Spring Cleaning: Surprising Finds

Finally cleared the small bookshelf after three days of looking through the magazines and books. I felt so good after clearing the shelves as I just keep those magazines that are inspiring and interesting. I normally look through all magazines first and just tear away those advertisement pages or anything not relevant. I find Home & Decor and SquareRooms magazines great with interesting and informative content so I still keep some of the magazines. Home & Decor is no longer available monthly but now they have annual magazines on different parts of the home like living room and bedroom editions. In a way I think is good as I realise that most of the topics are quite similar like floor tiles comparison, types of kitchen layouts or different styles. I can also save money.

While flipping through the pages of magazines I saw some interesting information as shown below. I also rediscovered some great magazines that are no longer in print and cease publication like Simply Her and Vanilla.

I still keep Elle magazine as it has interesting idea whereby you can change the costumes of the model by turning the pages. 

I love hardcopy books and magazines as I find reading online unhealthy for eyes. It is better to have hardcopy magazine as information is kept intact. Sometimes information might be removed online or magazine might just cease publication.

The pages are divided to 3 parts so you can change the costumes of the model. Very interesting and good idea. I value this magazine as it involved more processes to produce and this is the only magazine I see so far with this interesting concept and implementation. 

This is from Home & Decor magazine 2007 on the HDB flats prices in various parts of Singapore. What is the price difference now?

Should I throw this book away? Papers have turned yellow. 

Very messy.

All these magazines are no longer in print except for Home & Decor.

These magazines are no longer available. I find the content quite inspiring and interesting so I still keep a few copies. Anyway they are no longer available so you can't buy these female magazines.