52 weeks of Organizing – More and More Magazines

The problem with magazines is they keep coming and coming.

I also don’t seem to have time to read them anymore.  I think I spend too much time blogging and reading blogs and doing birth stuff to read my magazines.

We don’t even get that many.

Here is where I put them when they come in the mail.  Usually I don’t even read or browse before I put them here.

Then I rarely look at them again.

I also have magazines in the bathrooms and some magazine holders on the shelves below this basket.

Here are all the magazines – organized into piles.

We also get National Geographic and Popular Science, but those tend to be read and in the boys rooms.

They read their church magazines when they come and after they read them I put them in the basket.

I got rid of 2 bags worth of magazines.  I saved a years worth of Church magazines and have a pile of Money and Backpacking magazines for Rob to go through.  I’ll let you know how that goes.

I found this in the downstairs magazine rack.

Yes that is a People Magazine from September 11th.  It is almost 10 years old.  I can’t get rid of it.  It belongs in my magazine rack, because every time I go through my magazines I remember.  (I honestly remember a lot more then that.) But there is something that makes me keep it.  A little strange I guess. But it is one of my ways of never forgetting.

At the end of the organizing I had this –

The 2 piles in the front are for Rob.  The rack on the left is for the bathroom.  You can see how nice and empty the basket is and I even have an empty magazine holder for Rob to put the ones he saves in.  I am hoping he will narrow it down to that space.