I moved into a new apartment in the last few months and am finally getting around to putting my "car room" as my mother calls it together and I'm wondering for guys who have magazines how do you store or display your little pages? I think I've seen little holders for them but where go you find them?
At one time I used Tide washing power boxes to store magazine, but those days are over since they changed the packaging, the good thing about the Tide boxes is the magazines didn't have a musty smell, they had a pleasing smell like washing powders. HRP
I used to keep mine on a bookshelf like the pic above, but when I moved it was a pain to pack/unpack them. Now I keep them in lined milk crates if they ever need to be moved just grab and go. plus they can be re-stacked to fit any space.
Hello, I used to have a good amount of old Hot Rod+R/C + other old magazines we used to buy at the corner store. They began to grow as we stacked them on the bookcase over our desks. Then as other things took over, the magazines got their place in a box. One box led to another and so on for years. It got to be an "old paper" aroma in our house where the magazines were on the bookshelves. Musty and probably dusty, thrown in there somewhere. Once going outside of the slider door, the aroma was fresh, but, where the rows of magazines were stacked, old, "mildewy" aroma. Our sharp nose, aroma spotting mom, always commented about moving them to the garage or backyard garage. By the time we were able to get an apartment, the boxes were so full and my brother did not want any of them. So, they sat in our apartment closet. Then when we got access to the dinky car + half garage, they got shoved to the back of the storage platform. The first house we were able to buy had a carport, so those boxes were not going to stay outside. Now, another extra closet took up the boxes stacked high. Not the best use of closet space. They endured the closet and we lost valuable space for jackets and other extras we wore, but not during the whole year. We all know women and separate styles as per season. When we bought our second house many years later, the boxes took up two garage lower shelves in the small garage. So, one day, a neighborhood kid came by and wanted to know if we had any magazines. He was trying to collect them as he liked cars, but had none, due to the cost of each magazine. So, a bright idea came and I sent with him, three boxes of old magazines I had stored since the 50s. His face was obviously surprised and it solved two things. One, this neighborhood kid now had a great start for a hot rod magazine collection. Plus, a whole collection of my stories in the later motorcycle and hot rod magazines. He was impressed to see my name as author of several stories and additional “staff.” My wife had been after me to get rid of the magazines taking up closet space, so I thought the garage shelves were ok. They were, but, now, I wanted more space for items I was using almost daily, surfboard supplies, skateboard parts, blank custom boards, boxes of parts and a stack of custom handle bars. Plus, I had not looked at any of the magazines for years. Jnaki The kid’s eyes just lit up and I loaded them in his wagon. It took three trips to take all of the boxes to his house and now, he had the largest collection of old car magazines in the whole neighborhood. Our garage now had two long lower shelves empty for more storage stuff, as we know stuff gets put away for another day or two… YRMV So, now I have one small basket with several books and thick bound magazines sitting in a stack. I do get to read them when the time is right. But, no longer several boxes of magazines taking up valuable garage space, or thumbing through each one to read an article or two. Note: I do have a collection of plastic sleeve wrapped Comic Books in 5 comic book appropriately sized boxes. That was a time when my son and I collected old comics bought at swap meets and antique stores. Plus a yearly trek to the large comic book conventions in Los Angeles. (Shrine Exhibition Hall + various hotel meeting rooms set out as a comic book sellers’ floor…) He has his own set of many boxes he has to store in a storage facility. But, my boxes have room in the cool attic with electronic devices to keep the critters away. Some of those comic books are valuable and my son wanted us to keep them. Early Spiderman, Punisher Collections and Superman antique comics are a part of those still left in the boxes. The whole collection is in individually protected sleeves made just for comics. The boxes are not the local rental shipping cartons, but ones made specifically for storing valuable comics. Several are worth more than my wife’s tiny Chromebook laptop. Ha!
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