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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Oct 09 2006 : 07:07:42 AM
Does anyone have any ideas for donating magazines? I've been receiving (for about 4 years now) Country Living, Country Home, Midwest Living, and Cooking Light and now I'm getting Blueprint. I don't think I'll renew my Cooking Light, but that hardly ends the issue! My husband is a musician, and a history nut and he has a ton of National Geographics lying around and he finally got rid of his "MOJO" collection (all 150 of them)-- he took them to a recording studio lobby! I would like to keep a couple, but can't possibly keep them all. There's just no room (see my post on organization :).
Have any of you had any luck donating them to charitable organizations, nursing homes or hospitals? I hate to just throw them out, but if that's what has to be done, I guess I will....
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 08:51:16 AM
Ok girls--took 70 magazines over to the nursing home, along with the last of the seasons' roses. I had enough roses for a couple of nice bouquets, and I had a few thrift store vases, so I asked the receptionist to give them to a resident who might not get any visitors, or put them in the lobby area. They were really happy to get the magazines, and she seemed really touched that someone would think of them. So, it's a win/win. And let me tell you how absolutely liberating it was to get them out of the house!!! I also took a load of things to Goodwill, but I always counteract my donation by going right in and shopping after I drop off my donation!!! I guess I could look at it like I'm donating in two different ways. Yeah. That's the way I'll look at it  Thanks for all of your great suggestions!
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| brightmeadow |
Posted - Oct 11 2006 : 6:17:33 PM
Teachers like old magazines for having the kids cut them up to make collages for anything from Art projects to English.
Sell them on eBay- you might be amazed how much you can get especially if any are old. I am amazed at the people who actually cut up really old magazines and sell them page by page!
Your idea of hospitals and nursing homes is a good one. How about the social security office? Department of Motor Vehicles? (Secretary of State for Michiganders) The lobby of the courthouse? the Bank loan office? Anywhere else where "important" people make lower-ranking citizens wait their turn...LOL
How about country/rural schools or libraries? They usually seem to have lower per-pupil or per-resident budgets than the bigger city ones.
And I think Rodale's magazines (prevention, Organic Gardening, etc.) had an exchange program with gardeners in Russia at one time, don't know if they still do. Your church missionary committee might have contacts overseas in other countries who could really use them to teach English. Who knows you could pick up an interesting pen pal!
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| ida |
Posted - Oct 11 2006 : 5:23:37 PM
Hi! My sister who lives with us gets services through MRDD. The workshop where she works is always looking for old magazines for the clients to flip through when there is no piece work to do. Hope that helps!
Ida
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| ali2583 |
Posted - Oct 10 2006 : 3:12:36 PM
Hi Jonni,
Do you or your hubby work outside the home? I took some old magazines of mine into work the other day, and they were gone before I knew it.
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| BarefootGoatGirl |
Posted - Oct 09 2006 : 1:10:54 PM
Our local library keeps a box for old magazines. It is open to anybody to give or take.
Trina
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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Oct 09 2006 : 11:56:57 AM
hospitals and clinics love them.
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Oct 09 2006 : 11:41:37 AM
you can always donate them to goodwill or salvation army. i've done that before.
you can also SELL magazines like that to antiques dealers .. i sell mine in the shoppe for a dollar each .. so even if you got .25 or .50 each for them .. that will give you some money to DONATE to the organization of your choice .. and all charitable causes take MONEY!
True Friends, Frannie
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KENTUCKY
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Oct 09 2006 : 10:55:46 AM
OK, so I just phoned my local womens shelter (it's a little of everything, but mostly for abused women and children, and the woman I spoke to who handles donations "no thanks"...they didn't want any magazines--She wasn't overly friendly--so I called a nursing home that I know well, and they were thrilled....Go figure?! At least I found a place that's better than the garbage, because it's not like I can recycle them.
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Oct 09 2006 : 10:29:45 AM
These are all great ideas--I especially like the one about the womens shelter and senior citizens centers. If anyone needs a little light in their lives, it's them! I'll give a call around and see what I can come up with. I'll let you know--thanks, ladies!
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| karlanee |
Posted - Oct 09 2006 : 10:23:55 AM
I recently started donating my old magazines to our local Women's Shelter. The women there are in hiding from an abusive partner. I am not allowed to know where it is, but came in contact with a volunteer that takes my magazines. I met her on my FreeCycle group. |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Oct 09 2006 : 10:03:40 AM
You could give them to senior citizen homes,womens shelters, and like Jonnie said your Library, ours sells them for like .50 cents toward their Library fund.
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Oct 09 2006 : 07:42:52 AM
I am an art teacher and I LOVE to get used magazines! Great for collages etc. I bet your local art teacher would really appreciate! I like to use the National Geographic with my older kids. Sometimes the pictures are a little inappropriate for the younger ones.
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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Oct 09 2006 : 07:27:55 AM
check your local library or schools. They can always use magazines.
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