Today I decided to go through all my magazines. I needed to menu plan anyway, so I quickly looked through the magazines and put the recipes I wanted to try in my app: paprika (which stores recipes, generates grocery lists, and holds my menu plan). I LOVE having paperless recipes!! Less paper = less clutter!
Magazines & catalogs can be a huge clutter bug in the home. Since I’m going paperless with recipes, it seemed to make sense to just give the magazines to someone else. Anyway, I had done a huge purge of magazines before my son was born, but still they have stacked up again. I had a huge basket full, and then another makeshift magazine holder full. This is the pile I sorted through and got rid of:
I’m going to keep by the rule: when I get a new monthly subscription or seasonal catalog in the mail, I’ll immediately get rid of the old one. I can browse the websites for recipes whenever I want and I don’t want all that clutter in my home. (Plus, with a toddler I don’t really make time to read magazines anymore.) I was able to fit all the remaining magazines in this smaller basket:
If you don’t have any empty baskets on hand, you could make these cute Homemade Storage Boxes from usps boxes (source – A Bowl Full of Lemons). With homemade storage boxes, you could organize them by subscriptions.
I choose just to use one basket and not keep any more magazine than that basket can hold. I keep the basket by my bed, where I might be likely to read them.
Well, I’ll see you tomorrow. I’m going to go through my deep freezer!
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