I’ve got a whole bookcase full of National Geographic magazines. Issues range from the 1970’s -present. I don’t suspect they’re worth even much even to collectors. I hate to just throw them out but at the same time they’re just gathering dust and taking up valuable shelf space.
What should I do with them?
Salvation Army or a convenient dumpster. Trust me, nobody wants old magazines, and I’ve tried. Unless it’s a very rare issue, like the Marilyn Playboy, or a very old Nat Geo from the 1900s, it’s a lost cause.
Put them on eBay. Someone will want them.
Somewhere, I have an issue from 1968 or 1969 that has an article in it about the grunion run. There’s a picture in it of a guy who would much later be my high school biology teacher. And I’ve actually been to a grunion run.
Were you able to successfully prevent the invasion?
Yeah, they kept falling off of their little boats.
Salvation army. I buy old -but not-too-old issues occasionally for bathroom reading material. When I’m struck by a particular story, I look up how the current situation is now, and if the NHM’s predictions came true.
Schools with art programs might like them-- I remember them being great for collage materials.
At the very least, I should think they could be recycled. But whatever the OP decides, do it quickly before the continent is doomed!
Leave them in a convenient wooded area. They will complete their life cycle entering their pupae stage as pr0n mags and eventually emerge as fully grown VHS and DVD pr0n!
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eBay or an art center. Collage artists and book makers love them- they partially dissolve the ink with Citrasolve to make cool designs.
In 1984, there was an article with early scanning electron microscope images of macrophages eating germs. Go look at that article for me before you get rid of it. I spent a lot of time looking at it as a kid.
You can look at eBay sold/completed items to see if anything is salable–and there might be issues on highly specialized subjects which might be. For example do you have the May, 2016 issue on Yellowstone: Battle for the the American West or the June 1985 issue showing the Afghan girl?
Here are sold issues from 1980 (you can modify the search to also get 1940-1979 issues):
But I would check out say a nursing home to see if they could use them: National Geographics were much more popular with the older generation than they are currently.
Old magazines, eh? Donate them to a doctor or dentist for their waiting rooms.
I’d contact a school (any school, from elementary through college) and ask if they want them, or your library. It’s always possible that they have some missing issues that they need for their archive. If they want them, most likely it would be for art classes unless the issues are very recent.
This sounds like he best idea mentioned yet.
I came in here to suggest this. Also, does your town have a community center for retired folks? That’s another place you could take them.
It was not easy. We almost ran out of ammo, but Granny Clampett was passing out Elly Mae’s ladyfingers for our guns.
Just don’t donate them to hospital’s waiting lounges. I was taking a break in the coffee lounge while my (then)wife was was in labor in 2002 and picked up a Nat Geo. I begin to flip through the pages and hit an ad for this wild, new, crazy audio technology called the Compact Disc. WTF? I flip back to the cover, publication date: 1983.
Now this is a great plan - go to various medical/dental offices and drop off a copy or two. Check back a few weeks later and see if they are still there.
Might even make a study for some graduate student in a discipline that doesn’t come immediately to mind.
What’s the problem?