I LOVE magazines.I subscribe to...5? 6? Something like that. And that's not counting the ones I buy off the newsstand when they strike my fancy. While I thoroughly enjoy reading these periodicals and would never give them up, they do present some problems.
First of all, there's a lot of them and they take up tons of space. I mean, I have five years worth of issues stacked up in boxes, which are sitting in the middle of the room. This is not an acceptable storage option. Also, it's impossible to find the article or recipe that you're looking for unless you have a photographic memory. What's the use of keeping all these magazines if you don't know what you're looking for? Finally, you do get a bit of Eco-guilt if, like me, you're trying to live a greener lifestyle.
Solution? Well, there are two options, really. You could get a photo album or binder and keep cut out articles and pictures, but that only solves two of the problems. Yes, the binders take up much less space and you can recycle the unused portions of the magazines, but it's still darn hard to find anything when you need it. The better solution is to use your scanner to save the articles onto your computer. That way, you can tag and label the articles so that you can find them simply by searching your documents.
Think of it this way: let's say you have a couple of chicken breasts and need one of your many chicken recipes. You could search through a bunch of magazines and binders. OR you could simply type "Chicken" into the search field and see all of your recipes pop up. It's a wonderful thing.
I save the articles into one of four general folders, Recipes, Holidays, Home, and Personal Care. Then I broke them down into more specific ones. I also copy and paste recipes and tips from websites into word documents (along with a link to the source) and scan pages from my favorite cookbooks so that all my recipes are in one place.
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