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The Successful Dropout

The Successful Dropout

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what do you do with your old magazines...egm, gamepro, psm, opm, oxm, xbn, gameinformer, gmr, maxim, stuff, fhm, etc....i get each of these every month....and i personally have three stacks of magazines that are all waist high....im thinking about just saying #@!$ it and trash them....(except for the good fhm, stuff, and maxim ones)...they're taking up too much space...
 
A few years ago, I had a lot of Nintendo Power magazines... all from the N64 days when I got a subscription as a gift. A big stack under my bed. I decided to throw them all out because I didn't have any room for them. I regret it now, especially since I just got an N64 last month and it would be fun to read about the N64 games I own and the games I'm planning to own.

But now I have a few Game Informer mags from a year or so back and those aren't going anywhere. I also have a little stack of Playboys I'm not letting go of as well. I'll likely subscribe to both of those magazines in the future. I have a couple Maxims and Gamestop/EB catalogs as well, and I'll probably throw those out (might offer the catalogs for trade, but I doubt anyone would want them).
 
I get at last count about 40-50 magazines a month. Some of them I have little to no interest in [Sporting News], I'll take those to work and drop them in the break room [we have ~300 people in my building, someone's got to want to read it].
I keep some mags--PSM, Playboy, FHM/Maxim/Stuff, The Week, Newsweek, some of the parenting magazines, all those I keep. Rarely of course do I reread them, but I have gone back and read old PSM's for info on games that were new then, that I just got or got interested in.
The rest I'll either give to my inlaws, if it's a topic they're interested in [Wine Enthusiast], take to the breakroom at work [Barron's, Sporting News, YM, Ladies Home Journal, Smart Money], or just chuck in the recycle bin, sometimes without reading [Potentials, New York Observer].
I went through a couple of boxes of old Sega Visions and misc mags before we moved; I debated putting them on Ebay, but it didn't seem to be worth the hassle.
They do take up a lot of room, and very rarely do I reread many of them--but I want to be able to, if I should suddenly decide to.
How do you store your magazines?
Here's what I get, off the top of my head:
Playboy, Stuff, Maxim, PSM, EGM, Gamepro, Xbox Nation, Reader's Digest, The Week, Newsweek, Ladies Home Journal, Seventeen, YM, Child, Parent, American Baby, Wine Enthusiast, Cruise Travel, Charisma, Sporting News, Psychology Today, TV Guide, Potentials, Budget Living, Family Fun, Forbes, Smart Money, New York Observer, Nascar Thunder, Redbook, PC Photo, and probably about 8-10 others I can't think of right now.
 
Of the game magazine i get i usually cut out the strategy guie and code sections, tape them together and tss the magazine out. I find this is especially effective with psm because just about half the mag is ads anyway (hence why its costs $1 a month) but they do have good strategy sections.
 
I get something like 30+ mags a month (mostly trade journals). The only mags I keep are Maxim and Game Informer(the only reason I'd want an old game magazine is for looking at info on a game I missed, GI seems to do a fine job on most all of the console games)
 
[quote name='hutno']Of the game magazine i get i usually cut out the strategy guie and code sections, tape them together and tss the magazine out. I find this is especially effective with psm because just about half the mag is ads anyway (hence why its costs $1 a month) but they do have good strategy sections.[/quote]

that's a good idea. i think i'll do that as well. so far, i've kept all the old gaming magazines b/c of their strategy guides, tips and for some of the ads/art work. all other magazines usually get tossed into the recycling bin.
 
I had the same dilemma and it hurts to throw them away. My experience is that not every Mag is worth keeping unless you are a serious collector of a certain Mag. I would say keep some that hold something special to you, like an article, walkthrough etc. Remember you can always go to IGN and get the same info when you need it instead of holding on to it for years. It is a tough choice. Good luck!!!
 
The only magazines I've been keeping are Maximum PC, Play, Time, Scientific American, and FHM/Maxim/Stuff.
 
ive started moving all my subscriptions to digital. egm, cgw, pc mag all digital now. the rest i get (almost all free) i just dump in the recycle bin once a month, im sure the garbage man has quite a magazine collection by now.
 
I keep getting invites to subscribe to the 'Digital Version' of the magazines. I'm not a big fan of those yet. I agree, for archival purposes it's awesome--collect a years worth, then burn them into a 12 cent CDR. But I just haven't found a reader I've enjoyed using yet.
 
I just bought a really big bookshelf and devoted it entirely to my videogame mags. I can't throw them away. Every so often i like to look back at old mags and see what i used to be looking forward to.
 
Do you have a Half-Price Books in your area? See if they'll buy what you can't store.Or any used book store that sells used magazines. The rest? ... recycle, recycle, recycle.
 
I got a couple boxes of pretty damn old Nintendo Powers (earlier I could find last I checked was #2) and a box of old PSMs.

Other than that I just throw my EGM, CGW, Gamepro and Nintendo Power away. Id say at least 75% of the time I dont even open Nintendo Power, just throw it away. Only got it for Zelda Collectors edition.
 
Actually, according to Penn and Teller, recycling, especially paper, is, well b*llsh*t.
If the mags aren't too ancient, try donating them to a local library--my library has a free magazine swap section that I have used both to give and take in the past.
Failing that, maybe take them to a thrift store kind of place. We've got a huge one near us, and they take almost anything, they resell mags for like a dime. Plus, by doing that, you can get a tax writeoff.
I usually don't tear apart magazines; if I'm interested in code or strategy, I'll go to Gamefaqs.
 
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