What do you do with your old Magazines?

JZrarities · July 20, 2008 2:02AM

I have some sets that I often have thought about getting bound into book-form...issues from The Numismatist, Celator, etc...

Has anyone here ever done this...?

Any other ideas besides keeping them loose?

ricko · July 20, 2008 3:01AM

What is the Celator? I have not heard of that one.... I save mine until the accumulation becomes unbearable.. then I trash them. Cheers, RickO

garsmith · July 20, 2008 3:18AM

Round file

SaorAlba · July 20, 2008 3:25AM

<< <i>Round file >>

Big mistake if someone purloins through your trash, then they know you are a collector. For me, use as shred and burn.

tahoe98 · July 20, 2008 4:16AM

give them to a coin club.

give them to a collector that doesn't subscribe but would find them informative.

put them in the recycle bin (after copying any articles that you may want to save).

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tightbudget · July 20, 2008 4:17AM

<< <i>What is the Celator? I have not heard of that one.... I save mine until the accumulation becomes unbearable.. then I trash them. Cheers, RickO >>

Celator is a magazine that deals with ancients...

To answer the OP's question, they make good fuel for bonfires.

percyb · July 20, 2008 4:23AM

I save mine, but then I only buy them sparingly...every other month maybe. I like to keep them as reference sources.

nicetoning42107 · July 20, 2008 4:27AM

Some of them I save. Others I crumple up one page at a time and use as a packaging substitute for bubblewrap when I ship out packages.

GFourDriver · July 20, 2008 4:28AM

<<<Big mistake if someone purloins through your trash, then they know you are a collector. For me, use as shred and burn>>>

What, is the FBI watching you?

messydesk · July 20, 2008 4:29AM

Pass them on to someone else. My house is full of stuff as it is.

lathmach · July 20, 2008 4:48AM

I quit getting coin magazines a few years ago.
I still have 15 to 20 years worth out in my barn.
When I get my outdoor wood stove put in, they're going to be made usefull.

Ray

mrearlygold · July 20, 2008 4:50AM

We rented storage space as we ran out of space here.

Something has to change

Tvac897 · July 20, 2008 5:16AM

kill bugs.

500Bay · July 20, 2008 5:23AM

I used to keep them, but finally gave up when I moved. The only one I save now is the Celator.

I probably should remove the mailing label for security, but I don't bother usually...

bdunndchi · July 20, 2008 5:25AM

I keep them for a while. But I eventually get sick and tired of them taking up space so I get frustrated and they all go out in the trash.

PerryHall · July 20, 2008 6:20AM

Give them away after REMOVING MY NAME AND ADDRESS.

BillyKingsley · July 20, 2008 7:54AM

Guys if you have old ones you wish to get rid of I would like to aquire them. My first issue of all of the magazines I'm aware of is July 2008-I missed a lot and now regret it. Instead of clogging up some landfill please feel free to clog up my basement and storage unit

By the way I have magazines and books in my collection dating back to the 1940s(40 years before I was born)-I never throw anything out, so you would not have to worry about someone finding it in a dump somewhere. Like coins, once I buy something it stays with me!

COALPORTER · July 20, 2008 8:01AM

I took a stack of old mags to a coin club and put them on the "free stuff" table and i was surprised how fast people took them and were glad to have them.
(non had my name on them beause i buy them only at the store.
I don't want numismatic related items mailed to me.)

njcoincrank · July 20, 2008 8:31AM

First I either black out my name and address with a "sharpie", or rip off the mailing label with my address.

Then I put them in my car. When I go to the local coffee shop, doctor's office, or on any airline flight, I leave them.

Who knows, maybe it will spark the collecting bug in someone.

njcc

golfer72 · July 20, 2008 9:21AM

If you get rid of them shred them or at least dispose of them so your name/address is not on them. I had my collection stolen years ago and I am convinced they knew about me being a collector from disposing of my Coin World mag's with label intact.

Barbercoin · July 20, 2008 11:32AM

That's a good question. I've been know to keep a few too many, which takes up valuable space. However, I lighten my load once in a while. I keep only those which contain great articles. Although I don't get Coin World anymore, I used to drop them off at our library at school hoping to "snag" a YN. Of course, I cut out the mailing address, so somebody doesn't target my house.

Barbercoin

ChrisRx · July 20, 2008 11:33AM

laserart · July 21, 2008 4:55AM

We keep a stack in our outhouse and always try to use the back of the magazine first. There is always something in each magazine that didn't get read.

BECOKA · July 21, 2008 5:19AM

Pretty much just the recycle bin for me. They take up too much space after awhile.

I kept some articles that interest me though.

shirohniichan · July 21, 2008 6:29AM

<< <i>What is the Celator? I have not heard of that one.... I save mine until the accumulation becomes unbearable.. then I trash them. Cheers, RickO >>

That has been my approach.

I keep not only coin magazines, but also car magazines and "American Rifleman" issues. Sometimes I go through them to cut out specific articles that interest me.

Cladiator · July 21, 2008 6:32AM

Mine go in the magazine rack in the master bathroom. When that gets too full and I have to move some out I pass them down to Longacre's former maid. She got addicted to numismatic magazines while working at his place and reading the ones he'd leave laying around.

ttown · July 21, 2008 6:34AM

I'll save 2 or 3 issue for a year for use in latter years and use the rest to start my fireplace.

RollSearcher · July 21, 2008 6:41AM

For the current ones, I save them for a couple of years, and then go through them before the local coin shows and donate what I don't want. I'll spend a couple of hours leafing through everything and put aside things that interest me, articles I remember were really good, etc.. I'll wind up saving a handful and the rest go out the door.
Lately I've started collecting old Numismatic scrapbook magazines. I'm really enjoying them, and plan on holding on to them as a collection, but the newer stuff gets recycled every few years.

What do you do with your old Magazines?

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