[SamAdams76]

For some reason, I have a compulsive need to stockpile National Geographic and Wired magazines. I have every issue of NG from about 1972 to the present and I have every issue of Wired since I first subscribed back in 1994.

My wife got me the CD-ROM version of every NG magazine from the past 100 years with the expectation that I would get rid of my collection. Nothing doing however. I mean, you can't take a CD-ROM to the bathroom with you.

I guess the glossy feel of these magazines especially appeal to me. In my computer room, the shelves are literally groaning under the nearly 120 issues of Wired but it is fun to thumb through them from time to time and see what was "cool" just five years ago (still can't afford it though).

[TroutStalker]

LOL! We had large stacks of National Geographic at Pop's house from way back. Those things are heavy, too.

When we gave a subscription to our daughter, she asked if she had to keep all the old ones. She is definitely not a hoarder.

[tiamat]

It's unAmerican to throw out National Geopgraphic.

Friend of ours told us a story about how they caughter a Soviet spy during the Cold War because the guy threw out his Geographics.
Fed went through his trash, found those, every month, and decided to investigate further....

Tia

[sweetliberty]

Thought some of y'all might find this article interesting.

[Old Professer]

I thought Hefner cured people of saving National Geographic.