| If you want to start your own charity, you do | | | | where magazines are welcome. For instance, if |
| not have to be a millionaire - or even have | | | | you give your magazines to the fire station, then |
| expendable income. All you need is some | | | | the people who spend long hours there waiting for |
| magazines and a desire to do good for others. | | | | emergency calls will have plenty of free reading |
| Most of us have a favorite magazine, or even | | | | material. Or you can box them up and ship them |
| several, that we subscribe to for recreational | | | | to a soldier stationed overseas, give them to a |
| reading or to keep track of the news or things | | | | college student, or even donate them to a local |
| going on in the business world. When we finish | | | | library or school. |
| reading them, some of us want to be able to | | | | Before giving away you old magazines, it is a |
| recycle the paper, but many kinds of colored | | | | good idea to use a marker pen to delete the |
| paper are not very suitable for typical recycling | | | | subscriber info, for security purposes. And be |
| programs. Newsprint - the paper newspapers are | | | | sure to keep your magazines in good shape, |
| made out of - is much easier to incorporate into | | | | rather than using them for coffee cup coasters |
| environmentally friendly recycling programs. | | | | or other purposes that will mark or stain them. Of |
| But you can recycle in a different way, by | | | | course you may come across issues of |
| passing your magazines along to another reader. | | | | magazines and decide to keep them, which is fine. |
| It works in the same way that hand-me-down | | | | Just box the ones you want to give away in one |
| clothing works, except that magazines usually are | | | | spot, and each month you can take the recycle |
| more fun to receive, especially if you pass them | | | | box to your favorite charity. |
| along quickly while they are still current. Buy or | | | | The more you give, the better you'll feel, because |
| subscribe to your magazines, keep them for a | | | | not only will you be helping the environment by |
| while and read them, and then pass them on to a | | | | not being wasteful, you'll be turning on other |
| neighbor. | | | | people to entertaining, informative, or otherwise |
| One good way to distribute our leftover reading | | | | useful and valuable magazines that they might |
| material is to take the magazines and give them | | | | otherwise not be able to read. |
| to a doctor's office, a fire station, or other places | | | | |
