Goal for the Day: Purge Your Periodicals

Newspapers, magazines, catalogs and brochures come into our homes every day. Usually, we have little time to flip through them, let alone actually read them. And, so, they pile up—awaiting the moment when you can actually pause to look at them.


If you’ve got a stack of magazines sitting in your living room or in your office, take a moment to sort through them. Have you read them? Will you actually have time to read them? Is there any reason you’d want to keep a particular one?

Realistically decide what you want to keep. If there’s an article, a photo or a recipe in a particular magazine that you like or would wish to see again, file it away. If not, it’s best to recycle that magazine just to purge your home of that accumulated clutter.

One way of recycling magazines is to bring them to your doctor’s office, a local nursing home or other organization that could use them. Just make sure to remove the address label or mark out your name and address from the cover. Not only would you be freeing up space in your home, you would be providing a much-needed service.