How Many Magazines?

After looking at 3 large cardboard boxes of magazines in a garage, I started thinking about how many you should keep. To be realistic, you need to consider how many minutes or hours in a day you can devote to reading. Most of us have very little so we have to decide what is the most important thing for us during that time.

Since 70%-80% of magazine pages contain advertisements, the best use of time would be flip through the magazine quickly and to tear out any articles or pictures you want to keep and store those in a folder. Editors will admit they recycle article ideas every 2-3 years with just an update, so keeping magazines longer than that is repetitive. In addition, most information is available on the Internet and it will not clutter your space assuming you will refrain from printing everything.

To set yourself free from the magazine clutter, do not continue your present subscriptions no matter how good the offer. Tear out any articles you must keep and donate the rest to your local doctor's office, beauty shop, emergency care facility or other waiting rooms. If you have ever spent considerable time in those, you know they need them.