Who’d think magazine holders could be so useful? Check out these 25 Inventive Ways to Organize with Magazine Holders in your kitchen, office and more!
We all use our smartphones and digital devices without thinking twice, but have you pondered about how different life was about 15 years ago? Those were the days everything was physical – shopping, paying bills, banking and of course, books and magazines!
Well, now everything has gone digital, rendering a few things obsolete, like magazine holders. Personally, I haven’t been able to adjust to eBooks or digital magazines – I still prefer holding the item in my hand and browsing through the pages. I guess my age is showing now!
Anyway, you’re also likely to have magazine holders at home collecting dust, and there’s no point in donating them since no one else has physical magazines anyway. However, there are many other things you can do by recycling your magazine holders – like organizing!
Whatever kind of magazine holder you have, you’re sure to find a use for it. The most common magazine holders available in India are these:
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However, if you don’t have any old magazine holders and don’t want to spend money on new ones, no problem! You can easily make your own magazine holders using cereal boxes! Just cut out a side at an angle and that’s it. Leave it as it is, or decorate with pretty paper – it’s up to you. Once you have your magazine holders, get ready to be wowed – because today we have 25 brilliant ways to organize with magazine holders in your living room, kitchen, bathroom and more!
25 Inventive Ways to Organize with Magazine Holders
1. Wall Mounted Organizer
What I love about magazine holders is that you can use them on a table, inside a cupboard or even on the wall, as shown in The No Pressure Life. Wire magazine holders are easy to hang up, and they serve multiple purposes. What’s more, you can even add S hooks to the bottom for added storage.
2. Mobile Charging Station
No one likes to see wires and cables messing up your beautifully decorated vignettes, but we do need to charge our phones! I Heart Organizing comes up with a genius solution that uses a magazine holder with a hole at the back for the wire to pass through. That’s not all, she’s also added ‘shelves’ so you can make use of all that vertical space!
3. Modem Holder
Just like wires and cables, another ‘ugly’ necessity is your modem or router. It’s difficult to make a router look pretty, but you can hide it. Check out how it’s done at Design OCD using a magazine holder that very cleverly hides the router and all its associated electronic mess!
4. Sticker Organizer
Are you a planner obsessed person like me? If so, you’re sure to have lots of sticker books and other scrapbooking materials lying around. Organization Obsessed shows us how to keep all our precious stationery and planner supplies neatly organized in magazine holders. Don’t miss the coordinating pen holders on the top shelf!
5. Tablet Charging Dock
We saw how you can use a magazine holder to create a mobile charging station. But what about your other devices, like your tablets or iPads? Magazine holders to the rescue, again! 100 Things 2 Do shows us how you can easily create a dock for your tablets with no extra effort using a magazine holder.
6. Gift Wrap Organizer
We may not be having as many parties as we did pre-pandemic, but we’re still sending out gifts! Keep all your gift wrapping supplies like wrapping paper, ribbons and rosettes organized with this hack from I Heart Organizing. Not only can you easily find whatever you need, your supplies will be safe and in good condition – no one likes crumpled paper!
7. Food Packets Storage
We may not like it, but many of our grocery items come in packets, which are difficult to store unlike bottles or jars. If you have back stock and are wondering how to store them conveniently, use a magazine holder! You can either place it vertically or horizontally, as done here in The Kitchn.
8. Craft Paper Organizer
If you’re an avid crafter or you have kids, you’re sure to have lots of colored or patterned craft paper, some of which may be in odd shaped pieces. Keep everything under control and neatly organized in magazine holders. Or you could take it up a notch like they’ve done over at I Love my Three Sons and color co-ordinate your entire collection!
9. Recipe Organizer
Do you have recipes cut out from old magazines? Or maybe you’ve got some traditional recipes that aren’t in any book which you’ve written down to save them. In any case, you can use a magazine holder to keep them organized, and you can even make tabbed dividers so you can find them easily. Get more instructions over at Simply Organized.
10. Tupperware Lid Organizer
You’ll probably find that this list of ways to organize with magazine holders contains a lot of tips for the kitchen! This one from Better Homes and Gardens is for one common kitchen organization problem – Tupperware lids! If you find your lids floating everywhere and missing when you need them, put them all together in one place using a magazine holder.
