Did/do you collect soap opera magazines?

[typoprone]

At the height of my soap craze (particularly with Days of our Lives, then Sunset Beach), I used to buy and collect every issue of Soap Opera Weekly (and the now-defunct Soap Opera News). I kept them in pristine condition with the intention of referring back them for reference several years down the line. Well, it's been almost a decade, I still have the magazines in a plastic under-the-bed container, and I find that I no longer want them.

WHY DID I WASTE MY MONEY ON THAT CRAP?! lol.

I'm wondering if I should keep 'em around longer (in the hopes that one day I will want to look through them again) or toss 'em in the recycling bin (realizing that I will probably never want to look through them again).

Anyone else collect soap opera magazines and find you no longer want your pile of junk? Did you get rid of them or have you kept them around, too?

[SteveFrame]

I used to have a huge collection and lost all of them in a water leak.

I am currently working on rebuilding the collection esp. of Daytime TV magazines. My favorite soap opera publication of all time.

[SFK]

My family used to have a HUGE box full of SOD, but before our move I said to myself, "This is ridiculous, and there's no way I'm moving this heavy ass box from location to location." I thought about trying to do the ebay thing, but the pennies I would have possibly earned seemed hardly worth the hassle. Over the course of a few days, I sat and went through every.single.magazine, page.by.page. It was a nice little stroll down memory lane, and I cut out any pictures/articles I really liked. I only saved one complete issue, the oldest one we still had which was only from '90 or so, I don't remember exactly but it was near GL's anniversary with Mac and Felicia from GH on the cover. It was amazing to me that the stuff I held onto those magazines for all fit into one little folder. I saved a SOW or two and all of those Daytime Magazines that were devoted to a single show plus a 1995 "Yearbook" with great pictures. What I really wish is that we'd kept all of those Episodes magazines we used to get. My mom would take those to the hair dressers and leave them there for the other ladies while they sat under the dryers.

[SteveFrame]

Wow with what SOD's sale for on Ebay these days you could make a fortune.

When I first started buying mags on Ebay the SOD's sold pretty cheap. I don't even bid on them anymore.

The Daytime TV ones still occassionally go cheap. I recently bought 4 for ten bucks and that was pretty cheap compared to some. I looked at one yesterday which was not a special issue or anything and the starting bid on it was $89.00.

There is one issue of Daytime TV one guy is trying to get over 100 bucks for.

[YRBB]

Oh, no! Don't throw them away! I would never have the power to do that!

If you don't want them, send them over to me!

[Adam]

My mom did. She used to get SOW almost every week in the early to mid 90's. We still have the majority of them in a cabinet downstairs. Its nice to pull them out every once and a while.... its a window into the golden age of daytime for me. The covers always used to be so good!

We also have several SOD's, Soap Opera Magazine, and Soap Opera Update. There was such a wide range of selection back then, and all of the publications beat anything that is offered today.

[Scotty]

One my grandma's (dad's mom) used to get the short-lived ABC Daytime soap mag. 'Episodes.' Not sure what ever happened to those though....probably song since thrown away.

In case you forgot about that one, here is 1989 article about it from the New York Times:

[lmfan]

I have a box full from the 80's that I don't ever look at. I bought them when I was in middle school and high school and when I moved into my new house four years ago, I put them in a plastic container in a corner of my basement. Most are focused on Days or GH as those were my soaps when I was a teen even though I have been only into Y & R since the mid 90s. I actually forgot about them until I read this thread.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Never been a huge magazine collector. I used to buy the magazines and then throw them away after I've read them.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I've never heard of that special ABC magazine, when did it go out of business?

[Pine Charles]

I remember Episodes.

I think I still have the one with Kate Collins, Julia Barr and Genie Francis on the cover (circa 1991).

My mom had a subscription to SOD in the early '90s. I saved a bunch of them, but then threw them away when we moved. I wish I hadn't.

[Soapsuds]

I use to collect and buy the SOW magazines. Usually bought the ATWT covers or the Y&R covers. I don't have them anymore. I wish I had kept them but threw them away a couple of years. I had the cover of ATWT where Lily is holding a gun and all the suspects around here..refering to the who killed Diego storyline.

[Paul Raven]

I had some late 70's/early 80's Afternoon TV's,which i threw away (regrets!!!)

also Soap Opera Update in the 80's,which i also discareded.

Luckily I held onto Soap Opera Digest.The earliest issue I have is Jume 79.

[mamasita]

I loved Daytime TV magazine, used to send the poll by mail, it was so much fun reading it, i lost all my collection...the best magazine ever! the good old days, will they ever come back?

[JackPeyton]

I have a bunch of late 80's/early 90's soap opera digest magazines with Lauren on the cover i got from ebay.

i have a slew of mid/late 90's covers with sami brady from Days.

and i have some newer ones i kept like the days killer storyline. and a few with maxie on the cover.