What can I do with all these magazines?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So- I was putting my packing boxes in the attic of my new apartment, and I happened to spy a rack of old National Geographics. I look into the other room- Life magazines, bound up to be thrown out. Life magazines from 1950 to 1972. Over 1000 of them. :eek: Every time I look, I find more. The landlords were pack rats when they lived there. I also have tons of 40’s and 50’s McCall’s, Good Housekeepings, and Living for the Young Homeowner. I found a bunch of movie magazines from the 40’s and 50’s, one with the life story of Marilyn Monroe including pinup.

What can I do with all these magazines? The landlords don’t want them, not all of them will fetch a price, and I have probably 1500 magazines up there! What I have:

A HUGE amount of Life magazines weekly from 1950 to 1972, covering all the historical events of the day.

Good Housekeeping, intermittent from the early forties to the late sixties (including Christmas issues from 49 and 50)

Living for the Young Homeowner, 1950’s

Random McCalls, Redbook, and Mademoiselle from the same time period.

Movie magazines from the forties, with cover stories on stars of the day.

Any ideas, fellow Dopers? Anyone interested in buying any? I can see if we have any particualar ones you are interested in.

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Find English and Social Studies teachers in your area. They will likely love to have historical magazines like those.

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The movie magazines and Lifes still have some value to collectors. You’re not near Hershey, Pa., are you? I’d take 'em off your hands.

The National Geographics are probably not valuable, if they’re in the same range as the Lifes. Even libraries in my area won’t take 'em for resale. The rest of them are probably not valuable either, unless someone has a real fetish for the '50s (and they are out there).

Best suggestion would be to dump 'em on ebay. Sell 'em as a bundle, start 'em at a dollar plus postage and see where they go.

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I’m in Shippensburg, pesch, so if you give me time to sort them, I can get back to you on those. I’m going to Ebay some of the more historically famous ones (JFK assassination, moon landing, stuff like that.).

Give me some time- 1000+ magazines might take a little while to catalogue and sort. I think there might be more under the piles of old newspapers yet…

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1940’s - 70’s huh?
Donate them to your local doctor’s/dentist’s office so they can have something a little more recent in the waiting room?

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Your friendly neighborhood art teacher might want them. The pictures can be nice for collages and such.

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If you want to haul the National Geographics to the Dopefest next month, I will gladly take them for you. I love to read the old ones.

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Give the Nat geo’s to your local school. Junior department.