What To Do With Old Magazines?

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#1  Edited By LikeaSsur

So I'm doing a bit of cleaning today, an found a ginormous stash of old magazines. Expert Gamer, Tips & Tricks, Nintendo Power, GameNOW....the list goes on.

I imagine some of you are/have been in the same boat as me, so I ask you: what did you do with your old magazines? Throw them in storage for a nostalgia trip 20 years from now? Recycle them? Something in between?

Give me some ideas, duders. What should I do with the vast amount of pages of gaming tips, news, and reviews?

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#2  Edited By DoctorWelch

Yeah, I have wondered this too. I have no idea what to do with my old magazines. Sometimes I like looking through them, and they provide a cool way to see what was happening in games at certain times. So I don't want to throw them away, but they take up so much space.

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#3  Edited By 49th

Recycle them. Unless you have first issues they are not usually worth much.

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Scrapbook them.

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#5  Edited By dichemstys

Got a scanner? It's time consuming, but then they won't take up physical space.

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#6  Edited By Ravenlight

Eat them.

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#7  Edited By Bell_End

i had this problem with my old porn mag collection. i ended up just putting them in a carrier bag and leaving them near a tree in a local park.

with luck some youngster will find them and put them to good use.

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#8  Edited By McGhee

Dump them in the woods. Kids will be so disappointed when they find them and they aren't porn.

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#9  Edited By mtcantor

KEEP ALL OF THEM! YOU MIGHT NEED THEM SOME DAY!

At least that's what I tell myself every time I look at my 8 storage boxes of books and magazines.

That and I could never cope with throwing away my old Nintendo Powers. NEVER.

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#10  Edited By LikeaSsur

@c0l0nelp0c0rn1: @Apparatus_Unearth: These are both great ideas. I think I'll....wait a sec...

@Ravenlight said:

Eat them.

Well....I am pretty hungry....

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#11  Edited By LD50

You could take them to a Half Price Books to donate. If their less than two months old, they might pay you for them. It won't be much though. I'm not a fan of HPB anymore, and this will cause extra work for them.

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#12  Edited By SexyToad

put them in the blender with water, yogurt, ice, and milk, and make a delicious magazine smoothie.

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#13  Edited By TheHBK

Put them in the bathrooms around your house. It is always nice to see what games used to look like, what kind of writing there was in these, reviews for games and compare to what we think of them now, previews are always hilarious where a game is getting hyped up even though back then it looked bad or we later found out it was a piece of garbage.

Yup, keep em because old game magazines are awesome when taking a dump.

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#14  Edited By Lunar_Aura

Re- read all of them and clip out all the hilariously wrong predictions!

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#15  Edited By BraveToaster

@49th said:

Recycle them.

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#16  Edited By AMyggen

I'm not really a collector...of anything. So I just throw them away after I'm done with 'em. I never go back to stuff like that anyway.

Or, I do still have some magazines from my childhood, but that's more for nostalgic reasons. I haven't really kept a single magazine the last 10 years.

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#17  Edited By ShaggE

Definitely scan and recycle.

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#18  Edited By mikey87144

I recycled quite a bit of my collection. I had Gamepro's, going back to the N64 era and was sad to have to toss them but toss them I did.

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#19  Edited By ImmortalSaiyan

Burn them.

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#20  Edited By Slag

recycle or sell. Unless I really wanted to keep them for nostalgia and had a way to do so that I would actually be able to access them on demand

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#21  Edited By NlGHTCRAWLER

Bury them in my backyard.

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Don't throw them away dude, I love finding old magazines and comics.

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#23  Edited By forkboy

Only mags I keep now are year end issues of a music magazine I buy irregularly, Terrorizer.

Otherwise, recycled in one way or another, either into the recycling depot or else passed on to other people. I used to hate letting go of magazines but face it brother, you're not going to care what score Spyro 2 got today, never mind in the future. Use that space for something better.

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Cut them up and make collages with the pictures.

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#25  Edited By sweep  Moderator

Art them.

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#26  Edited By DrPockets000

Penis pedestal. 

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#27  Edited By thedj93

stack them up in the bathroom for your guests

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#28  Edited By Hunter5024

@ImmortalSaiyan said:

Burn them.

This is really the only right answer.

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#29  Edited By Sploder

Glue pages together that have pictures of women on them then give them to your little brother. Do this for every magazine.

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#30  Edited By Bigandtasty

Recycle or sell if they're worth anything (usually not; I was saddened at the extreme lack of value that Nintendo Power #100 fetched), but I am not much for nostalgia.