I used to have a huge stash of magazines and decided I wanted to cut back. So in order for me to keep a magazine it had to have at least 3 patterns I loved. I marked those with those narrow plastic sticky notes. If it's a bag pattern, I wrote that on the note. If there was only one pattern I wanted I photocopied it, in color, and placed it into a binder. My friends and I have a system -- once we've looked through a magazine, we cut off the tip of one cover corner. I cut the top right. This way I know when the magazine comes around again I've already seen it. Once all of us have gone through them we donate them to our guild's free table. My kept magazines are in a holder with the name on the label. I can only save as many as the holder can handle. I have a new rule in buying magazines-- it must have at least 3 patterns that I live or it stays in the store. The same goes with buying quilt books. I know I'm saving money that I can now spend on fabric.