Posted by CarolAnn on February 5, 2000, at 9:42:31
In reply to Re: a different kind of hoarding..., posted by torchgrl on February 4, 2000, at 22:33:09
I am a magazine fanatic! I get quite a few monthly and also buy interesting looking ones in stores. I have always had the same problem of having stacks of them from months and months ago lying around, because I either thought their was or knew their was something in them that I wanted to save. Finally, in a rare instance of extreme clutter clearance, I not only got rid of them all(donated them to the library), but came up with a plan to keep them from piling up. Here it is:
I made a rule that when I pick up a new magazine, as I read it, I immediately tear out any article, recipe, ect. that I think I want to keep. If I can't finish the magazine in one sitting, I mark my place, so that I will not go thru pages already read(I am quite capable of forgetting I've read something and wasting time on it.). Anyway, the pages I tear out go in a file, and the finished magazine immediately goes in a designated "donate to library bag", never to be picked up again. About every other month I go thru the file of magazine clippings, and anything that has not been used or had an actual planned time of use, is thrown away. This might all sound like a lot of trouble, but it's really not. I have found that a lot of things that I might have saved a magazine for, become less compelling, if I start to decide whether or not to actually tear the page out. Well, it works for me, and I like not having whole magazines to make "get rid of or keep" decisions about. Hope some of you find this helpful.CarolAnn
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