<p>2 boxes full of brochures from schools. it's not recyclable because it's paperboard and already been printed and glossed (right???)..don't know of a kid to give it to or w/e.. and i don't think thrift stores take these because they're.. brochures.. not magazines.</p>
<p>i would think it's recyclable.. but my mother is being very persistent with her "no, it's glossed paperboard, you can't recycle it"'s... perhaps she just wants to throw away everything and get rid of it all? if not, what do i do with it? what have you done with them all?</p>
<p>I threw most of mine away, but I still kept the brochures from Middlesex, Deerfield, Andover, and St. Paul's, because those are my favorite schools and if I were to ever apply to boarding school, those are the schools I would apply to.</p>
<p>But since you're already going to Exeter I would just throw them away, or if you live in a neighborhood where lots of kids apply to boarding school then maybe you could donate them to your library.</p>
<p>You could probably try recycling it, because they had to sort through it anyway, to make sure that everything is recyclable, and let them make the call.
'tis a great shame, blairt. You leave the forum, only coming back to ask about brochures. Tsk, tsk. :D</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that the video from Exeter is non-recyclable.</p>
<p>I understand that they sent most people VHS tapes. Really? VHS? That's sort of disappointing because it makes people wonder why they didn't rate a DVD. We're not as shallow as all that. In fact, we were quite happy to get an 8-track tape recording extolling the virtues of Exeter.</p>
<p>blair, I've kept a lot of brochures to give to my friend who is applying to BS next year. If anybody in SoCal is that you know, then just donate them to the library like Jon said or keep them for memories. :)</p>
<p>i'm not going to throw them out.. that's like 30 pounds of paper. i might as well leave the car running for a week.</p>
<p>the brochures would be outdated anyway.. people want to order their own w/ their own applications, etc.</p>
<p>and i don't feel like being creative.. i'm not going to make a tent out of them or something. i just want them gone! every time i open my door i'm reminded that i can't open my door all the way because there are 2 giant boxes stuffed with brochures behind them... waiting.. for me to light them on fire or something.</p>
<p>I would be shocked if even the color printed stuff with nice paper isn't recyclable -- it's too hot-button an issue these days for colleges to get away with materials NOT being recyclable.</p>
<p>DS has folders for the schools on his list and keeps a small amount of other college mailings. We accumulate stuff in a box, and when it's full, we weigh it, record the amount, and then recycle. DS's college mailings this year are up to 35% of his body weight, not counting the items in his List Box, and not counting the (literally) hundreds of emails he's received. :)</p>
<p>It felt soooo good to toss them out (into recycling). Verry gratifying. Although I did thumb through them one last time. Not my kid, she saw them as marketing tools - no nostalgia for them, on her part!</p>
<p>Give them to your local middle school counseling dept. Maybe some kid will see them and realize the boarding school dream is achievable for them,too.</p>
<p>This is true. The things that are most valuable as collector's items are the things that people don't think to save. If everyone is saving it, the value is diminished. I once read that old credit cards -- which people tend to cut up -- are collectibles. This article was written before eBay, but I recall a 1960 AmEx card was sold for almost $1,000. And it wasn't Karl Malden's or Sammy Davis, Jr.'s card or anything like that.</p>
<p>lol.. i'm in the process of clearing out my room out and getting rid of everything i don't use on a weekly basis... it's really rather refreshing. i have soo much stuff that i've never, ever used and is only cluttering up the space in which i live.. so it feels great to just get rid of it all.</p>
<p>i have saved the exeter brochures.. i think i lost my acceptance letter =(. it was really nice too because it was personalized and flattering and one of the directors added something at the bottom of one of th pages in hand writing which was really nice. i'm sure i'll find it somewhere..</p>
<p>I've kept all of my Choate brochures and some newspaper archives that didn't get swallowed up by the creative thing I made to get into Choate (so I had to dissect all of the newspapers) :) But I also have viewbooks from Groton and SPS which I've kept, because they're really nice. And then I have a viewbook from Andover. It's all in a little basket.</p>
<p>Blair, maybe once you've cleaned out the rest of your room, you'll find a spot for all of your brochures. Put them in a nice box or something. Then it won't look "cluttered" and it won't just be another object in your room - without all of the other clutter, it also won't bother you as much.</p>
