What to do with old magazines (it's not recycling)
There's no reason to feel green guilt over that big stack of magazines on the coffee table. Give them a second life by putting them in the hands of others.
GLOSSY GIFTS: Pass your mags along to others to enjoy. (Photo: orphanjones/Flickr) 
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Pass them along to friends and family. This is the simplest way of putting magazines back into circulation.
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Host a monthly readers' exchange. Invite some people over for coffee — you can even advertise the event to broaden your circle. Everyone brings their used books and magazines, and goes home with something new.
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Donate magazines to groups and organizations which will use them. Anyplace that has a waiting room will usually be grateful to receive fresh reading material — doctors' offices, hospitals and automobile service departments. Even better: arrange regular magazine deliveries to nursing homes and women's shelters.
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Just a note--if you have magazines to share or are interested in receiving them--leave a "throwaway" email address here rather than sharing name and address on a public forum. This is for your safety.
Better yet--look to donate them in your local area or use freecycle or craigslist in your area and set up a local meeting spot away from your home.
I have about 20 copies of Real Simple from 2010 and 2011 - would be happy to pass them along or donate them to anyone that wants. I am in the DC area, but would be willing to ship them also.
I have a ton of fashion/makeup type magazines just laying around. I get them monthly and store them in a drawer after reading and don't want to just waste them. I'd like to donate them to anyone interested? Please let me know if you are interested and want to know the three magazine names i have as i fear putting the specific names here is prohibited? sdogz4life@yahoo.com Thank u!
I would love them...do you still have them and where do you live. I live in CT
If anyone has any magazines please facebook or email me. I put them to great use in art projects with my daughter to making cool things for the house. I love making recycled art and would be more than happy to make you some in return for your magazines! Thanks so much!
Hey stacey r u in NYC. I have a ton of them. Would really like to get rid of a few.
i have a bunch but i would like to reuse them can you give me some of the craft ideas you do?
Hi Stacy,
I am in the process of cleaning and have a bunch of old magazines. Are you still interested? Where are you located?
Michelle
Stacy Burton I have about 10 boxes of magazines. Eight of them are the size of flat rate boxes and the other two are medium size brown boxes. Do you have a place for me to drop them off. Please contact me if so.
Any one need old magazines? I have some I will donate. If so reply. I will contact you. Thank you.
I'm trying to surprise my wife with an art project she's working on... She's been searching for cheap magazines all around town this week without much luck. She's needing around 800 magazines, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
She'll be posting the results of this project on her blog www.culturedblog.com, and I'm sure you'll get a shout out :)
Please contact me at jakeleb@gmail.com if you are able to share any magazines with us. We can take care of shipping.... More
Jake -- Do you still need magazines? I have a bunch of Good Housekeepings, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Woman's World, et cetera. I live in Montgomery County in Maryland. I'm a senior citizne, so I can't absorb the cost of shipping them, sorry to say. Let me know what you think. Thanks~!
Hi . I have actually been looking for some old magazines.
I want to work on a decoupage project at home
and am in need of some old magazines for
the project.
If you can please send me an email
I would greatly appreciate it !
I would like to come over to see them
and can possibly pick them up right away
if they are in good condition ?
Thank you very much ,
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You can send "Current magazines-sports, hunting, car, nursing, medical, healthcare." via http://www.landstuhlhospitalcareproject.org/HowToHelp.htm
This is under their list of items to support military hospitals in the Middle East at the bottom of the page. (current through 8/11)
You can find other troop donation organizations here:.... More
I have horse magazines that I would love to share with someone or a group.
I am looking for used art magazines. I use these for inspiration for painting. Anybody cleaning out. I am a fine arts painter.
OMG. I use old magazines to do crafts. I have made woven purses, and boxes. I have made a door wreath from rolled pages. I have made bowls from coiled pages. Internet has tons of ideas like this.
I have taken fairly current magazines or timeless types of magazines to hospital emergency rooms in batches. Many people arrive there with nothing to read and all the magazines are gone or there is just one tattered magazine.
Recently I have been sending magazines to a nursing facility where my sister lives. My mother accidentally subscribed to a men's magazine (not THAT kind) that no one in the house was interested in. The men at the nursing facilty sure love it though.
If you.... More
I have quite a few old Knitting magazines. Is there anyone or anyplace near Bridgeport, CT that could use them?
I have the last couple of years of Smithsonian, Atlantic, Harpers, New Yorker
I would love them if you are looking for someone. I could pay for the postage.
I am collecting old magazines to send overseas to the troops.. My husband is overseas right now and he and his buddies would love to take the magazines off your hands! Please please please email me if you have any willing to donate... Thank you!
Is Angie still collecting old magazines to send overseas to the troops? I would like to donate some! JR
I have tons of old sports and car magazines (from within the past year) that I would love to donate to you for the troops! Let me know where they can be sent and I will get them in the mail. They are in new condition. I will just have to cut off or black out our shipping address.
Let me know if this sounds good.
Thanks!
Does DoD or State Dept. have a program for donating old magazines to troops worldwide or to friendly nationals? My wife and I have @ 40 years of National Review, Analog, and Fantasy & Science Fiction (also smaller numbers of some other sf mags). Prefer to give to a bona fide nonprofit or military who would enjoy them. Might deliver if within 100 miles of Wash., DC
Do you think troops would like Old National Geographic Magazines? I could just send to some soldiers from anysoldier.com
i have a lot of old magazines and get new ones weekly. do they want only the recent issues or is the old acceptable?
This is a great idea. How do I go about donating?
Is there somewhere in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area I can bring our magazines to for the troops? How do I get them to you to be sent? Sounds like they need to be sent soon - so please let us know. Thanks
I have a lot of mags to give to the troops. How do I get them to you?
have about a couple hundred
Hi,
My husband has a lot of magazines that he doesn't use. Let me know how I could donate them to you so that the troops can enjoy the reading. My husband is a reservist for the AF. Thanks for your service.
need a contact details - I have loads..
Give me an address. I will send you my good magazines.
I'm an environmental conscious person and a big fan of recycling. Currently I'm working on a recycling art project using used or old magazines that people normally thrown away or recycling them. I could buy used magazines for cheap price to do my art work, but I refuse to purchase them because it would defeat my purpose of recycle. So if anyone has excess magazines and consider throwing them away, please contact me if you would like to donate them for my art project…I would be very much.... More
plese contact me at email swtanxiety94@yahoo.com with details on donation.
please email if you live in the san diego area and have old magazines i want them for some art project
Don't forget schools! As an elementary school teacher, I was always disappointed when I would ask students to bring old magazines from home for use in art projects or social studies, health,etc.Few subscribed to interesting subject matter types. If they are appropriate, send them to schools! One year, a student's grandmother gave us a couple of year's worth of National Geographic. What a bonanza! Gardening catalogs are great too.
