Not gardening, no.

You know how you buy a magazine for one article, and then you put it away, and hang on to the dratted mag just for that article? I am cleaning out, want to dump the mags, but want to save the articles that I bought them for.

Does anybody have any ideas? Pasting them onto recycled A4? Putting straight into plastic sleeves in display folder / archlever?

Dropping into a cardboard expander file?

Wot? Wot? Wot?

have you got access to a scanner? Scan them and save them digitally.

Otherwise in plastic sleeves in a ring binder, or slipped into a folder of sorts.

Dinetta said:

Not gardening, no.

You know how you buy a magazine for one article, and then you put it away, and hang on to the dratted mag just for that article? I am cleaning out, want to dump the mags, but want to save the articles that I bought them for.

Does anybody have any ideas? Pasting them onto recycled A4? Putting straight into plastic sleeves in display folder / archlever?

Dropping into a cardboard expander file?

Wot? Wot? Wot?

I would go for the plastic sleeves in an archlever file. This is my plan, too – but it will be ages before I get around to it :D

bluegreen said:

have you got access to a scanner? Scan them and save them digitally.

Otherwise in plastic sleeves in a ring binder, or slipped into a folder of sorts.

Thanks BlueGreen, but I think I will pass the scanner idea…it’s an extra step that I don’t want…

bon008 said:

I would go for the plastic sleeves in an archlever file. This is my plan, too – but it will be ages before I get around to it :D

Thanks Bon, it would be a start…sometimes I think you have to start archiving things before you suddenly think “Ah! this would be the best way!”

Dang, twitchy mouse finger…

Dinetta said:

Not gardening, no.

You know how you buy a magazine for one article, and then you put it away, and hang on to the dratted mag just for that article? I am cleaning out, want to dump the mags, but want to save the articles that I bought them for.

Does anybody have any ideas? Pasting them onto recycled A4? Putting straight into plastic sleeves in display folder / archlever?

Dropping into a cardboard expander file?

Wot? Wot? Wot?

I bought a big childrens drawing pad and pasted into that.

bon008 said:

Dinetta said:

Not gardening, no.

You know how you buy a magazine for one article, and then you put it away, and hang on to the dratted mag just for that article? I am cleaning out, want to dump the mags, but want to save the articles that I bought them for.

Does anybody have any ideas? Pasting them onto recycled A4? Putting straight into plastic sleeves in display folder / archlever?

Dropping into a cardboard expander file?

Wot? Wot? Wot?

I would go for the plastic sleeves in an archlever file. This is my plan, too – but it will be ages before I get around to it :D

I’ve got about a hundred or so GA mags just waiting until we have a garage sale.

bubba louie said:

I bought a big childrens drawing pad and pasted into that.

Thanks Bubba. There’s foolscap archlevers going begging for a job at the office, I might make of with a couple, say House, Garden, Exercise, Health, and just start tearing the pages out and putting them in plastic sleeves. That way they’re out of the mags, the mags are out of the house, and I can always look forward to sorting them on a rainy day! (rotflus!!!)

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

I bought a big childrens drawing pad and pasted into that.

Thanks Bubba. There’s foolscap archlevers going begging for a job at the office, I might make of with a couple, say House, Garden, Exercise, Health, and just start tearing the pages out and putting them in plastic sleeves. That way they’re out of the mags, the mags are out of the house, and I can always look forward to sorting them on a rainy day! (rotflus!!!)

That’s my plan! I’ve received 5 free files from work, and I planned definitely for a gardening one.. and then I thought rather than having one big file in the filing cabinet for instruction manuals, I would have one little file per room – so all the kitchen related ones live in the kitchen, and so forth.

But these are all pie in the sky plans for after we move :)

bon008 said:

.. and then I thought rather than having one big file in the filing cabinet for instruction manuals, I would have one little file per room – so all the kitchen related ones live in the kitchen, and so forth.

Eggsellent idea! Brainwave really! Makes those flaming manuals so much easier to find.

Dinetta said:

bon008 said:

.. and then I thought rather than having one big file in the filing cabinet for instruction manuals, I would have one little file per room – so all the kitchen related ones live in the kitchen, and so forth.

Eggsellent idea! Brainwave really! Makes those flaming manuals so much easier to find.

Yeh, I’m sick of having to flick through a massive collection whenever I need one. We also have a bunch of manuals for things that we don’t even own any more! So they need a cull in any case.

If you can stomach the twee enthusiasm, this blog sometimes has some good tips: http://iheartorganizing.blogspot.com/

It’s very.. aesthetically focused, but there are still good, practical hints along the way.