please

as many of you know I'm a total packrat and never get rid of anything, including magazines (super 7, hyper hobby, various horror mags old and new, etc.)

I have a couple of magazine sized comic boxes where I put them with bags and boards, but I was wondering if there is a better way to have them take up less space but still be protected.

I don't need to get in and out of them often, just every now and again to put newer issues away and maybe reference something older.

any suggestions will be appreciated

thanks!

standing upright like that is going to be the way to take up the least about of space i would imagine

you can get short comic boxes if the long ones are just too big

but if you are worried about their condition, i would only store them upright as the magazines will like to curl from the weight if they are stacked lying on top of one another

we use these types of files for magazines. keeps them upright and you can label the outside spine.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categ ... 366/10567/

they sell them elsewhere too...i can't remember where we got them.

yeah, missy is always trying to get me to buy those. the thing is, I would fill so many of them so fast.

I think my wife has used cereal boxes. Cut off a chunk diagonally so you can see the spines.

Oh yeah, kinda like the things atease linked to. I think you have to use large cereal boxes. Hell, maybe they weren't even cereal boxes, I dunno...

yeah those ikea boxes are cool, but once you have 20 magazines or so in it, it's full. you could fill up a bookshelf in no time and that wont save any space

I use those big rectangular plastic storage bins they sell at Target (the totally squared-off transparent ones). They don't keep the mags the most secure in terms of shifting & sliding, but provided you keep them in one place that shouldn't matter too much. Plus, they're stackable, and you can fit a shitload of mags in each one (of course, then they weigh a fucking ton, as I found out when I moved recently).

I've never had a problem with mags being damaged by being stacked flat, and I've had some of these for literally decades. Just have to make sure the stacks are made up of similar-sized mags.

go here and study:

http://www.memoryskills.com.au/page%20ten.htm

then throw away all your magazines...problem solved...BOOM!

But I like to read in the bathroom, not rely on my memory!

so they go from the bathroom back to being stored? man those are gonna have HEAVY bathroom stink on 'em when you look at them again in 2015!

dude, it's about having the stuff. it's not all about the information contained within, although that's good too. it's about the magazines themselves!

in another 5 years you'll be able to download your thoughts/memories onto cards or discs and that can be your "stuff"...BOOM!

no way, I'm a luddite. I want paper products.

Luddites forever! (I feel wrong typing that on a computer...)
Still no cell phone for me. I wish I didn't even have a regular phone.

I'm living your dreams.

No cell phone. No regular phone.
Haven't owned a phone for the last four years.
If I have to call in sick to work, I have to walk a couple blocks to a payphone.

That blows my mind!

congrats, not sure if I could manage.

That. Is. Awesome.

I'm not that much of a luddite. I totally have all kinds of electronics.

but that doesn't mean that I don't value books, which I feel that most people unfortunately don't in this digital age

I appreciate the "instant" nature of digital stuff, but you can't beat a good old book or magazine or comic, any form of paper really.

and I love the way old paper smells

i love the smell at the library

Smelly bums?

nah libraries here in the south are most often small, contain old books and have no people inside reading

If you use the comic boxes, some of them come with a light spray to discourage bugs. And since most older magazines use pulp paper of inferior quality, bugs love to chew on it.

I might suggest you use mylars, mylites, or heavy magazine bags. Standing them upright if valuable, otherwise laid down doesn't do too much harm if not too heavy a load.

You can also store a few together in the comic bags if made of the same material, if you want to keep cost down. Light exposure is your worst friend. The less the better. Think of them as Gothic femme fatales.