EHow tells you how.
You love to find them in your mailbox and can’t wait to find time to yourself to read them. There are myriad to choose from in every genre and you hate to throw them away and lose all that valuable information. You’re going to have to learn how to organize all of your magazines.
First, determine which magazines you want to continue. You haven’t enjoyed every magazine you subscribe to as much as you originally thought. When renewal time comes around, think about how much of your time you actually spent reading them, and if the information contained therein was valuable to you. Begin your organization process by weeding out those magazines you haven’t really read.
Second, utilize baskets for your monthly reading. As magazines come in the mail, store them in wicker baskets until you’re ready to read them. If you put them all in one place, you have the month’s current reading at your fingertips and can easily move the magazines from room to room.
Third, buy yourself a binder and get ripping. Just because there are a few articles in every issue that you’d like to keep, doesn’t mean you have to store the whole magazine. Go to an office-supply store and purchase any size three-ring binder that works for you, tear out those pages that interest you and file them away for future reference. You can either keep all of your articles in one binder separated by dividers and labeled, or keep a smaller binder for each category and label the binders.
Fourth, keep your magazines current. Once you’ve gone through all the old issues, you’re ready to begin fresh. Promise yourself that you won’t let the magazines collect month after month again and that you’ll keep only that month’s issue until the new one comes in the mail. Before the new one arrives, set aside 15 minutes to take out the articles you want to keep and file them.
Fifth, pare down on the catalogs, too. Catalogs tend to accumulate at least as much as magazines. People usually keep them with the intention of going back to them later to buy gifts for relatives and friends. Make a separate binder for intended purchases, but be sure to keep the cover page with the page on which the item appears. The cover pages of catalogs have your customer number that you need for Internet and phone purchases.
Sixth, look for binders and files for whole issues. With some magazines, you want to keep the whole issue rather than tear out specific pages–for example, specialty magazines that assist you with your career or hobbies. In this case, you can find magazine storage binders that hold the magazine in place with rods or posts that let you flip through the pages. There are also upright file magazine holders that come in cardboard, plastic or metal that you can keep on a bookshelf with labels to identify their contents.