Entertainment For Lively Minds
Anyone want these?
These old friends have been in the loft for years. They lived by the bedside when I was single, got shifted to the spare room when the girlfriend moved in and hit the attic of ignomy about four seconds after we got back from honeymoon. Now even that's not safe, as the words 'loft conversion' have been muttered over the cornflakes so it's off to the recycling come saturday unless anyone wants to give them a good home. Or sell them for financial gain: I'm easy either way.
It's October '89 to March '05, in frankly shabby condition (torn, bent, dusty and tattered) but the writing is still as sharp as it was back in the days when rock stars still gave interviews and posed for magazine covers. In the last couple of years it all goes a bit Britney, but before that it's a Nineties treasure trove of popular culture. With silly captions.
Any takers? Get yourself to Pease Pottage Services on the M23 and they're yours.
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Thanks but..........
I have a cupboard bursting at the rafters, full of Qs. I have transported with me from flat to flat to house. I'm hoping I will move this year and they will no doubt come with me. Very now and again, when I have nothing to read, I'll pull one out at random and whatever year it is, the memories come flooding back. I buy Q now and again, but it's not the magazine it was, which is I suppose the point. Is Word the new old Q? Maybe, just a litte. I hope you find homes for the poor neglected things.
Charity shop?
When I moved to NZ, I gave a load of my old music mags to the Oxfam record shop in Reading. They seemed happy enough to take them and I saw that they put them out for sale at 49p each so you've potenitally got £88 of charitable donations there!
I did the same
"Interestingly", I do really miss my old records but I have no pangs whatsoever for the lost Q's, Vizzes, NMEs, Private Eyes, When Saturday Comes etc that I used to hoard.
A common tale
We had our loft converted a couple of years ago and this has become the storage for my Q collection.
I agreed with the Fpo that issues 1-200 would be retained.
I recycled the rest and cancelled my subscription.
Put them all in a skip...
fill with water, leave for a few days and then make a life-size papier-mâché statue of Bono.
Surely...
...that would only take two or three issues?
pile o' post-it
notes acksherly...
You'll only have
enough for his nose.
On no account try to make a lifesize papier-mache sculpture of his ego. There's not enough issues of Q out there.
If I was in the UK
I would gladly give them a new home. I miss my old Q's, if only for the mighty Tom Hibbert.
good call
on Tom
Offer
Q issues 1 to 250-ish. Free to a good home. No, belay that, free to anyone who will come and get them. Western end of the M4 in England. No time wasters (as if). MOT certificate advised.
Ditto Mojo, ditto Uncut, ditto Word. Recent HGV certification advised if all four required.
Put them all in a skip...
fill with water, leave for a few days and then make a life-size papier-mâché statue of all of U2.
Can I buy issue 1 of Q?
If they don't go and you're left with the prospect of having to hire a skip to dump them, can I buy issue 1 of Q from you?. I came across Q at issue two and to this very day there is a slight regret that after decades of half arsed searching I never got the illusive issue 1.
I live in NZ at the moment so can't pick them up (though this time last week I was visiting someone in Swindon), but I be happy to pay you a few quid for your trouble.
Not two weeks ago..
.. I was under severe pressure to "do something" with a similar pile of magazines. I did have to admit that I only looked at them during the six monthly routine of moving them to a different corner of the room.
I managed to negotiate keeping my Record Collector pile and a few selected issues from the rest - but as faced by Mr Underpants - took all mine to the recycling centre with a tear and a lingering thought that they must be worth something to someone..
I even had a quick check on ebay - but didn't have patience to go through each issue to see if it worth anything. My heart is still a little heavy - but in reality I've just gained a square meter of floor space and the joists are a little less strained.
Thanks for reminding me.
Record Collector - issues whatever to whatever - (approximately three metric tonnes of the bastards) also available to anyone with a JCB and the inclination to drive to chez Fox.
Put them all in a skip...
fill with water, leave for a few days and then make a life-size papier-mâché statue of the Grateful Dead.
including Jerry at his most rotund,
and all the Weir/Lesh/Hart offshoot bands too. And their roadies.
And then
smoke it
I think our loft-groaners
all the obvious music ones, WSC, private eyes, wife's stuff (we've got two boxes full of Metropolitan Frigging Home for a kick-off ) tons and tons of american magazines - though I'm keeping Sassy - if put in a skip ... filled with water etc. would run to life size papier-mache statues of all the ex-members of The Fall.
Is this buried in your collection?
Regardless, I can spot at least 3 brilliant reads there (89, 90) in your photo.
(centre of pic, L-R) One on the box, one on the floor, one on the sofabed
(sigh)
Recycled
All my issues of Q, Mojo and Empire went the way of the recycling bin. Now its just the last 6 months of Word that are left under the bed (I cancelled Q and Empire subscriptions a while ago). I was tough but had to be done....
I live in hope that one day we'll see a complete scanned collection available on DVD like they did with national Geographic......
