meemersmom

I had a couple of binders of the patterns I liked, but even those started to take up too much room. Then, I got the idea to scan them. I have a hand-held scanner that I bought off one of the tv channels. It has been the handiest little thing (and I've even purchased as gifts for a couple people who commented on using them...like and used by all). It allows you to wave the "wand" over the paper. You can then download to your computer. it puts things in either a jpg or pdf format to save. Now...no paper at all!

romanojg

I love quilting and cooking magazines. I converted over to ereader ones for my NookColor. The cooking ones are easy to find and hopfully the quilting ones will get better. I scan in my patterns into my pc and burn them to a cd. I take alot of quilting classes and do BOM and this really helps keeping things decluttered. I can also keep a copy of the scanned in ones on my Nook for easy viewing and access.

catmcclure

I have a lot of old magazines (even some Quilters Newsletters from the 80's). I've found in my quilting journey that what appeals to me today isn't necessarily what I'll want to do five or ten years down the pike. I have the magazines in holders on the shelf. When I'm going on a long trip I'll take a stack of 20 or so magazines (I go on looooonnng trips) and look through them. I frequently find an article or pattern that I wouldn't have looked at a few years ago that appeal to me now.

Darlene516

I do the same thing. I don:t have room to save yeard of magazines. I save them for 2 years or so then I take out what I want and get rid of the rest.

arimuse

merrylouw, Im with you! I bought a wand scanner, and not only do I scan anything I want to save in magazines to my computer (I have a whole folder called wand, and inside all my mags are individually folder filed, then that is backed up to an external drive); I am also in the process of copying my cookbooks to my computer so I can divest myself from that collection, too (I have a few hundred and will keep the oldest, collectable books) sharet

Bonbonary

I have started doing the same thing. I also stopped getting subscriptions because I only find one, if any, quilt of interest per issue. Now I browse through them at the store and only buy if something truly catches my eye. It saves a lot of money. Plus, I get so many ideas here at the quilt board and so many patterns are free on the internet.

MOBRIDGE MOM

I have quit getting magazines. This board gives me more inspiration and ideas than I will ever need!!

OmaForFour

LOVE this idea. I will also print and include the multitude of patterns I have saved by bookmarking online.

ann clare

Great post. Thanks for sharing all your ideas.

patchsamkim

I have started doing this also...after collecting magazines for years...I have been going through them and tearing out what I want, then they get passed amongst a group of friends who also tear out of the magazines, and then if there are still patterns left in the magazine, they go to the next guild meeting, or if nothing left but ads, the magazines get recycled.
The only magazines I am now keeping whole are "special additions" like the quilt shop magazines, totes and bags issue, the new primitive quilt magazine, and most of the Quilts and More magazines as I love just about everything in them, and too hard to tear out with different patterns on each side of pages....may as well keep the whole magazines!