Mission Magazine Organization

Mission Magazine Organization

January 15th, 2008 @ 2:34 pm by Mrs. Bee

I subscribe to a lot of magazines, and for years I’ve been cutting out pages and organizing them according to title, topic and year. While I would have liked to save entire issues, organizing individual pages by topic made it easier to go back and find specific things when I was looking for them.

But when it came to my beloved issues of Martha Stewart or Domino Magazine, I was cutting out at least half the pages of the magazine. Still, I felt that was more efficient than wading through entire magazines full of ads.

Then the other night in beetv chat, a future bee-to-bee shared her trick - she cuts out all the ads and leaves the content in the original magazine binding! Why didn’t I think of that?! I tried this for the first time last night with the latest issue of Martha Stewart Living. I love that I’ve saved only what I want to save in its original form, and of course the best part - no ads!

These are two of my favorite ideas from this month’s issue of MS Living. The felt fortune cookies and the Chinese lantern vase cover are great, easy and affordable diy ideas for your Asian inspired wedding!

Planning a wedding can turn you into a magazine junkie (I was certainly guilty of it!). So how do you organize all your magazines?

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24 Responses to “Mission Magazine Organization”

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lisa

If you cut out the ads but leave the binding isnt it still as thick on your book shelf taking up room?

1/15/08 @ 2:37 pm (reply)

Bee

Mrs. Bee (message) 3,252 posts, Sugar bee

yup it does take up more space, but i only do it with 2 of the 10+ subsriptions I have. everything else i still just cut out the interesting pages.

1/15/08 @ 2:39 pm (reply)

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missshortcake (message) 39 posts, Newbee

I’m glad my tip worked out, bee!
Oh, and Lisa, because mags aren’t usually bound hardcover-style with stiff spines, they DO get smaller, width wise, when you take out the extraneous fluff!

oh, and bee, did you notice with you lates MSW that the pages ripped out cleanly? Maybe it was just mine, but it was such a pleasant surprise to have them “pop’ out so easily!

1/15/08 @ 2:41 pm (reply)

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missshortcake (message) 39 posts, Newbee

*with your

1/15/08 @ 2:41 pm (reply)

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Emily

I just started cutting out pages and scanning them, saving them in folders on my external harddrive. That way, the desk organization articles and hairdo tips aren’t mixed together. It’s too hard for me to remember what issue it was in.

The only problem is having the discipline to scan when my to-scan file gets huge.

1/15/08 @ 2:54 pm (reply)

Bee

BIL Bee (message) 45 posts, Newbee

Wow, you’ve become a popup blocker.

Have you seen the iSlice?

1/15/08 @ 2:59 pm (reply)

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julieulie (message) 266 posts, Helper bee

Emily, I LOVE that idea. I never think to actually USE my scanner. Time to put it to work!
(Besides, then I can, ahem, access my files while I’m in the lab. Hey, if they make me work 80 hours/week, I need to fit in wedding planning SOMEWHERE and in between experiments at 8am on a Saturday is just as good a time as any other, in my opinion.)

1/15/08 @ 2:59 pm (reply)

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Red (message) 120 posts, Blushing bee

I did most of my research online and saved pictures I liked in PDF format. The rest I cut and filed into a binder.

PS. Another alternative to the felt fortune cookies is to make them out of gumpaste (can be purchased from Michaels). That way they’ll be edible too!!

1/15/08 @ 3:00 pm (reply)

Bee

Mrs. Bee (message) 3,252 posts, Sugar bee

yup i own an islice. i’d love to scan everything, but realistically… i’m lazy.

1/15/08 @ 3:01 pm (reply)

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briannie (message) 273 posts, Helper bee

I just copy images from the internet and put them into folders (”Hair,” “Flowers,” “Bridesmaid Dresses,” etc.). I only have 3 wedding magazines (so far…) and haven’t really found anything interesting yet.

1/15/08 @ 3:28 pm (reply)

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Bee

Miss Flamingo (message) 1,265 posts, Bumble bee

I must admit that I dont do this… it would be great since I have a huge collection of wedding mags… and other nice ones.

