Does anybody have old magazines?

[conuly]

I’ll pay shipping costs. They just have to be picture heavy.

Hm. Maybe I should see if a local dentist or doctor was planning to weed soon….

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[isis]

My library has a free shelf of old magazines - maybe yours does, too?

[sixbeforelunch]

Came here to suggest the library also. My library asks ten cents per old magazine, which is pretty near to free, and definitely less than you'd pay for shipping.

[conuly]

Ooh, I’ll ask!

[gatheringrivers]

I'd say scrounge recycle bins, but dear gods the drama going across NextDoor about people wandering in doorbell cam range....

[conuly]

People in suburbs are wild. Something about it rots their brains -when I’m next at a computer I’ll type out The Homeschooling Forum and the Rubber Ducks story….

[gwydion]

We used to hunt garage sales for these for teacher reasons. Unfortunately, when I was going to stop teaching, I gave my precious National Geographic reserves to a younger teacher. It's the wrong time of year for garage, yard, and estate sales, but it's a good place to look when it's nicer weather.

[archersangel]

thrift stores will sometimes have them for pretty cheap.

[conuly]

That’s an idea.

[minoanmiss]

Dang, I got rid of most when I moved. I can see if I happen to have any I've changed my mind about. Do they need to be old or can you use the ones my university sends me every month?

[conuly]

They can be plenty old, so long as they're not valuable - one of the residents likes to look at magazines, and fuck if I know where most of the magazines in the home have gone. But she can't read and seems to be almost entirely nonverbal - she has a very small vocabulary of signs, but that's it. (I suspect her vocabulary is a little bit more expansive than most people realize, because most people don't bother trying to sign to her or learn the few signs she uses regularly, forcing her to resort to pointing most of the time, but even the most wildly optimistic hopes would still be pretty limited.)

[conuly]

Whoops, misread you. They can be brand new too, just so long as you don't want them.

[malada]

I must relate my magazine story.

It was late 1990s - 2000s when our engineering department had its own bathroom tucked away in the back pod- with a small stash of p0rn magazines.

I replaced them with "Ladies Home Journals"s and "Better Home and Gardens" that I got from my chiropractor's office.

No one said a word about it.

[conuly]

See, now I'm picturing somebody saying "Okay, well, I just gotta readjust what gets me off..." and running with it.

[moon_custafer]

Those furniture photos and paint-colour reviews can get pretty sensuous…

[movingfinger]

Everyone loves a recipe!

[conuly]

"This recipe is called better than sex. And gosh darn it, ain't that the truth! I never came so hard in my life!"

[movingfinger]

...any reaction to the switch from the chiropractor's patients?

[chomiji]

I have a few National Geographics if you want. I've been purging them much faster than I used to, though. (I stick them in the many Little Free Libraries around our neighborhood.)

[conuly]

So long as shipping isn’t horrifically exorbitant