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Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
Having a big old clear out this year. Need to downsize the house in the next year or so. The vinyl's gone, the cassettes are gone, so are the VHS tapes. Still got hundreds of music mags, 'Q', 'Mojo' 'The Face' etc, going back to the early '90's. What the heck am I going to do with them? Can't face EBay, it'll turn into a nightmare ( 'item doesn't match description, half the crossword was filled in'  ) I'm 6 miles from 'Scotland's Book Town' but none of the bookshops want them, even for free. Are they headed for a landfill?
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2015/11/02 20:46:27
jamesg1213
I'm 6 miles from 'Scotland's Book Town' but none of the bookshops want them, even for free. Are they headed for a landfill?
That's just wong on so many levels. (I'll get me coat)
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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☄ Helpfulby jamesg1213 2015/11/02 12:56:08
Libraries might be interested in having them or colleges/uni's with music programs. You could also put them up as a lot on ebay essentially just to get the cost of shipping covered and some nerdo would likely give them a good home. I too hate seeing material like that just go to a landfill. edit: Sorry... missed the part about not wanting to deal with ebay but you just put it up for 99c (or I guess pence) "AS IS" with something in your description just stating you don't want them in the garbage and don't really care about making money. Some studios might like to have them for reading material in the crapper too. Maybe they'll let you look at/play with the shiny knobby things while you're there and/or you can make some new music friends.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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☄ Helpfulby SteveStrummerUK 2015/11/02 19:55:51
No, please, carry on Ed. I don't really want any suggestions, just some side-splitting comedy gold and brilliantly chosen uploaded pics that we all laugh at...every...single...time...for...years... Perhaps a pun or two about 'clear-out?' That might get the ball rolling. Hehe..Jaymes sed 'ball'... Etc...
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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Beepster
Libraries might be interested in having them or colleges/uni's with music programs.
You could also put them up as a lot on ebay essentially just to get the cost of shipping covered and some nerdo would likely give them a good home.
I too hate seeing material like that just go to a landfill.
Library is a good idea Beeps.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
2015/11/02 12:49:36
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if you don't read them regularly,
throw them away.
it's just boneheaded to hold onto stuff you do not use.
it's called 'pack rat syndrome'.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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I'm actually not familiar with those mags so maybe I'm mistaken in thinking they are "recording" related. Perhaps more music culture mags.
Still good stuff for libraries or any music nerdy places. I love reading old mags of any kind. It's a cool peek into the past. Even just the ads are interesting to me. I'm weird like that though.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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batsbrew
if you don't read them regularly,
throw them away.
it's just boneheaded to hold onto stuff you do not use.
it's called 'pack rat syndrome'.
I think that's what James is attempting but without letting them go to waste. When I was a little snerpwapper various family members would give me subscriptions to Guitar World/Guitar Player. I cannot for the life of me recall what the heck happened to those collections but lately I've been kind of wanting to check out all those moldy oldies... if just to compare how I viewed the content back then and how I view it now. Looooooots of hair back then. lulz...
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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☄ Helpfulby jamesg1213 2015/11/02 13:39:15
I chucked out a load back along. A least my local authority took them for recycling not landfill.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
2015/11/02 13:28:08
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batsbrew
if you don't read them regularly,
throw them away.
it's just boneheaded to hold onto stuff you do not use.
it's called 'pack rat syndrome'.
Yes, thanks for that. Which is why the LPs, cassettes and VHS have gone. I'm not a compulsive hoarder or 'pack rat', or even a collector. I just have stuff I need to offload, it's that time of life.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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Beepster
I'm actually not familiar with those mags so maybe I'm mistaken in thinking they are "recording" related. Perhaps more music culture mags.
Still good stuff for libraries or any music nerdy places. I love reading old mags of any kind. It's a cool peek into the past. Even just the ads are interesting to me. I'm weird like that though.
;-)
Yeah, they're music culture mags. Mojo is the best of the bunch, excellent journalism.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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Glyn Barnes
I chucked out a load back along. A least my local authority took them for recycling not landfill.
Good point Glyn, I could get them to a recycling centre without too much trouble. Still seems a shame though.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
2015/11/02 13:37:42
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I tried to make a scrap book. Went through all the old mags and cut out the stuff that could be useful down the road. Those tabs and tech articles went into a file folder and the rest went to recycle. I have about 150 lbs of schematics in boxes that I'm trying to sort. As I get them in PDF, I get rid of the hard copy. I'll be dead before the pile is gone.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
2015/11/02 13:42:24
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Secondary loft installation, then if you suddenly need to read one you know where they are. It is an alternative recycling, it is re-purposing. 
