I had the Closet Domino Affect happen to me yesterday. Surely it has happened to you to?
I opened my foyer closet, and 27 things fell out onto me and all over the floor. This led to me taking every last thing out of it, giving it a super quick paint job to fix my last super quick paint job, and searching for homes for everything I deemed inappropriate to live in this closet, particularly since we have the little mudroom in our garage to make a giant mess of daily.
Now this little closet is all cleaned out, with room for guests’ coats
(let’s gaze at it together, shall we?) –
– but in finding homes for what the little closet had been harboring, I came to the realization that despite my love of recycling, cleaning out, simplifying and living with less, there are magazines piled here, there and everywhere in this house.
I’m a magazine hoarder. There, I said it.
Let’s face it – with the digital age upon us, there really isn’t a need to hold onto magazines anymore. Even though I love to look at a beautiful magazine – it doesn’t mean I have to keep it forever.
Also, if one is going to stockpile magazines in his or her home, then at the very least, make them look fabulous!
Less – I don’t clean my house very well, more – magazines as part of my interior design. HA!
Magazines all over the house = hoarding.
Magazines used as accessories = chic and not so hoard-ish, don’t you agree?
{Unknown source}
{Lonny}
{Stockholm apartment/Per Jansson Photography}
Are you a magazine hoarder also? Maybe we should start a support group.
Lisa
Lobster Meets Peach says
I don't know what it is about magazines but I just can't part with them. I, too, need a support group!
Jane Bernard says
Oh I love stacked magazines too! They're just so pretty all lined up and organized. I have several stacks in our built-ins..
Cassie @ Primitive & Proper says
i have this problem and i ended up purging many a year ago…. when we built our new shelves in the living room i left plenty of room for new stacks!
Stacey {steward of design} says
I'm a total hoarder. I have good intentions of cutting out images I like and putting them in folders but well…
I love how the stacks of mags look in all these photos.
pam {simple details} says
I confess…yes! But, I did clean out a LOT a couple years ago, probably due for another purge!
Beth of designPOST Interiors says
If the cover is pretty I find it impossible to throw away! I consider magazines accessories!
Jennifer @ Dimples and Tangles says
Yes, mainly b/c I can't bear to throw them away after I've looked at them! I've started tearing out my favorite ideas as I look through them, though, and then passing them on to my MIL. They still pile up quickly, though!
NanaDiana says
Oh- I am! I am finally starting to part with some of them. I gave my "recipe" magazines to a friend that loves cook books AND recipes…AND I gave at least 1/2 of my gardening magazines to a gardener friend. It feels good – and freeing.
What CAN'T I let go of? Romantic Homes and Jeanne d'Arc and a few old Christmas magazines. I just can't seem to part with those.
Good luck- I need to do my front hall closet tomorrow!!! xo Diana
Jackie@AbsolutelySeriouslyFabulous says
I do not do magazines anymore. I used to love them and had several subscriptions. Since Pinterest. I do not have the need anymore. Some of the pictures look like magazine hoarders to me :). I would love that lucite coffee table!
Ter'e says
I am also a magazine hoarder. I love the feel of the pages and the gorgeous photos of things I will never do or buy.
Dresses I can't wear.
Makeup I would never wear.
Shoes I would break my neck in.
Houses I will never step foot in.
Yoga poses I could not do, even 40 years ago.
Still, I read and re-read.
And hoard………happily.
🙂
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
I was a total magazine hoarder until we were getting ready to move and then I (under much duress!) trashed almost all of them. I actually love not having them everywhere in our new house so I'm pretty much a reformed addict. Now I take a picture of things I want to remember and upload it to Pinterest and out the magazine goes to recycling!
janet says
Consider donating to a hospital! We take all of our old magazines, mark out our name and address with a sharpie and donate them to the children's hospital. It's a small gesture, but for parents waiting countless hours for their child in surgery or undergoing treatment, it is a good way to help them pass the time. Plus, it feels so good to get rid of clutter!
Andrea says
I'm a magazine hoarder. There, I admitted it. With Spring on the horizon (hopefully), I'm committing to purging. Magazines are now fist on the purge list.
Dana Frieling says
That's something I've always pondered…why's it so hard to throw away a magazine? I never reread them so I try to limit my purchasing of them.
Vel Criste says
Lets! I don't display my hoard though they are neatly filed in a bookshelf inside my huge linen closet upstairs by MONTH! yes, I'm a bit of an O-C but I only keep 2 mags, Martha and Real Simple.
Privet and Holly says
I had to laugh at
Domino Syndrome,
which has driven
my 2014 cleaning
and purging activity!
I verge on being a
magazine-aholic. I
have some doctors
and dentists that I
actually look forward
to visiting because
of the great mags they
have in their waiting
rooms : ) And I have
way way too many
subscriptions–working
on letting some of
those go…..
Love the storage ideas.
Now I have an excuse
to start keeping some
of my issues, versus
tossing them after I've
torn out the bits I want
to keep!
xo Suzanne
Kristin @ My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia says
I have the hardest time throwing away magazines too… I hate it Glad I'm not the only one. I know when my huge crate is overflowing it is time to go through them and it is so darn hard. 🙂
JaneyG says
I am definitely a magazine hoarder – especially interior design magazines, I just love them! I have started tearing out the best recipes etc and will stick them in a scrapbook. Someone I know did this and ended up with some really nice recipe books. The same could be done with decorating and craft ideas. It’s not worth keeping a whole magazine just for one article! I have set myself the task of reducing the piles that are invading every room …