Magazine Storage

January 9, 2010

We store our magazines in the bathroom (even if we don’t read them there; ok, sometimes we do). I designed this cabinet to block the view of the toilet and provide a little privacy, but also to store magazines on the toilet side.

We labeled the sections with David’s P-Touch. The top one is the inbox. When we’re both still reading that particular magazine, it’s in the inbox.

Once you’ve read it, you move it to the other person’s pile, next shelf down. The pile on the left is labeled “Marci” and the one on the right is “David.”

Once you’re done with a magazine on your pile you move it to one of the piles on the next shelf down: Library (these go to our local library’s magazine exchange and get recycled - I just grab the pile once a month) or Keep (these are things like professional magazines and eventually are taken to the office).

The system has worked really well, as long as it’s on your to-do list to take care of the piles once a month. But the to-do list is a subject for another day…

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