How to Make Magazine Storage Binders

Buy a regular three ring binder wherever office or school supplies are sold. If you want store a year's subscription, make sure the binder is 3 inches thick. Purchase a smaller one if you don't want to store that many.

Measure and cut piece of heavy poster board to the height of the spine of the binder. It should measure about 1 1/2 inches wide. Wrap the strip with contact paper to make it last longer. Make more of these strips--one for each magazine that you want to store in the binder.

Hold the strips of cardboard wrapped in contact paper up to the rings and make marks with a marker 1/2 inch across the strips (on the left side) to show you where the rings line up. Punch holes in the markings with a heavy-duty hole punch.

Cut a 1/8-inch-wide strip, starting from the top of the strip, ending 1/4 inch away from the bottom edge and 1/2 inch inward on the right side. This is the piece that will be inserted into the pages of the magazines to hold them in place. Cover the cut edges with a strip of contact paper to make it stronger.

Open the three ring binder, feed the holes that you punched on the cardboard pieces through the open rings and close the metal rings. Slip the open end of the cardboard piece through the bottom of the magazine, close to the binding. Now your magazines will be held in place in the binder.