I have torn out the pages that contain the patterns I want, and the magazine is actually in the trash can. It's time to cull the magazines. They take up too much room. This is the first one I've trashed. Oh, the trepidation . . . .
Might have to get some chocolate to get through this!
That's scary. But if you can do it, then I could maybe do it, too?
joan
HOWDY!
What? No recycling bins? That's how I dealt w/ the magazine mountain; a few are left at the doc's office or in the mammo x-ray room.
Around here re-selling quilt magazines is like cloning dogs: there's no shortage so why bother?
Chocolate--yes, definitely, you need to keep up your stamina. ;->
(Chocolate bunnies are very comforting.)
R/Sandy--every bit of fresh paper get recycled; shredded paper goes into the compost pile, so far the earthworms have not stolen my i.d.
OMG you didn't! Say it aint so....... The horror, the humanity! = ^O
Actually I need to go through all my old magazines as well. But I don't toss any out. I bring them to the Clinic with me so the patients have something to read while waiting. There are never enough mags there for the people to look at. I even take the old Reader's Digests and ARPS mags.
Coffee is less fattening. ;^)
I seldom save an entire magazine. I just don't have room for them. I tear out what I want, enter it on my computer, and put it in the appropriate pattern notebook. If I don't want anything in the magazine, I take it to quilting, and give it away. If no one there wants it, then it is just left there for the seniors to look at.
Sherry Starr
This one is from the National Quilting Association. Don't know that it would even be good for a doctor's office.
I'm even going to let my membership in professional organizations lapse so that I don't have to make decisions about those magazines.
If I could clone my dearly departed Lea dog I would do it in a second.
Lots of recycling done here too. I am saving wine bottles to make a bottle house.
Taria, how about asking round some of your local restaurants to see if you can have their emptys. should get you enough bottles for that house pretty darn quick. :) ask for the corks too and you could use those somewhere in the house as well. where that might be eludes my old brain at the moment but i'm sure there are other places than the usual cork message board to use corks. i'd ask them how many bottles they go thru each evening. they might not have lots of room to keep empty bottles for you for too long. finding that out could be good to see how often they could expect you to remove those emptys, could be every other day or twice a week to keep the service going.
they're all free to you and helps to recycle all those bottles and corks for the restaurants. worth ask> If I could clone my dearly departed Lea dog I would do it
Round here, magazine quality in waiting rooms is pretty high, they are mostly current mags, things like national geographic, newsweek, people, family circle, basically covers a good range of interests, but I've never seen a quilt or other craft magazine, I'd appreciate that.
Anne
The clinic where I go no longer subs to magazines for the waiting room. The people take them as soon as they arrive.
I just left two quilt mags at my hairdressers...and was shocked when I realized I'd paid 6.99 each for them ! I do try to be careful but there must have been something in them that caught my eye when I bought them -- but I got rid of them without tearing a thing out !...Mary
I do this all the time. I just don't have the space to store many magazines. I collect them until I run out of room. Then I go through them and keep what I want from each one and then recycle or rehome them.
I do this all the time - tear out the pics and patterns I like and throw the rest away. Need room for fabric!
I use EQ to copy the quilts (no copyright problems - I use the notecard attached to each quilt to credit the magazine and designer if I copy it verbatim) and then I throw away the torn out pages too!
Musicmaker
Well I hope the next person enjoys them. If I ever get the time I have a good size stack here to go through. I just went through all my old templates and other quilty stuff that's been in storage in my husband's office for years. Most of the templates are from the Georgia Bonesteel book I learned to quilt from back in the early 80s. The rest are my own.
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