If I had kept all the magazines I've received since I started quilting 15 years ago, I'd have to add a room to my house! There were certain patterns I liked but knew I'd never find them again if I had to go through a huge pile of magazines. So I spent time going through all magazines, and tore out the pages needed to make quilts I liked, stapled the pages together and put them in a plastic storage box. Tried putting them in binders, but I had too many quilt instructions to do that. Also found binders too time consuming. Patterns are now in the box and I just go through the box when I'm looking for a quilt idea.