I bought a lot of "used" magazines off sites from people who no longer wanted them. It was a super, inexpensive way to find out which magazines were the best for my needs. There are a lot of good ones out there but seems they are getting less to them all the time. Some of them are about half the size of older issues. New mags. are expensive for me and it doesn't matter if the mags. are this years or 5 years old for they all have articles and patterns in therm. I wish you were closer to me for I would gladly give you a bunch that I am through with....I just don't want the bother of packaging them up for sending. You might want to take a day and go to one of your book stores such as Barnes and Noble and thumb through the quilt magazines to get an idea of which would fill your needs.