naptime project {take 1}

When I'm at home with Nora --- which I have been quite a bit this month due to snow days --- I try to take advantage of her nap times to get a few things done.  Her morning naps are on the shorter side, around an hour or so but usually her afternoon stretch a bit longer to anywhere from two to two and a half hours.  That is a good chunk of time time to cross some things off the to-do list.  Sometimes I'll clean, throw clothes in the dryer, blog, and when I'm feeling like I have nothing else that needs to be done, read.  Magazines are honestly the easiest thing for me to read these days.  They're quick and I can put them down and pick them up without having to recall what I had previously read.  I actually get quite a few magazines too so keeping up with them is a task in itself.

One of my favorite magazines is Real Simple.  I have always loved this magazines from its organizational tips to its advice to its recipes.  I always look forward to seeing this one arrive in the mail.  Something I started doing a couple of years ago was keeping an inspiration file.  It's nothing elaborate - just an accordion file but I have it organized so I can stash articles or pictures that strike me and know I'll want to read or see again.  And I have gone back to the file so I'm pleased that this project is a success.

It had been a LONG time since I had updated the file.  My magazine basket was overflowing and I have magazines dating back to September of 2009.  Time to skim, tear, and file.  This was my naptime project last week during a snow day.

What do you do with old magazines?  Toss or recycle?  Maybe pass on to someone else?  Do any of you skim and tear and save for another day?  Do tell!