[John F. Smith]

how long do you save your magazines, and what do you do with the ones you want to hang on to?

[phantomdragonz]

you need a life

[Mrs. D4n.]

I save mine until you decide to create another pointless thread, which is about 5 minutes, and then I roll them up and bonk you over the head with them.

[demograph68]

I don't own any magazines. Not even XXX. (Thanx U internet!)

[killer_735]

Till they start falling off the back of the toilet tank.

[d4nth3m4n]

ill hold onto national geographic forever... past that though, its anybodys guess.

[badidea]

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
ill hold onto national geographic forever... past that though, its anybodys guess.

second that...except that it's GEO, a german magazine similar to NG...have it since 14 years now...

[JLFanboy]

I used to save pretty much anything. I'd pretty much save all my issues of Rolling Stone, Wired, Wizard, and any issue of Time or other weekly that had an article or picture that I wanted to save.

Lately though, I've actually been going through all those old magazines, realizing how friggin' stupid I was being. Went through six years worth of Wireds: kept about 7 issues. Same with the others. The only ones I'd keep were the bigger issues that had things I know I'd read again. As for the magazines with only one article or pic, I've been scanning those. Even at a high resolution they've all been able to fit on to one DVD.

So I'm happy now. Basically gone from three or four full shelves of magazines to about half a shelf, and even that's shrinking.

Oh, and the best magazine that I'll keep every issue of: Cinefex.

[rozwado1]

Never. I scan and archive all of my issues of Black Tail, then put the originals in those comic book plastic things for storage.

[wdlove]

Like others the National Geographic that I own plan to keep forever. Some of the other magazines a year or two.

[Powaqqatsi]

Originally posted by badidea:
second that...except that it's GEO, a german magazine similar to NG...have it since 14 years now...

Isn't GEO french ? I'm used to reading the French GEO anyway.

I'll also hold on to my National Geographics, I inherited a bunch of them. And I even have Nat Geos from the 60ies ! With the moon landing. I've got a collection from the 60ies to now the latest one about Fat . I also hold on to my Car magazines, AutoGids, L'automobile, Auto Motor und Sport and Car (and a few other I buy from time to time). 4 Languages, 4 magazines.

[turtle777]

between 0 and 100 years...

-t

[Drakino]

I keep them all for about a year, then will keep the ones I know I'll enjoy uncovering years down the road. Like the Duke Nukem Forever PC Gamer fron 1997, the PC World with the look at an early Windows 95 beta, and so on. Wired, I came across one from 1997 spelling the doom of Apple. For the most part, I agreed with it, but thankfully Jobs came back and turned things around.

[Krypton]

Originally posted by John F. Smith:
how long do you save your magazines, and what do you do with the ones you want to hang on to?

I kept one issue of MacFormat because it had something I contributed in it, which although lame, was enough for me to want to cherish it

[storer]

i keep them until they fall apart after hours of reading over and over.... so about 4-5 years

[gorickey]

Depends if Rickey is in the magazine or not...