My mom has a lot of my old CK magazines...WWPD?

When we moved I got rid of all of my magazines. I flipped through and tore out articles or recipes that I thought I might try, then they all went in the recycler. If you haven't looked at them in the past 5-10 years, your not going to look at them in the next 5-10 years. Plus, pretty sure it's either outdated or you can find it online.

Donate them to a group home, retirement community, or school.

I wouldn't even go through them.

And if you can't do that, recycle them.

My mom recently did a big purge of magazines. As others have mentioned, she did a quick flip through and just tore out anything she thought she would still want and filed that away. I think she found that she was quite happy to just get rid of most of them.

Lots of the regular issues don't seem to really be moving on Ebay--I see only 16 lots of them sold and over 120 listed.
(Now perhaps if you have the very first few years, or a bunch of the HOF issues, those might do better.)

I personally would offer them up on my local Buy Nothing group--even if I did pull out some pages first--I'd just let people know that when I offered them.

I remember how hard it was to get rid of my old scrapbook magazines. Mainly because of how much money I'd spent! At the height of the scrapbooking craze, when there used to be so many different magazines, I would buy about six every month. At $10 each (AUD), that is a lot of money I spent over the years.

I was going to go through them and rip out the pages that I wanted to keep, but in the end I left them intact, and donated them. The woman at the Op Shop (like Goodwill) told me that women coming into the shop loved scrapbook mags.

I think I did end up keeping a handful of my favourites. 

My vote is to get rid of them, especially if you haven't looked at them in years, and didn't even remember that your mum had them. Keep a few of your favourites, and donate the rest (if they will even take them these days!). If they don't accept them for donation, into the recycling bin they go!

ETA: Here is the photo I took of the last batch I got rid of, in 2015. That's over $1200 worth.   Think of all the supplies I could have bought with that money!

If you do decide to donate some or all I would give the place a call first. Many thrift shops are not accepting magazines any more and will just end up recycling them, or worse, will send you back home with them.

I have the same situation here. I have two bins full of magazines to do something with soon. I was thinking about keeping the special editions published, I'm thinking of holiday issues that CK published, maybe?

But, I thought about (maybe) tearing out some pages and putting them in page protectors in a binder, if I haven't used them after a certain time then they can go to recycling.

I loved all the magazines back in the day, kinda miss that there aren't any now. But man they are bulky and heavy to store.

Before I moved, I ripped out any pages that I wanted to keep and put them into page protectors in a binder. Although I have looked at them, it has been rare. Things change in this industry so fast that many of the ideas are outdated. On the other hand, techniques often make a comeback eventually, and it’s sometimes fun to go back and look.

Hi,

I would love to purchase the Creating Keepsakes magazine from September 11, 2011((I think that is the right one). It has an article about ways to scrap memorabilia.

PM me for more info.

jamh