11. Water Bottle Storage
Extra water bottles can be a pain to store, since they’re tall and can keep falling over each other. However, Better Homes and Gardens shows us that a couple of magazine holders can easily solve this problem, and also make them easy to access. You can pull out the bottle right at the bottom without everything else toppling down!
12. Party Supplies Organizer
Got a huge stash of paper plates and napkins and don’t know how to store them? Try out this hack from Birch Tree Organizing and use magazine holders to keep them separate and organized. This way you’ll have all your party supplies in one spot, and won’t end up damaging them.
13. Purse and Clutch Storage
Acrylic magazine holders look quite stylish, making them the perfect organizer for your beautiful clutches and purses. Most of us have multiple small bags and clutches which we forget to use simply because they’re not in plain view. Perpetually Chic makes this easier for us so that your valuable bags are protected and easily accessible.
14. Hair Tool Organizer
Some things are by their very nature, unwieldy and odd to store, like hair styling tools. Whether it’s a blow dryer, flat iron or curling iron, keeping them organized along with their wires can be challenging, but Seventeen has the solution – a magazine holder!
15. Foil Holder
Looking at this tip from Pretty Providence, you’d think that magazine holders were made to store aluminium foil and other packaging materials! You can easily fix this organizer inside your cabinet door, so it’s always accessible whenever you need it. You can either use double sided tape or command hooks to fix it.
16. Cutting Board Organizer
Cutting boards are something everyone of us uses on a daily basis, so it makes sense to organize them in a way that makes them easily accessible. I think this idea from Chic and Jo is absolutely genius, and most cutting board sizes will fit in standard magazine holders.
17. Utility Area Organizer
If you thought this list of ideas to organize with magazine holders was restricted to the kitchen, think again! This one from I Heart Organizing is perfect for a utility area or laundry room, or even a linen closet. Thanks to the open nature of a magazine holder, you can store pretty much anything in it, including fabrics or bottles.
18. Cleaning Supplies Organizer
Is your under the sink area cluttered and a general eyesore? It doesn’t have to be this way, thanks to this tip from Buzzfeed! A magazine holder is the perfect size and shape to hold cleaning liquid bottles, and since it stays upright, you can be safe from unwanted spillages inside your cabinets.
19. Yarn Storage
Laughing Purple Goldfish has a magazine holder hack that’s perfect for your craft room or sewing room. Whether your hobby is knitting, sewing or crochet, your yarns will stay neatly organized in these magazine holders. We love how she’s used many holders of the same type to give her room that neat look.
20. Greeting Card Organizer
Call me old fashioned, but I think that a digital card simply lacks the charm of a physical greeting card, especially if its handmade. If you’re like me and have a stash of greeting cards, keep them organized with a magazine holder, like this picture from 365 Designs. You can also make dividers from old cereal boxes to sort the cards by occasion.
21. Gift Bag Organizer
I prefer using gift bags, since a) you don’t need to bother with the wrapping and b) you can easily reuse them. If you’ve got a bunch of gift bags, make sure you’re storing them right since they can crumple and get damaged easily if dumped in a drawer with other things. Check out DIY Passion to see how they’ve done it.
22. Can Storage
I’m not a big canned food user, although I do occasionally buy some canned pineapple for my upside down cakes. If you use a lot of canned food, this hack from Making Midlife Matter will make your life a lot easier! The magazine holder helps you see exactly how much is left, and you can easily take a can without disturbing the others in the pile.
23. Produce Organizer
I love this idea from Buzzfeed – it’s a great hack for those with limited space in the kitchen. The vertical nature of the magazine holder takes up much less space than a regular basket would, and the mesh allows the fruits or vegetables to ‘breathe’. You can also see exactly how much produce you have left, so you can prevent any wastage due to rotting.
24. Fridge Organizer
Acrylic magazine holders are great for your dresser, but they’re also perfect for the kitchen since they are easy to clean and maintain. Buzzfeed shows us how magazine holders can increase storage space in your fridge, and also help you make use of deeper shelves.
25. Notebook Storage
Do you love collecting cute notebooks? I certainly do, which is why I love this idea from Love this Pic! This is perfect for storing all those extra notebooks and it’s also ideal for kids to store their artwork or drawing books. Love the cute labelling idea too!
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2 Comments
This is so elaborately detailed out. I did not know there is a Tupperware lid organiser too!!
That’s a common problem in most homes – missing or mismatched lids!