Hi, I am new to quilting, but I have found that for photos, patterns, ideas, etc that I want to save, I scan them and then save them to a program called Evernote. The program is free for 60 MB each month. If you have more than one computer it will sync between computers, iphones, etc. This way you can keep your information that you want and then throw away the magazines. I do this with recipes, too. It has saved a lot of clutter in my sewing room.