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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☄ Helpfulby jamesg1213 2015/11/02 14:54:09
James,
It's a tough thing to deal with finding your mags a new home since you valued these mags enough to save them.
FWIW, I find it hard sometimes to accept in my life that some of the things that have given me joy and an outlet for passing my time creatively are not things that other people value .
good luck ,
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
2015/11/02 14:53:43
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James,
Most mags I can chunk without a second thought. But I can't throw away MOJO's, New Yorker's, or National Geographic's. All are worth rereading 10 years later. I say keep the MOJO's.
Cheers,
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
2015/11/02 14:54:26
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No, please, carry on Ed. I don't really want any suggestions, just some side-splitting comedy gold and brilliantly chosen uploaded pics that we all laugh at...every...single...time...for...years...
Perhaps a pun or two about 'clear-out?' That might get the ball rolling.
Hehe..Jaymes sed 'ball'...
Etc...
Sorry mayte, I'm plumb out of pics to upload. Craigb has some.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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Secondary loft installation, then if you suddenly need to read one you know where they are. It is an alternative recycling, it is re-purposing.
There is an excellent idea.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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Hi,
I've gone over some of the mags I have and pulled out the articles worth having and dumped the rest. I mean, c'mon, you look at keyboard magazine and you find 3 lines about Tangerine Dream, and 50 pages about a cheap second rate keyboard player ... it's just wrong on so many levels musically! Same with the Bass Player and Bass Magazine.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
2015/11/02 15:00:12
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Wookiee
Secondary loft installation, then if you suddenly need to read one you know where they are. It is an alternative recycling, it is re-purposing.
There is an excellent idea.
It certainly would be, if I had a loft.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
2015/11/02 19:57:07
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I wish I still had my issues of Sounds/NME/Record Mirror (maybe even a few Melody Makers) from around mid '76 up until around '80/'81-ish. I occasionally look up back copies from that period of time on eBay, and I can remember every cover. I suppose it's more the memories of reading them, and the associated good times, rather than the actual content, that creates that 'feeling' in me though. Nostalgia is a thing of the past 
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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jamesg1213
No, please, carry on Ed. I don't really want any suggestions, just some side-splitting comedy gold and brilliantly chosen uploaded pics that we all laugh at...every...single...time...for...years...
Perhaps a pun or two about 'clear-out?' That might get the ball rolling.
Hehe..Jaymes sed 'ball'...
Etc...
Sorry mayte, I'm plumb out of pics to upload.
Craigb has some.
James just can't seem to get enough of those images...
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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I'm almost done with a major declutter myself. There has been some stuff that probably has some value to someone, but I just don't have the time to market it. I took the easy way and just chucked it out. If I hadn't looked for it or at it for a year, it went out. I found a complete set of PA speaker cables that I hadn't used in over 10 years, among other stuff like that.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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Hi, Not bad ... been improving in that department ... about 30 more LP's will move out this week ... and I cleared up some more stuff on my website, as I still have 190 film reviews to add to the website (already at 215 or so) ... and then I will work on cleaning up the write ups I have on my 2 novels ... with printouts all over the place with errata and such. All the poetry is on the computer, just not on the website. All my short stories are on the website. All my novels WON'T be on the website. But they will be cleaned up and ready to go. One of them for sure. The 2nd might not make it. The 3rd is an unknown. There is a 4th brewing that is written in my head (first time I ever did that, btw!!!), almost all the way to the end. After that ... it doesn't matter to me! But I think I will be into music quite a bit more than I am now.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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I had a collection of more than 12 years of Guitar Player Magazine. It was complete.
I had considered the library but they didn't really act excited and would have put them in a back room in the basement where no one would have known they were there.
I sold it on E-bay and even made some money on it.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
2015/11/03 13:14:51
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Fahrenheit 451.
You have a wood stove?
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2015/11/03 18:57:20
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Fahrenheit 451.
You have a wood stove?
I used to, but it burned down. I'll get a metal one next time.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
2015/11/03 13:33:46
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James,
Most mags I can chunk without a second thought. But I can't throw away MOJO's, New Yorker's, or National Geographic's. All are worth rereading 10 years later. I say keep the MOJO's.
Cheers,
Bert
They are good Bert, but I haven't read any of them in at least 12 years. Time to go.
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Re: Decluttering...what to do with music mags?
2015/11/03 13:48:03
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57Gregy
Fahrenheit 451.
You have a wood stove?
I used to, but it burned down. I'll get a metal one next time.
How about an outhouse? The Sears catalog was very popular at my grandfather's farm.
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