Facebook. Hoarding. Selling and Depression.

[marlinspike]

Quickly scan through, keep the few ones that have big articles on the car(s) you have, or cars you really love, then recycle the rest. If there's no takers on the recycle group, bite the bullet and put them in the paper recycling bin.

There's very little in car magazines that can't be found online if you really need it.

I rarely buy it now but I have a pile of about 15 old Practical Classics I need to go through myself. It does seem a waste just paper recycling but trying to rehome them is time and energy consuming. It just won't happen and the space they consume in your house and your head is better used for other things. Bottom line: you can't keep everything.

 

[droopsnoot]

He hasn't said what magazines they are?

So far I'm just doing car magazines - there's a mixture of C&SC, Practical Classics, Fast Lane, Evo, Car Mechanics, and a load more. After this, we have railway magazines, music-related stuff, no "special interest" though. There's a load of model railway magazines that I acquired recently, haven't read, haven't time to read, and in theory should go first because I don't have any vague memory that somewhere there's an article I really want to keep - I won't miss anything I haven't read.

Quickly scan through, keep the few ones that have big articles on the car(s) you have, or cars you really love, then recycle the rest. If there's no takers on the recycle group, bite the bullet and put them in the paper recycling bin.

There's very little in car magazines that can't be found online if you really need it.

I rarely buy it now but I have a pile of about 15 old Practical Classics I need to go through myself. It does seem a waste just paper recycling but trying to rehome them is time and energy consuming. It just won't happen and the space they consume in your house and your head is better used for other things. Bottom line: you can't keep everything.

Now, the problem is that a bit ago I had an idea. I thought I'd do a web site where people could put their registration in, and it would show which car magazines that car had been in, whether it's a photo, an article, or a "for sale" advert. I'd like to have that information about my cars, so probably other people would do. So in theory, that means every time I get rid of a car magazine, I need to go through it and update the database, which as you can imagine greatly adds to the time involved. It's anyone's guess whether I'll actually put the site live at any point, currently has around 5000 cars in 250 magazines.

Overthinking it, perhaps.

 

[bricol]

Magazines are like all the other junk we collect - once you notice them again, they play on your mind as needing something doing about them.

I've come to the conclusion that just clearing the crap, however I do it, as quickly and painless as possible is the best way - recycling bin, scrap yard, bin. Trying to pass them on, giving them away, or selling, just puts the pile of junk somewhere else in the way, still on your mind.

Once it's in the skip, they're gone, no stress about them anymore.

Life's too short. Clear the junk, do something you want to.

 

[bricol]

So far I'm just doing car magazines - there's a mixture of C&SC, Practical Classics, Fast Lane, Evo, Car Mechanics, and a load more. After this, we have railway magazines, music-related stuff, no "special interest" though. There's a load of model railway magazines that I acquired recently, haven't read, haven't time to read, and in theory should go first because I don't have any vague memory that somewhere there's an article I really want to keep - I won't miss anything I haven't read.



Now, the problem is that a bit ago I had an idea. I thought I'd do a web site where people could put their registration in, and it would show which car magazines that car had been in, whether it's a photo, an article, or a "for sale" advert. I'd like to have that information about my cars, so probably other people would do. So in theory, that means every time I get rid of a car magazine, I need to go through it and update the database, which as you can imagine greatly adds to the time involved. It's anyone's guess whether I'll actually put the site live at any point, currently has around 5000 cars in 250 magazines.

Overthinking it, perhaps.

Crikey - just a touch! You must have something better to do?

Only place I want to see my registration is on my car, where I last left it!

 

[atomant48]

So far I'm just doing car magazines - there's a mixture of C&SC, Practical Classics, Fast Lane, Evo, Car Mechanics, and a load more. After this, we have railway magazines, music-related stuff, no "special interest" though. There's a load of model railway magazines that I acquired recently, haven't read, haven't time to read, and in theory should go first because I don't have any vague memory that somewhere there's an article I really want to keep - I won't miss anything I haven't read.



Now, the problem is that a bit ago I had an idea. I thought I'd do a web site where people could put their registration in, and it would show which car magazines that car had been in, whether it's a photo, an article, or a "for sale" advert. I'd like to have that information about my cars, so probably other people would do. So in theory, that means every time I get rid of a car magazine, I need to go through it and update the database, which as you can imagine greatly adds to the time involved. It's anyone's guess whether I'll actually put the site live at any point, currently has around 5000 cars in 250 magazines.

Overthinking it, perhaps.

Sounds like a job for AI.

 

[droopsnoot]

Sounds like a job for AI.

AI would have to have scans of all the pages of all the magazines. There are some old obscure ones that I've thought of scanning for the web archive, but even I'm not going to be scanning 100+ copies of Practical Classics just in case someone wants them.

 

[marlinspike]

Now, the problem is that a bit ago I had an idea. I thought I'd do a web site where people could put their registration in, and it would show which car magazines that car had been in, whether it's a photo, an article, or a "for sale" advert. I'd like to have that information about my cars, so probably other people would do. So in theory, that means every time I get rid of a car magazine, I need to go through it and update the database, which as you can imagine greatly adds to the time involved. It's anyone's guess whether I'll actually put the site live at any point, currently has around 5000 cars in 250 magazines.

Overthinking it, perhaps.

That's an admirable idea but realistically the effort required to produce and maintain that website compared to the use it will get is gargantuan.

 

[marlinspike]

Trying to pass them on, giving them away, or selling, just puts the pile of junk somewhere else in the way, still on your mind.

Life's too short. Clear the junk, do something you want to.

This is it exactly. If it hasn't been disposed of, if it's still sitting there while you decide how to move it on, it's taking up head space. You need the head space more than you need the magazines.

 

[Onoff]

He hasn't said what magazines they are?

As a lad I didn't know there was more than one copy of penthouse/Mayfair only ever seemed to be the same copy passed around

A friend of mine has a stash of vintage grot hidden in his garage in an old ammo box.

What should he do with them?

 

[JEZGUZ]

Some collections turn up at a local auction, no great value £20 - £50 usually for about a dozen mags.

 

[bricol]

A friend of mine has a stash of vintage grot hidden in his garage in an old ammo box.

What should he do with them?

Google 'em and discover they have all been scanned and uploaded somewhere.

Allegedly.



Ammo box probably worth more.

Local auction does flog blue movies in VHS format . . . but I think they would draw the line at magazines, even if it is only old age causing the pages to clump together.