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Thanks for the tip! I am going to start mine on monday!

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Originally Posted by merrylouw

Years ago my DH (who taught marketing in college) told me that 75% of a magazine is advertizing. So, my stacks of magazines 2 feet tall were only 6 inches of content I was interested in! Yikes!

From then on, I mutilated my magazines! As I went thru it the first time, I tore out each article I was interested in and dropped it in a file folder. Later, I sorted the articles into categories: recipes, decorating, crafting, quilting, etc. Then into folders or binders.

Now, I'm digitizing everything! I'm scanning the paper copies onto my computer into similar folders and GETTING RID OF THE PAPER!!

Yipee!!!

I am a bit late on this message. But I too keep LOTS of pictures and patterns on my computer. It is so easy to find as I label and the computer list is in alpabetical order.

The binders are a great idea. Thanks

I have some magazines going back to the 1970s. When I retire (in 2 years), I'm going to scan them into my computer. As the magazines get older, the pages become more brittle. If anything happens to the hard copies, I'll still have the back up on my computer (backed up onto disks, of course).