[Closed] Uses for old magazines - ideas?

eBay, gumtree, Freecycle or enthusiast groups?

Schools- art departments might use them for collages

Bog roll, the 4th wave approaches.

Make a body for my papier mache elephant head

I'd be interested in the scale modelling ones 🙂

After hoarding them since ~1983, mine went in the recycling. They're all online now anyway.

Any 'adult' magazines that you have should be distributed in hedgerows.

Any ‘adult’ magazines that you have should be distributed in hedgerows.

Damn, beat me to it.

Get a load of clear resin and make a cool coffee table using your favourite mag covers.

Lols at Peekay. I think some of the climbing mags might find a second home as they have some great pictures. I suspect the aircraft modelling ones are probably a bit too (ahem) ‘specialist’..

Any ‘adult’ magazines that you have should be distributed in hedgerows.

I've got a theory that the decline of hedge porn is related to the increase in intensive farming. Hedgerows get rooted up and porn loses its natural habitat.

It's sad but inevitable the demise of mags. Online isn't the same. Sound like an old git there I know. I went from being sent the Dandy in a cardboard tube from grandparents as a kid, which progressed to 2000AD, then subs to dance music mags in the 90's. Somebody bought me a mag subscription for Christmas. I was eagerly waiting and when it didn't show up I asked the gifter where it bloody well is?!. Apparently they got an email to say print magazines have been discontinued due to dwindling sales. Sad times ;(

They'll prob come back in a few years as "vintage, retro". Somebody dressed like a victorian engineer sat outside a coffee shop reading a copy of Loaded.

This is of interest to me. After my dad died I found his stash of "adult interest" magazines that are all mint and don't look like they've been touched since the 80s (fnar). Mulling selling them on eBay as there aren't any large hedges near me.

Big collage on wall or ceiling and varnish it?

Or

Shitload of ransom letters using random letters.

This is of interest to me. After my dad died I found his stash of “adult interest” magazines that are all mint and don’t look like they’ve been touched since the 80s (fnar). Mulling selling them on eBay as there aren’t any large hedges near me.

As children in the 80's, on our way to school, we once spotted a parcel left on somebody's doorstep which we promptly stole. Turned out to be a stack of seriously hardcore European grumble mags. So we set about selling them at school for £2 each. They flew out like hot cakes! Until we got caught. I still remember the feeling of confusion sat in the headmaster's office as he tried to find the words to reprimand us whilst stifling his laughter and praising our 'entrepreneurial spirit' etc etc. We thought we were in for it! He didn't even get our parents in. Just confiscated our 'stock'. Hmmm....

Turned out to be a stack of seriously hardcore European grumble mags. So we set about selling them at school for £2 each.

Sounds like my mate John who has variously been known as Honest John for his deal making abilities in which he always seems to come out on top - even among those who knew him and Blue John for the reason you state.

I think if we were kids now he would be the one in the school yard knocking out VPN access for a fiver a pop to access the less salubrious areas of the web without parents knowing.

Top bloke, my oldest friend and about the only person from my early childhood I am still in touch with...

Hmmm, so you're saying I should go to the local school playground and sell the Auld Fella's old grot magazines?

@dannybgoode - every school has a pron baron. Ours had an endless stream of mags stolen from his big brother and some tapes that were widely borrowed. He was basically a filthy, analogue Netflix.