Art teachers love magazines for projects.

If you can't give them away and you don't look at them in 6 months recycle.

I usually pass them on to family and friends, or I put them out with the recyclables. But donating them to a hospital or a school is a great idea!

You can also take them to DayCare. They cut out and past pictures of everythying. Assisted living homes, hospitals, Doctor's offices, churches and/or anywhere you have to wait, like barber shops, oil change..ect..

Good Luck!

Donate the older ones to the local elementary school. The art teachers use them for collages and the kindergarten teachers use them for the students to look for and cut out the "letter of the week".

I used to bring my magazines to a local hospital. I would leave them in the volunteer's office.

They were very happy to get them as most of their magazines were ancient.

This idea occurred to me when I was in the hospital and offered some magazines to read by the volunteers. When I noticed how old their magazines were I said to myself ... now I know what to do with all the magazines I have laying around!

It gets them out of my house, out of the trash and it helps brighten the day of someone bored in the hospital!

You can do the same with doctor's offices. I also used to drop some off at a kidney dialysis clinic ... those folks were SO happy to get my current magazines to look at.

Many, if not most magazines keep archive content online. After you've clipped your favorites, put the rest in recycling. I could never imagine doing it, but I am SO MUCH freer since getting rid of all my magazines!!