How long do you hold on to your sorority/fraternity magazine?

[SoCalGirl]

I'm debating getting rid of my magazines because their starting to add up. But, I don't want to regret trashing them. How long do you hold on to yours?

[honeychile]

While I'm not going to give an exact amount of years, I do have every Adelphean I've received since I was initiated. Of course, they're in a) Storage B) My mother's house or C) My house - so if I were to have to get X edition, I'd have to think real hard where it is!

I think I keep them because it was by seeing the various GLO magazines at neighbors' houses as a child and the parents talking about them that helped sell me on rushing. Greek life just looked so fascinating, and hearing about serenades, Homecomings, etc only made it sound better!

[1908Revelations]

I wouldn't know, but I am ready to get my first Ivy Leaf!!!!

[KSUViolet06]

I've only received like 9 issues so far (I joined in spring of 2004), so I haven't gotten rid of one yet. I always leave the most recent one out on my desk, and I put the older ones in my magazine rack. Once they start to pile up, I will probably just box them up and put them in my closet. I wouldn't throw them out.

[SWTXBelle]

I keep them until the next one comes - or if it is a particularly good issue (like the last one, 'cause I wrote a piece for it! ) I'll keep it for use in our Alumnae Panhellenic Informational Tea. We try to have a variety of magazines out for the PNMs to leaf through and get an idea of what membership is like.

[lauralaylin]

I've only started saving them for the past 4 years or so. I haven't really had a reason to go back to them except to look up our Educational Leadership Consultants (good to put a face with a name before they come). But I want to keep them for all of time because I love them, and I like to see my name in them now and then!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by honeychile

While I'm not going to give an exact amount of years, I do have every [one] I've received since I was initiated.

I do too. Storage isn't a super problem. It's not like they're the size of September Vogue or something.

[NUBlue&Blue]

I read it (sometimes) and throw it away.

I guess that makes me a baaaaad sister

[ISUKappa]

Originally Posted by NUBlue&Blue

I read it (sometimes) and throw it away.

I guess that makes me a baaaaad sister

For shame!

I think I've kept most of mine since being initiated, though I couldn't tell you exactly where they all are.

[polarpi]

I'm pretty sure I have all of mine since I was initiated, it's just (as others have said) WHERE they are.

Currently, I have them on my bookshelf in my room, but maybe i'll pick up some type of 'magazine box" to keep them together in

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

I have kept all of mine since I started getting heavily invovled (so since 1999). In addition, I've bought older ones off ebay. When I was packing stuff up, I didn't even consider throwing them away.

[DSTCHAOS]

I have 9 years of journals either in my book collection or packed away in a box.

[GeekyPenguin]

I toss mine pretty regularly. I think I'd only keep it if I was in the issue.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

I toss mine pretty regularly. I think I'd only keep it if I was in the issue.

Okay is that an ego problem?