I have torn a lot of magazines like you and have the sleeves, but that's as far as I've gotten. :lol:

Great ideas!!

Great idea! I have stacks of magazines from years ago and I am tired of them taking up space but I want some of the patterns from them. I like your idea!

My only problem with this is that I may not see anything that "strikes my fancy" this time, and two years from now something jumps out at me! I have bought many of my magazines at flea markets or off of ebay, and many are very old...but I have only recently gotten rid of any of them. I have looked through them several times and finally gotten rid of several boxes of them through the board here, but I still tend to hang on to more than I can go through and tear or give to someone else. Guess I just hoard too much... I do have them confined to one bookcase...

I do the same thing. I get my 3-ring binders from the thrift store, expecially on 50% senior discount day. Have been getting really nice white ones for 49 cents, the kind with the plastic front cover you can slip a page into - that's what I use for sort of an 'index' of the contents.

great idea!

I do the same. Some patterns I do back to back so I can fit motre in. I got smaller ones at dollar tree when they stock up at back to school time ( wish I'd bought more!). One for recipes, one for crochet patterns one for cut out pattern pieces and a big notebook for quilt patterns!!

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!!!

leaves us room to store more stuff!!!!!

My tastes change so that wont work for me.
I tried marking with sticky notes and when I went back to look, I wondered why I even marked them but found others I liked that I had not marked.