donated to the library, or in some cases recycled depending on the age of the magazine.

[irishmama5]

I no longer buy magazines I download recipes etc.

[sunshine45]

i have A LOT of magazine subscriptions now because they are so inexpensive. i save some of the nicer ones for decoration on coffee tables and etageres and rotate them. i take some in to work for customers to read and/or take. i take one or two with me to appointments and if i finish them then i leave them there. i pass some along to neighbors and friends. if there is anything left i recycle.

[worldglobetrotter]

I keep my Diabetes Forecast (for reference since I am diabetic) and a lot of the France magazines (future travel plans?). I don't keep the rest. I live in an apartment complex, and I usually leave the magazines in the mail room and someone takes them straight away. Or, I'll take them to work and leave them in the break room.

[gazelle77]

I never buy magazines... I only get subscriptions when offered for free. I look through them in 10 minutes usually and then recycle them. That is why I would NEVER pay money for them.

[Danky]

I toss mine after tearing out whatever I want to follow up on or save.......HOWEVER, because I want to stay a HAPPY HOUSEWIVE and because I acknowledge that we are equal inhabitants of OUR home, he decides what to do with HIS stuff...I am not his mother.

[beckyb1012]

There are 8 offices on my floor and most of us have been here since the 1990's and we know each other well. So we generally pass along magazines after we finish and they make the rounds that way. These our personal magazines we do not dog ear and wrinkle them and then put the magazines out for the clients to look at.

[RedTop]

I keep my Southern Living and Taste of Home magazines for awhile, but all others are given to my Mom to read, or donated to the VA for their waiting rooms.

[DoneTryin]

On 8/13/2014 Ziali said:

I used to save them but then I realized I never go back to read old copies so now I toss them after I read them because they take up entirely too much room and they can also be a fire hazard.

Same here! If there's anything I want to save, I just make a copy or scan it directly to the computer.

[LilacTree]

I don't get magazines (except Consumer Reports), but for some reason I still get tons of catalogs. I don't know why because I don't order from them anymore and when I moved, I checked off not to forward catalogs.

However, since I do, I leave them on the downstairs counter in the lobby for others to look at, which they seem to enjoy.