1/15/08 @ 3:58 pm (reply)

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Sarah

I have one of those magazine racks that looks like a ladder leaning up against the wall, with room for ten issues. Ten! So when I get a magazine (I subscribe to Real Simple and maybe pick up a single issue of others once in a while), I tear out any page with ads on both sides, or with a story or images I’m definitely not interested in, and I dog-ear the pages of things I really like. When the magazine rack fills up, I just look at the dog-eared pages and either cut them out and group them by topic, or realize it just wasn’t important enough to save in the first place.

1/15/08 @ 4:03 pm (reply)

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jayypeeee (message) 39 posts, Newbee

i am the recipient of MANY bridal magazine hand-me-downs. to keep organized, i also tear them out and punch holes in them direcly, and place them in my “wedding binder” with dividers. (i’m too lazy to put them in those clear sleeves). at first i felt guilty tearing out the pages i wanted (after my friends lovingly kept their magazines intact), but now i am def. more organized.

1/15/08 @ 4:44 pm (reply)

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Bee

Miss Canary (message) 633 posts, Busy bee

I’m a binder fiend. I have separate ones for different categories, i.e. “Home,” “Recipes,” “Wedding.” Then I have the plastic sleeves and extra large dividers.

I keep copies of Blueprint, Domino, and MS Weddings in tact.

My biggest problem is that my “To File” pile usually gets way too big and I never have time to really put everything away. Must stop subscribing to magazines!

1/15/08 @ 5:09 pm (reply)

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Bee

Mrs. Bee (message) 3,252 posts, Sugar bee

i used to do the binder/plastic sleeves thing, but now i have a whole shelf full of binders. i have the same problem with the “to file” pile and usually just spend hours doing it after i’ve put it off for awhile.

1/15/08 @ 5:22 pm (reply)

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haselwand (message) 187 posts, Blushing bee

I LOVE magazines and have saved all of certain ones (Vogue, Lucky, domino, Blueprint, weddings, graphic design magazines) and rip out pages of others to put into binders separated by type. I forced myself to throw out Elle and Harper’s Bazaar after keeping three years of back issues.

It is nice to hear other people love keeping their magazines. Most of my friends think I am crazy!

1/15/08 @ 5:43 pm (reply)

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Bee

Mrs. Corn (message) 1,010 posts, Bumble bee

I’m a binder girl myself…but the scanner idea is BRILLIANT!! I am SO stealing that!!

1/15/08 @ 8:17 pm (reply)

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heatherg (message) 13 posts, Newbee

you can cut off the bindings, and compile the pages of a couple magazines and get them binded at a copy shop/kinkos.

i’ve done it before (if you include the covers, you can still cut out ads and it’s easy to reference what year/month it came from)

i worked at a university library that would do that, and compile about 5 issues of a magazine in binding for references, and there were tons and tons of magazines from back until the early 1900s saved that way.

1/15/08 @ 9:13 pm (reply)

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Susan

When will Martha post this fabulous fortune cookie “recipe” online - I’ve looked all morning and cannot find it!

1/16/08 @ 11:13 am (reply)

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momo-hime

Bee, i’m just wondering what month of MS Living the fortune cookies and blossom branches came from?! i love it!

1/16/08 @ 7:25 pm (reply)

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Bee

Mrs. Bee (message) 3,252 posts, Sugar bee

it’s in the current issue on the newsstands now!

1/17/08 @ 12:39 am (reply)

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mssmartypants (message) 80 posts, Worker bee

What page of MS Living do I find the fortune cookie instructions? I have the January 2008 one (the one currently on the newstand) but can’t seem to find it.

Help and thanks!

1/19/08 @ 9:58 am (reply)

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Guest

it’s actually the february edition - but if you’re looking for the instructions for the fortune cookies you can find them on the website!

1/21/08 @ 10:57 pm (reply)

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Guest

i’ve been practicing this “rip the ads out” for years. the idea came to me after getting tired with carrying the extra paper weight in my gym bag (i usually during my elliptical cardio sessions). my friends think i’m weird but i don’t mind, i’m happier with the lighter bag and reduced space!

1/22/08 @ 6:33 pm (reply)