Good, they don't list "collecting" because I am the type of person to have continued repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences. I have collections. Elephants, books, boxes, but the biggest is my magazine collection which has grown to over 500. Storage is one adverse consequence.
The sheer weight of them is another. During our 20 year period of cross country moves my husband would comment that was the last time we are moving all "those magazines". Maybe that's why we stopped moving. I refused to part with them.
Well, I never really verbally said that but I thought it. I did decide to cut back and now limit myself to purchasing special issues. Just the other day I forced myself to throw one away and I made him watch me put it in the trash can.
That particular one did not pass the test. The test is to have at least 1 article or picture that gets a bookmark. I look for decorating, craft, health, travel, cooking, self-help, gardening, photography, antiques and anything else interesting. Hard test huh? And no, I don't collect book marks. All the silly mail in offer cards that fall to the floor can be ripped into bookmarks.
There was a period of a few years when I decided to color code the bookmarks and used colored construction paper. Yellow was for food, red or green for Xmas, marble shelf paper for travel....on and on.
That may have been when I was recuperating from surgery in the late 80's. Nowadays, if I need a break I grab a magazine to update the bookmarks to sticky tags and add my current areas of interest articles. After all life changes.
Back in the sixties magazines were larger than they are today so I had trouble storing them on a shelf and did part with them. But they weren't thrown away, at least not by me. I donated them.
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