(These are a v. stylish friend’s magazine stacks, but the scene is awfully similar to what’s happening at my house.)
I am a magazine junkie.
I subscribe to, buy, borrow (and rarely toss) countless titles, resulting in leaning towers of glossy goodness populating untold corners of my home.
But things are starting to get out of control (think Hoarders: magazine edition), so I’ve been trying to make some order out of the situation. After tearing out my favorite pages, I hesitantly purged about half my collection, but the question of how to store the “keepers” so they’re easy to peruse but still stylishly contained remained.
So I carved out a chunk of the weekend to tackle the issue once and for all. After hitting the Barnes and Noble on Northwest Highway to buy yet more magazines (no really I did, I have a problem), I popped into The Container Store next door in search of my publication corralling panacea.
And friends there it was, sitting there ever so nonchalantly — the (super chic) acrylic magazine slipcase. It’s sleek, simple, transparent (+ the full-open front lets you view the entire spine), tidy… I think this baby just might be the answer.
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This is EXACTLY what I need! I too am a shameless magazine hoarder…I still have magazines from Jr. High that I just can’t part with (heirlooms for posterity I keep telling myself!) so this will help alleviate some of the stacks that I have in every room of my house! Thanks so much, Joslyn, from one fellow magazine junkie to another!
I am a magazine hoarder myself, and have been since the early 90s! I buy at least 10 different magazines a month. My father travels all over the world on business trips, and I always ask him to bring me back a foreign magazine! A few years ago, I started doing the exact same thing that you did, I started going through each and every magazine and I would tear out my favorite pages, and chunk the rest! It helped, but there are still so many that I don’t want to part with. Like my collection of George magazines by the late John F. Kennedy Jr., and the foreign magazines, of course! I love your idea of keeping them in the clear acrylic slipcase! Genious!
Hello luvah! Absolute must have….thanks!