Old magazines

[John Stankus]

Don't forget retirement homes and senior centers sometimes like to get a library of magazines.

[Matt Schroeder]

My dentist could use some updating of his office magazines. 1965 Nat'l Geo would be newer than some of what is there...

[Bruce Page]

I inherited boxes of them from my FIL before he passed. I held on to them for several years and finally threw them in the recycle bin. For sentimental reasons I hated to do that but I needed the space. I recycle all of my current subscriptions to a couple of friends.

[Dave Lehnert]

In the same boat right now.
My collection goes back to around the late 1980's.
I have convinced myself that if I needed to look something up I would not be able to find them quick if at all anyway. So I dont need them,
I have let all my Woodworking mags run out and just this month now subscribe to Popular Woodworking digital edition on my Amazon Kindle Fire. I like it so far because the magazines (I think) are kept forever on the cloud . If I need to find a magazine it will be as easy as going to my Amazon account and download it.
I have two other non-woodworking digital magazines I subscribe to for some time now and every back issue I purchased is always available to me.
Time Magazine digital lets you go back and read any (Or most) back issues as long as you are a subscriber. Just the other day I heard about a magazine story I was interested in from 1997 Time Magazine and I was able to find and read it in just minutes.

[Rick Potter]

I was afraid I would get answers like this. I guess it's nice to know I am not alone. I will try CL, and then I will continue to give some to friends who would appreciate them, and the rest to Goodwill.

Thanks guys.

[Wayne Lovell]

If there is a Half Price bookstore (this is the actual name of the chain not just a generic description of used bookstores) in your area you might call them, most of them have a used magazine section but I have not noticed woodworking magazines. If not call some of the recycling places that buy paper, a long time ago we had a "coffee fund" at the company I worked for they used to ask people to bring their old news papers etc. and would take them to a place near us and sell them. For a while they got pretty good money for them and then the market got glutted and they almost had to beg them to take them the last time they took any. I repeat that this was a long long time ago and I have no idea what the current market is on used paper.

[Brian Henderson]

I'm in the middle of packing for a move and I had the same problem. Tons of magazines that I really don't want to take with me. I haven't looked at them in years. I haven't even thought about them in years. I just dumped them all in the recycling bin. They aren't worth anything, nobody wants them, let them be recycled.

[Rick Potter]

Well, I just took over 200 Workbench magazines to the local Habitat ReStore. They said they were glad to get them. I plan to go back in a week or so, and see if they sold. If so, I will start with the Pop Mech, and Pop Sci collection.