Snip snip cut cut

I've had a subscription to Cooking Light since at least 2006, maybe longer (that was just the oldest magazine the I had in my pile).  I've moved old magazines from Boston to San Francisco to Sonoma - and collected quite a pile.  I tried various versions of organization (sorting the magazines by month and turning down corners, taking out one magazine per month and trying to use it as an inspiration) but basically I had a huge pile of old magazines in my kitchen.

So very ambitiously, I made goal #72:  Finish organizing Cooking Light magazines.

I was going to go through EVERY LAST DADGUM magazine, cut out the good parts and recycle the rest. 

Let me tell you.  This takes forever.  For. Ever.  And ever.

And looks professional and awesome.  Mhm.

And at first, my organization was just snip snip glue tape just in "chronological" order.  I thought it would be *fun* to just glance through the binder to look for food ideas.  And then I saw how much volume we were talking.  So I got to re-cut and re-tape midway through to organize by category (breakfast, type of meat, soup, etc.) which was super fun.

That's a big folder.

I'd like to thank NCIS, The Closer, L&O (all versions), The Mentalist, the Food Network, and Lucy for keeping me company these many hours.

Now, each weekend when I'm planning our meals for the week - I go to the section that we have meat for and pop out a page.  I WILL make good use of this binder, darn it!  This was seriously so much work, but I'm glad to have it organized and do feel very accomplished.  Number 72: you get a resounding CHECK!!

Any other folks with giant recipe binders?? We could trade pages!!