Do you have stacks of old magazines piled up in your house? Each month and each year the pile just gets taller and taller, but you do not exactly know what to do with them so you just leave them in a corner of your home, in the attic, basement, garage or any other storage place in the house. Others would throw them away, but that’s just not a great thing to do. We can reuse old magazines, and even help save the environment from recycling them instead of throwing them as garbage.
If you know friends who have private offices, like family dentists, doctors, therapists and the like, why not give them some of your copies for their visitors to read while waiting for their turn. Give others to hospitals, schools, shelters and places where magazines can be read and reused. You can also use the magazine pages as stuffing in gift boxes or in your pet’s litter box. Just shred the pages and add them in to your gift boxes or your dog’s little corner. Also, use magazines for your children’s projects, for making collages and scrapbooks, for source of pictures that can be used in making posters and picture cards for your school-age children. I usually use magazine pages as cover for my notebooks and some of my books when I was still studying, and take pictures from them to add creativity to my reaction and reflection papers my teacher used to ask us to do, which he wanted done with a sense of personal touch and creativeness. Also as a teacher now, we tend to be resourceful by constructing our own materials like alphabet books and phonics cards, which we get pictures from old magazines. We use them even in greeting cards and as materials in the art classes of our special pupils.
There are many things we could do to our old magazines, best way is to reuse and recycle them actively, which not only activates our creativeness and resourcefulness, but helps too in our environment. (: