https://www.overstuffedlife.com/31-days-to-less-clutter-and-more-peace_15/ purposeful parenting and simplified living Sat, 15 Jul 2023 02:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overstuffedlife.com/31-days-to-less-clutter-and-more-peace_15/#comment-1081 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 19:24:00 +0000 #comment-1081 I, too, am overwhelmed with my piles of magazines. I also grab a handful at a time to go thru and tear out pages. THEN, I have piles of torn-out pages! Arrgghh. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Evernote, and I've started to take pictures using a scan app on my phone. It automatically turns it into a pdf, and then I send it to Evernote to be stored. I do that a lot with recipes, and inspiration photos for future reference. Haven't cleared all the piles yet, though. 🙂

]]> https://www.overstuffedlife.com/31-days-to-less-clutter-and-more-peace_15/#comment-1080 Wed, 25 Feb 2015 06:31:00 +0000 #comment-1080 I do this! I love magazines. I have binders for organizing and decorating, running and fitness, marriage, family, budget and finances, recipes and nutrition. I also make collage cards and vision boards and put inspiration on my bulletin board. I organize my magazines by season and/or holiday and I put them in pretty baskets on a bookcase and rotate to the living room, bathroom, kitchen, and bedroom. Right now I have Winter months and close to the middle of March I will put out my spring issues, then summer, fall, and December gets its own turn because of Christmas. I rarely get subscriptions unless it is a gift but there is a thrift store in town that sells them for ten cents and often current issues like Oprah, Living, Sunset, Better Homes and Gardens and sometimes some fashion magazines, etc. I just picked up four bags of magazines from a parent at our school and shared with a friend.When I am done with an issue if it is pretty beat up, I will recycle it or donate if it still has some life in it.

]]> https://www.overstuffedlife.com/31-days-to-less-clutter-and-more-peace_15/#comment-1079 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:07:24 +0000 #comment-1079 and of course, – I don't really get around to copy what's supposed to be copied. Bet you guessed it already 😉

]]> https://www.overstuffedlife.com/31-days-to-less-clutter-and-more-peace_15/#comment-1078 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:05:43 +0000 #comment-1078 This article is really inspiring, maybe also very helpful for me, because I tend to save magazines for the same reasons… We don't have any subscriptions for magazines, but we get several from our neighbour on a regular basis.. and I'd like to saverecipes or so, but can't really rip them out,m because we circle the mags inside the house from neighbour to neighbour .. and so I plan to get the depending pages copied. This is one of the reasons why I have too many magazines lying around 😛

]]> https://www.overstuffedlife.com/31-days-to-less-clutter-and-more-peace_15/#comment-1077 Thu, 25 Dec 2014 15:26:48 +0000 #comment-1077 Lara, it's so funny that I came across your Pin while I am in the midst of a major purging of magazines. Like you, I get a lot of subscriptions either free or at a very low price and have a lot of subscriptions. Also, being a freelance writer for many years, I collected a lot of magazines because when you're writing for a magazine you have to know what that magazine has already published over the past year. When I started my purge I probably had more than a thousand magazines. They were squared away pretty neatly in bookcases in my office; nevertheless, I felt they were clutter that was dragging me down. I am letting all my subscriptions lapse, for the time being, and am happily recycling!

]]> https://www.overstuffedlife.com/31-days-to-less-clutter-and-more-peace_15/#comment-1076 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:54:29 +0000 #comment-1076 My plan is to add sheet protectors when I need to. I was trying to do this decluttering project without spending extra money, so I used what I had in the house. My daughter finished off all my sheet protectors for a school project last month. It is wonderful to be able to just get rid of the magazine ASAP. I'm trying to do it while I'm reading so it's just DONE.

]]> https://www.overstuffedlife.com/31-days-to-less-clutter-and-more-peace_15/#comment-1075 Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:25:08 +0000 #comment-1075 I do something similar. I have the binder and the dividers with labels. Only I'm a tad more OCD. I place each thing in a sheet protector to go behind it's respective divider. Sometimes there may be two things per sheet protector (think recipes) or sometimes there may be several pages per sheet protector (think articles), but this way they stay in the binder, nice and neat, and the rest of the magazine can go either to the recycle bin, or, in only a page or two is missing, my dr office waiting room! And that's one less clutter magnet for me!

]]> https://www.overstuffedlife.com/31-days-to-less-clutter-and-more-peace_15/#comment-1074 Sat, 18 Oct 2014 01:27:52 +0000 #comment-1074 Thank you!

]]> https://www.overstuffedlife.com/31-days-to-less-clutter-and-more-peace_15/#comment-1073 Sat, 18 Oct 2014 01:27:39 +0000 #comment-1073 We are very blessed where we live. Though I always say that the gorgeous falls are our consolation prize for the eternal winters. 🙂

]]> https://www.overstuffedlife.com/31-days-to-less-clutter-and-more-peace_15/#comment-1072 Sat, 18 Oct 2014 01:27:12 +0000 #comment-1072 You should come up and visit me!

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