Good for you and for the taker
I hope you find someone who wants them. When I was moving many years ago I donated an entire Q collection to someone who was utterly thrilled to get it. I'd realised I hadn't actually looked at an old copy for years.
I've managed to avoid hanging on to every copy of The Word, but I certainly always retain at least the past year's worth.
Good one
I had a clear out a while ago but have a new mountainette growing which I shall get rid of on Saturday. I had a few hundred guitar mags which I put on Freecycle and a 14 year old wannabe guitar hero showed up to collect them with him mum, and his delight at getting them made my day.
Freecycle
I took a look at this, with high hopes, but sadly it seems one is obliged to register with Yahoo! in order to take part; is that what you found?
Unfortunately I would rather take the skip/papier mache option than subscribe to Yahoo!
I tried to get involved with my local Freecycle a few months ago
and gave up for exactly the same reason; it seemed to work on some bizarre and convoluted mailing list scheme.
I was expecting a simple Craigslist-style website where I could just post a 'classified ad' for my free stuff/junk.
It's worth trying again
Once you've got your head around the way it works and the way they require you to format your offers, it does make complete sense - I use it fairly regularly.
Absolutely.
I have regular Freecycle binges, supplemented with charity shops. Stuff gets snaffled up in no time, and it's a much more satisfying way of having a clearout than just binning or eBaying.
We Freecycled our baby buggies to two young couples - and I mean *really* young, about 18 or 19 - who were pregnant, panicking and obviously totally skint. It's a good way to have a clearout and also have a bit of a glow about doing something nice for someone at the same time. Which might not be entirely altruistic, but fuck it.
Car boot
I have heard people say they don't want to Freecycle as the recipients then take it off to a car boot sale and flog it. Well good for them I say. If they are turning my crap into cash which they then spend in the pub I am delighted at their initiative. I have no intention of booting it myself so good luck to them.
Exactly.
I don't want the stuff, I clearly can't be arsed selling it, so why would I give a monkey's what anyone else does with it?
Easier
It's easier than that. You just email what you want to get rid of. You start the title with OFFER eg "OFFER - 200 Word magazines". that's it.
Out of interest...
Why not? They don't spam you, and Yahoo Groups is a way many people manage mailouts and mailing lists - it's a straightforward, reliable, robust service. All they're doing is requiring you to register, just as we do - managing any interactive service is impossible without being able to identify the people using it.
Freecycle
I think it is brilliant. Yes you have to register with Yahoo but you can opt for no emails or anything else. Emails etc are more useful if you are trying to acquire stuff rather than dispose of it. All you do once set up is send a regular email to a regular email address and they do the rest. People then email you if they want it. I have got rid of amazing junk which would otherwise have gone into landfill. I knocked out a vile wardrobe and drawer unit from the spare room and a woman showed up absolutely delighted as her daughter had just been allocated a flat and had no furniture. She bore it off in triumph. I got rid of a bag of spare handles for a fitted kitchen which were delivered in error to a delighted bloke who was refurbing his Mum's kitchen. I even got rid of a box of misc unmatched plates, cups, mugs and saucers to a cricket club whose pavilion had burned down and they were starting from scratch.
Helps people, avoids landfill, gets rid of crap, makes you feel good. What's not to like?
What i do is have an alternative email I use for such things which I can burn if it starts being a hassle spam wise without affecting the one my pals, business etc use.
Mine all went to the Dentists
In an attempt to improve the waiting room reading. There's only so many copies of the Beano/ Good Housekeeping/ Surrey Life you can cope with.
I would
but only if they are run by a German multi national.
You could try
Vintage Magazines in Soho if you can get them down there. I enquired about selling back copies of music mags and they usually start at 50p per issue. That could mean around £90 in your sky rocket.
minus £150
for the courier. It's six big boxes and I'm not taking that on the train.
With your mention of the services in the OP
I assumed you drove.
No to
Soho I don't. It's in that London you now. I hate driving in those Northern towns.
I find magazines go very well
at the car boot sale. I've long since given up hoarding them. I either keep for the car boot sale, sell them on eBay or bin them. Otherwise I'd be living like Mr Trebus.
I got rid of my issues of Q...
...at least 16 years ago - they went into a recycling skip. I had issue 1 as well! In fact, I had all of issues 1-100 except issue 4. You can't hang onto all this stuff, though. It just weighs you down. Wouldn't buy Q if you paid me these days. Lost interest when it became 50 Greatest Albums/50 greatest bands/blah, blah every bloody month!
MOJOs
I sold MOJOs 1 to 200 for a measly £65 or so on Ebay a few months back. At their peak, you could sell issue 1 or 2 for about £70. Now you can hardly give them away.
Freecycle is OK but I was often unreasonably miffed at the brusque emails I received and the impressive vehicles people turned up in to take stuff away (when they turned up at all, which wasn't often). At least it saved a trip to the tip.