Ideas for recycling evangelizing magazines

[donanobis]

Does anyone have any ideas about how one can recycle outdated (includes the last month’s) issues of Catholic/Christian magazines? Many of them have a lot of good information.

Our church as well as so many other churches in the area have removed the book racks so what to do with them??. Know anyone who could use them? Sell them on EBAY? ???

Magazines such as Magnificat, Celebrate Life (ALL), Latin Mass, American Family Association, etc, etc.

While you have your thinking caps on, perhaps someone would know how to recycle, find a use for, used religious greeting cards? (they are getting rarer every year).

There use to be a place that you could send them that used them in creative projects but I think they are not accepting them anymore because it was such a success they got inundated.

thanks for any ideas…

dona

dona

 

[Catholic1954]

You could drop off the magazines off at your local nursing home or hospital or donate them to a Catholic school library. My parish recycles the Christmas cards by using them for the “ornaments” on the giving tree for the next year.

 

[aspirant]

You could drop off the magazines off at your local nursing home or hospital or donate them to a Catholic school library.

All of these are good ideas. You might also take them to a parish that does have a book rack, take them to a parish that has an adoration chapel, or ask about donating them to a prison ministry (Catholic prisoners are often desperate for Catholic Bibles, Catechisms, and other Catholic reading material).

 

[Joannm]

All of these are good ideas. You might also take them to a parish that does have a book rack, take them to a parish that has an adoration chapel, or ask about donating them to a prison ministry (Catholic prisoners are often desperate for Catholic Bibles, Catechisms, and other Catholic reading material).

We don’t like it when people bring their old magazines and cards to put in our parish book rack. It really creates a mess as we have our own subscriptions and books to put in the rack. We even have a sign that says any unauthorized materials will be removed but still they put them in. The other day I was going to the book rack to put in our newest shipment of magazines and the rack was full with old magazines dated to 2004. Needless to say I removed them all. Better to donate them to a nursing home or to a prison (I am told they really appreciate them). Also with regard to old magazines…some of them might not be of the caliber that we want in our book rack. The same with donating books to our parish library. Some people just go down there and dump their boxes of old books and so often we have to just get rid of most of them.

 

[donanobis]

All of these are good ideas. You might also take them to a parish that does have a book rack, take them to a parish that has an adoration chapel, or ask about donating them to a prison ministry (Catholic prisoners are often desperate for Catholic Bibles, Catechisms, and other Catholic reading material).

Great ideas, thanks. Especially about donating to the prison ministry.

 

[donanobis]

You could drop off the magazines off at your local nursing home or hospital or donate them to a Catholic school library. My parish recycles the Christmas cards by using them for the “ornaments” on the giving tree for the next year.

Great idea about the ornaments. I’ll ask around. and the medical facilities for the magazines.

 

[donanobis]

We don’t like it when people bring their old magazines and cards to put in our parish book rack. It really creates a mess as we have our own subscriptions and books to put in the rack. Also with regard to old magazines…some of them might not be of the caliber that we want in our book rack. The same with donating books to our parish library.

Thanks for the information. I hear you about the book racks but think you should try to find a good home for those old magazines. As far as the caliber of the magazines in the rack, one person’s junk is another person’s treasure, spelled junque. I’m not sure what caliber you disapprove of. I love pre 1960 books and others detest them.

Maybe a box with unwanted ‘old’ Catholic magazines and books could be made available and advertised as available for a certain limited amount of time and discarded or redistributed/recycled after that. As far as what to put in that box as to the ‘caliber’ of the contents would have to be a judgment call of the person in charge of that detail.

A LOT of people, especially the elderly cannot afford magazine subscriptions and might appreciate it.