What to do with audio Magazines

I finally to the great relief of my GF recycled a couple hundred audio mags about 5 years ago and never looked back. However I recently re-subscribe to Stereophile it was impossible to say no to $7 a year for two years! And it's been nice having mags around again good bathroom reading if nothing else.

I used to save all my TAS magazines many years ago.  Maybe the very earliest ones are worth keeping for nostalgia or collector purposes.  I freed myself psychologically by discarding them.  I am not the "collector" type - if something has value I keep it, otherwise, it goes.  So, I keep the most recent couple of issues of each magazine I subscribe to and toss the rest.

What to do with old audio magazines? Put them into medium size cardboard boxes and place the boxes in room corners. Instant Tube Traps. Yeah!

I had hundreds of TAS, Stereophile, Audiophile Voice, Stereo Review, High Fidelity and the supplemental annual catalogs of "Recommended Components" from several of the magazines. I put them in boxes and sold them at a garage sale for a tiny fraction of their cost to me. A woman bought them for her husband, who had recently retired, saying "He needs a hobby!"

I keep the few that I might think have some reference value. If they have reviews of items I sell here on Audiogon, I usually include them in the packing to the buyer.