Have magazines taken over your life... are they filling up all your cubbyholes? Crawling out from under your bed at night to torment you?
I will admit that I have a problem... everything from cooking, home and gardening, decorating... I even suspect the have started to breed on their own. So even though I chickened out on cleaning and organizing one of my disastrous rooms I decided to wrangle up the glossies and get them under control.
Step 1- Collect all magazines in a pile/find good music to listen to
Step 2- Go through and tear out the pages that have things you like- personally I keep useful guides, decorating ideas, DIY instructions... think of it as if you personally are an old school RSS feeder
Step 3- File away physically or trim down even more using a scanner and your computer. I decided to cut down on the decorating clutter and group the pictures into rooms before scanning. I like this best because now all the blogs I follow and magazine pull outs are in the same place
Master Bedroom
Guest Bedroom
Kitchen/Diner
Living Room
Step 4- Recycle... or Re-purpose!
If you take the time to go through your files once a month you can further filter and remind yourself about projects that you wanted to do. How do you organize the madness?
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