About 30 seconds.
I still have mine since 1999, every other magazine I throw out…not sure why I hang onto the Tri mags…
I subscribe to about a dozen mags, all paper, no digital. Once you buy about four of the shelf you work out ahead if you subscribe. I have a system to eliminate the old ones. In my office i keep stacks of all of the old issues, currently my tallest stack is Road. I keep that the longest because it has great training articles and great photography. As time passes i thin the stacks, starting with the oldest and i usually throw out six at a time.
One caveat, i keep the Triathlete swimsuit issues, and open them and buy something from the advertisers about once a month.
Okay…now I know I have issues (literally and figuratively)…pretty sure I have almost every issue going back to some time around 1987 or so. Fun every once in a while to pick up an oldie and see how things have changed though.
I’m proud to say I clipped a few articles and recycled about 30 mags last month (I have 4 mag subscriptions total, 2 tri mags, 2 others), so I still have 20 kicking around, mostly 2011 issues.
I fight against my hoarding tendency. I’m proud to say we can park both cars in our garage and there is still plenty of space for 5 bikes and other stuff. The garage is a regular 2-car garage.
I keep the January issue from every year. For historical purposes.
I have a 1991 triathlon magazine, which has an article on my first 140.6 triathlon. Paula Newby-Frasier is on the cover. I cherish it!
That’s great! I’m a bit of a pack rat too, mostly with magazines. I now go with the theory of, read it and toss it, you can always find it again online if you need to. 
I should start leaving them at my massage therapist or gym to help build the interest in the sport.
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Never thought of this one. Thanks for the idea!
Let’s put it this way: I have issues of Tri-Athlete magazine, Triathlon Today & Triathlon Times (Tri-Fed’s publication 20+ years ago). I may even still have issues of The Plant Report too.
I keep them long enough to read then pass them along to someone who most likely keeps them for decades…
Often wondered why. Just what’s at the bottom of the paper mountain?
I know I inherited the obnoxiously burdensome packrat gene from my father, which is why I still have every tri magazine (U.S., Canadian, British, Australian) I have bought since 2000. Of course, they are completely unlooked-at, and serve no other purpose than mildew-collectors, or potential ballast.
Just curious, though, as to how many others hold onto this stuff forever, maybe just because you might need that article on tempo-running from 2003…or something like that. Ack!
Get rid of the now as they are a fire hazard! If you are not reading them, toss them in the recycle bin or give them to some bike shops but don’t keep them.
I rip out pages with good articles and either three hole punch, or put them in page protectors in a binder.
no use to keep the whoel magazine if 95% is advertisements. so in a magazine i’ll maybe keep 1-2 articles or pages, more costly then just saving a whole magazine, but it is space-saving and easier to find what you need
About 10-15 minutes. I flip through them. Read the one (maybe two) article(s) that are mildly interesting. Then toss.
the only one i kept for the last 25 years, is the one i am in, (center fold) modeling .
other wise i stop buying them 10 years ago, same crap every month
I do the exact thing! I bet we are not alone…
About 30 seconds.
This SHOCKS me, Emilio. And it even hurts a little. I actually used to count up all the original De Soto tri-shorts age group photo appearances in *Triathlon *and Triathlete Magazines to chronicle your mastery of grassroots marketing. I even sent you an e-mail about it a long time ago. Even though you really have the big time (in multisport circles) it’s still cool to remember back where you came from.
Do those that keep articles ever go back and read them? I always consider keeping good articles, but figure it is not worth the hassle.
forever!
Hey Mark,
My man, my intention was not to hurt you nor anyone, it is just a joke. If you knew me personally, you would know that this is my dry humor coming out. Think Seth Myers or Jimmy Fallon doing Weekend Update on SNL. Truth is, I read about 7 different tri mags including the German and Spanish ones from cover to cover. After 30 years, I still bleed triathlon. The 30 seconds has more to do with my toilet time as this is where I get my best reading.
I suppose I am realizing that while others on ST can joke about things, I might be better off just not doing so.
Again, my apologies.
PS: Call my office and ask my staff what it is that blocks the walkway to my office. They will tell you it is boxes of tri mags I cannot get rid of.