279349 Fri Aug 19 14:59:22 -0700 2005 15 31 Home Cooking 0 1481108 I hesitate to cut them up and want to keep them handy. How do you manage them? Fri Aug 19 14:59:22 -0700 2005 0 edinaeats 1 1481109 Most cooking mags now have all the recipes online for subscribers, so one solution is to print out the recipes you're interested in and keep them in a binder. Then you can save the magazines themselves, unmolested. Fri Aug 19 15:05:22 -0700 2005 1481108 0 Spade 1 1481110 Many years ago I used to remove the page with the recipes I liked and put it in a bonder under the appropriate heading(apps, seafood, dessert etc.) I stopped doing that because I often liked the article that acoompanied the reicpe - so now I make note of the recipe/mag&date and enter it in a spreadhseet and keep the whole magazine, if there is nothing I feel is worth keeping in an issue I give it to my elderly neighbor who loves reading them but is on a fixed income and doesn't buy any for herself. I find that I usually keep all of the holiday issues and my DH often overides what I am planning to give away. This seems to take less time than removing and binding the recipes. The 'Keepers' are in magazine holders on shelfs by my cookbooks ordered by publication, maybe when I'm retired like my neibor I'll also order them by issue. Fri Aug 19 15:09:25 -0700 2005 1481108 0 AimeeP 1 1481111 I keep them for 1 year and then they go to recycling. Since so many of the recipes are so readily available on line I can't see giving them house space. Fri Aug 19 15:33:00 -0700 2005 1481108 0 Candy 1 1481113 I have a select few magazines that go untouched that I keep because I find them more enjoyable to look at than the computer screen. But, if I find a recipe in, let's say, "Midwest Living," or something like that, I will tear it out and put it in a sheet protector, label it, (magazine, issue, page #, author, etc.) and put it in a binder. But, I do love organizing! :) Fri Aug 19 16:00:04 -0700 2005 1481108 0 Katie Nell 1 1481118 I'm down to just Saveur and a newsletter nowadays. We get those magazine file boxes from IKEA (I think most of the storage-goodie stores carry them) and file the Saveurs in numerical order in the backup cookbook space upstairs (as opposed to the massive main cookbook library in the den!). The few back issues of other mags I've kept for one reason or another have a box of their own. The newsletters are three-hole punched, so they go in a binder... Fri Aug 19 16:34:06 -0700 2005 1481108 0 Will Owen 2 1481135 Just out of curiosity, what newsletter do you get? Also (again- curiosity, sorry) do you live in Nashville? I grew up there, and miss it.. Fri Aug 19 17:52:26 -0700 2005 1481118 0 babcock 3 1481180 "The Curmudgeon's Home Companion", put out monthly by a guy in Northern CA named Dan Goldberg. An old friend from my Palo Alto days gives me a subscription for Christmas every year. I'm originally from Illinois, but after winding up in the SF Bay Area for a while I relocated to Nashville in '73 and stayed there until 2000. Lots of friends and some family there - try to get back once a year at least. I'm in Pasadena, CA now, where my wife grew up and her parents live. Sat Aug 20 01:26:50 -0700 2005 1481135 0 Will Owen 1 1481134 I usually cut out the pages with recipes I like (especially from Saveur) and then put them in Avery file jackets and file them in a binder. This way I won't stain those pages when I cook and don't have to punch through the pages. Fri Aug 19 17:52:14 -0700 2005 1481108 0 Momo 1 1481137 When it comes to Cooking Light, I had a subscription and then bought the Annual Recipe book that would come out at the end of each year. I'd give the old issues to my mother-in-law. But now I have stopped my subscription to Cooking Light and, if I want, I'll just buy the book and save trees. If there are some issues I can't part with or don't have the annual book, I keep them in magazine folders from the Container Store. Fri Aug 19 17:57:29 -0700 2005 1481108 0 LAmonkeygirl 1 1481164 I tear out the recipes I'm inclined to use, then pass the magazines on to friends who do the same. Fri Aug 19 21:35:37 -0700 2005 1481108 0 Funwithfood 1 1481166 I xerox the pages I want, 3-hole punch, put in binder and give magazines to library or Kaiser waiting room. Fri Aug 19 21:44:57 -0700 2005 1481108 0 Sarah 1 1481169 I was given a subscription to Gourmet in 1976. Ten years and several bookcases later, I finally decided to get rid of them, only to find out that they were valuable and worth much more than I paid for them! Now, I simply tear out the recipes I like and donate the rest. I hate giving them away, though, to this day...perhaps wallpapering the house would work. Fri Aug 19 22:05:55 -0700 2005 1481108 0 shopgirl 1 1481289 I tore out the recipes and articles I liked and pasted them into a composition book. I feel incredibly guilty throwing them away instead of donating (esp after reading all the replies! :)), however I do sympathize with those who also feel the pain of parting with old cooking magazines! This cut and paste method works well for a while until you encounter the problem of figuring out what to do with all these composition books! Sun Aug 21 21:08:45 -0700 2005 1481108 0 Kathy 2 1481306 I also clip and paste. What I do is create an index on the computer - one index for each book, separated by type of dish, and a master index all merged together, i.e., cakes, salads, etc. - and print them out. To do this you must of course number the pages of your notebooks and differentiate between the volumes. The notebooks sit with my cookbooks, and I can flip through and browse, or look at the index to see what's where. Mon Aug 22 02:52:12 -0700 2005 1481289 0 Caitlin McGrath 1 1481725 I save only Gourmet; I've got copies going back to the 40's when it was a delightful magazine. The rest I clip and paste into a notebook or Xerox, 3-hole punch and into the same notebook, then give to a local retirement home. Gourmet is pretty seasonally-themed. The old copies are in bookshelves, organized by month (all Junes together, etc.). That way when, say, Thanksgiving rolls around I can access all the Thanksgiving recipes they've published. I Xerox the recipe index for each issue and keep those in a notebook organized by month. Those recipes which I use repeatedly are Xeroxed and kept in a notebook. Wed Aug 24 12:55:46 -0700 2005 1481108 0 TomSwift