Even though the death of printed material is repeatedly announced, magazines continue to be published, and it even seems that the number is at least holding steady if not increasing. Especially if you have a hobby or special interest. There seems to be as many magazines published for those as ever before, and magazines are still the best way to learn about hobbies or special interests in a timely manner. So, subscriptions and magazine storage continue. Where to put the magazines you haven’t read yet? A magazine rack next to your favorite recliner.

Magazines racks, properly designed, keep your magazines tidy, uncrinkled and at hand for those few moments of relaxation when you have a choice of amusements (or commercials during your favorite TV shows). A good magazine rack allows room for the full length of the magazine and allows it to stand or lay flat, without curling the corners. A good magazine rack will hold a dozen issues of the standard size for magazines, which are about 8 by 10 inches. If you get larger magazines, you may have to look around for magazine racks that will hold them neatly and unrumpled. Take one with you when you look for a rack, or, better yet, a piece of cardboard the same size as the magazine. If you take cardboard and accidentally leave it somewhere, no big loss, whereas the loss of an issue of the magazine may be heartfelt.

Magazine racks are usually made of wood or metal. There are metal racks that store the magazines rolled and look like wine bottle racks, but I don’t think rolling the magazine is very good for it and rolled they take more room. Efficiency says that flat storage is optimal. Once you have read each issue, and if you want to keep it, you may want to store it in magazine storage boxes, but putting it away before you read it means you probably never will. Therefore the rack, holding magazines to be read.

A magazine rack with a handle can be useful if your reading spot moves. Then the rack is easy to take with you. Magazine racks of less valued magazines can be a source of amusement for youngsters, and the rack moved to them if it has a handle. A magazine rack with special interest magazines can also be a source of gift ideas for someone who loves you and is pressed for something you might like. Magazines with your hobbies and interests are a good source for sharing your interests with others, especially younger family members. In all these cases, having a few magazines to hand will make the magazine rack worth its space and cost.

There are other uses for magazine racks. A wall mounted magazine rack need your front door can be the repository for the mail and newspapers until someone gets around to distributing them to the interested parties. Wall mount magazine racks are also useful in bathrooms, holding not just reading material, but bottles of shampoo or mouthwash at convenient places, but also holding hair brushes, blow dryers, tubes of hand lotion or other items you want off the counter top. A conveniently places magazine rack beside any door can be a good place to put the room’s ingoing and outgoing items for delivery the next time someone goes by.

Magazine racks are useful for their intended purposes, but can also hold other things where they are most needed or as a distribution system. One in every room can be used to place things that belong elsewhere near the door and one step closer to where they below. Grab the contents as you go by and get them to their appointed place in record time.

* * * Store magazines for future use in magazine holders. * * *

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