Throwing out or keeping old magazines

[muzzer]

Specifically The Gramophone, but equally applicable to others. They sit there for years gathering dust and then you look again and you think "Why is this so difficult?" I never read them, I'm never going to. Being a hoarder is v sad.

[Alison]

I'm chucking mine in new year.

[Petrushka]

Threw mine out years ago! I tried selling them in Gramophone but there were no takers. My advice is to get rid!

[VodkaDilc]

Mine are in boxes. I think I'll throw out the newer ones, but perhaps keep those from the 70s and 80s - when they had reviews worth reading.

[Beef Oven!]

Threw mine out when I got the internet. Still miss some of them, though

[Alison]

I'll keep a handful of favourite issues.

[Nick Armstrong]

Specifically The Gramophone, but equally applicable to others. They sit there for years gathering dust and then you look again and you think "Why is this so difficult?" I never read them, I'm never going to. Being a hoarder is v sad.

A familiar problem. I had every issue of Gramophone from 1984 to 2009 but hadn't consulted them for years due to the internet - and found a friend who had two collections with a gap in the middle in the 90s... so away they went, liberating a cupboard and making me feel much better. (Admittedly I'd have felt worse if they'd been fed into a recycling bin )

[Alain Maréchal]

Throw them out. You can always find the review you need somewhere on the internet.
Also, bear in mind that thousands of people have just had that decison made for them by floods. If you think about it, people somewhere in the world lose their homes, possessions and mementoes every day.

[EdgeleyRob]

I had around 30+ years worth of Gramophone (up to 2005).
Binned them (to make room for the ever growing cd collection),can't honestly say I miss them

[marthe]

Systematcally getting rid of old mags/auction catalogues, etc. Very hard to do because everyone in my family is hard-wired to keep printed matter of any kind just in case it might be useful. The local library takes some donations for its Friends of the Newport Library bookstore and on-going lobby sale. Glad to know that I'm not alone with this predicament.

[Petrushka]

I have a small collection of original newspapers reporting momentous events of the second half of the 20th century including the Queen's Coronation, Kennedy assassination, Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia and Man on the Moon. Wouldn't part with them for anything. Also have one or two Radio Times from the 1960s and very early 1970s.

[Richard Tarleton]

Used to give things like Birds or Wildlife to the doctors' or dentists' surgeries, but they don't seem to want them any more for fear of spreading germs. Not sure what to do with them now - recycling I suppose.

[Petrushka]

Used to give things like Birds or Wildlife to the doctors' or dentists' surgeries, but they don't seem to want them any more for fear of spreading germs. Not sure what to do with them now - recycling I suppose.

That was how I got into Gramophone believe it or not. My dentist had lots of them in the very early 1970s. My barber in the 1960s used to have the Giles cartoon books and I loved them (as I still do). It was the only reason I liked going there!

[Dave2002]

Specifically The Gramophone, but equally applicable to others. They sit there for years gathering dust and then you look again and you think "Why is this so difficult?" I never read them, I'm never going to. Being a hoarder is v sad.

Why restrict the discussion to magazines? Start throwing away books and CDs, and any equipment you hardly ever use.

Naturally this "advice" is given on the basis of "do as I say", not "do as I do"!

I recently had to eliminate a modest collection of academic journals. In the end I took a few car loads down to the tip. I haven't missed them. Nobody else was likely to want them - not even like minded academics, and most libraries are not interested nowadays. Some books are now on the hit list too.

We have books, CDs, games, and loads of other stuff. Some of these things are going to have to go in the next year or so.

[muzzer]

I also have some newspapers of historical interest and I am keeping those. DVD boxes with no leaflet - now gone. But what about hard to find books? I got a job lot of cricket books a while ago for next to nothing, all of which have good prices pencilled in the flyleaf. Hard to believe there isn't a market for them. Or a less begrudging home. Bah humbug.