please empty your brain below
"19 free London Cycle maps" ??? .... you can't fight it, you know we'll get you in the end.

Ham | Homepage | 21.02.07 - 12:33 a.m. | #

You could always hire someone with OCD to organize said leaflets for you. Who knows what weird and wonderful system they might come up with! I once read about an obsessive compulsive person offering their clutter-busting services via a Private Eye classified...

Ariel | Homepage | 21.02.07 - 12:42 a.m. | #

But would you be happy with anyone else composing a filing system? Hmmm I think not.

Only a DG system will do.

Amused | 21.02.07 - 12:51 a.m. | #

What's a Pamphlet, then?

flashgordonnz | 21.02.07 - 1:00 a.m. | #

Number each one (black pen on little white stickers) and file them in little shoe boxes, say 000 to 099, then 100 to 199, etc. Then build a database of those numbers, add the leaflet title and list key words next to each one. Then, when you search yr db for "Olympics 2012", the leaflets relevant will be identified in your query result by the number (and title). Then, when you go to retrieve them from the shoe boxes, you’ll get pleasure not just from the leaflets you are seeking, but the other 99-odd in the shoe box that you sift thru.

It’s a bit like looking up a word in a paper dictionary: you stumble across so many other interesting words on the way.

Oh: and if you could scan the documents, you could get little thumbnails in your query result, allowing you to get an even better idea of the relevance of the leaflet to your search.

I do get out. Sometimes.

flashgordonnz | 21.02.07 - 1:08 a.m. | #

I also collect leaflets but I'm very fussy. Not for me the glossy double sided art paper, I far prefer a classy matt finish and a composition that tears well for my purposes(raggedy, with fibres). My modest selection hardly needs an extensive filing system, however, they are sorted into colours. As for OCD, I think not, I'm far more interested in gsm.

Gladys | 21.02.07 - 1:39 a.m. | #

The recycling police will be making their way to you now :P

The Fly | Homepage | 21.02.07 - 2:09 a.m. | #

I think this brings up the definition of the difference between the 'leaflet' and the 'brouchure'.

My guess would be the leaflet is either a single unfolded page... as opposed to the brochure, which is folded into two or three pages.

It might seem like a small difference to some... but it makes all the difference in the world!

Always room for one more brochure!

John | Homepage | 21.02.07 - 2:43 a.m. | #

And a booklet has multiple separate pages, often stapled together? So, John, a leaflet is like a handbill?

flashgordonnz | 21.02.07 - 5:04 a.m. | #

Golly, no agreement here on the physical form:

leaf•let –noun 1. a small flat or folded sheet of printed matter, as an advertisement or notice, usually intended for free distribution.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

leaf•let - n.
A printed, usually folded handbill or flier intended for free distribution.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

noun
3. a small book usually having a paper cover [syn: booklet] - WordNet® 2.1, © 2005 Princeton University

leaflet noun
a small, printed sheet containing information etc - Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

flashgordonnz | 21.02.07 - 5:05 a.m. | #

I'm gagging for one of those tube leaflets that you see other people have. Not huge, wallet sized, and so handy (compared with my massive fold out map that pisses off half the trains on the Jubilee line). Where can I find them, or is it London residents only?

Rhys | Homepage | 21.02.07 - 9:13 a.m. | #

I'm a leafletoholic too and it drives my wife mental. Maybe I could send some to you when she forces me to do a clear out every so often?

Michael | 21.02.07 - 9:29 a.m. | #

I heart glossy leaflets which raise completely unrealistic expectations for tourist attractions.

How else would I have learned of Yeovil's Museum of Bakelite?

Scaryduck | Homepage | 21.02.07 - 9:47 a.m. | #

My mother's a bit like that, and so is my aunt on my father's side - so I get it in both directions, despite a natural aversion to clutter. I feel awfully guilty throwing them away; it's such a squandering of informations, like a little murder.

My aunt has black bin bags full of them. You want to know the opening times of that marvellous little museum near Buffalo that she visited in the late 1980s? She'll be only too glad to tell you. Internet, schminternet.

mike | Homepage | 21.02.07 - 10:28 a.m. | #

Y'know DG, you don't suprise me at all!

Harriet | Homepage | 21.02.07 - 11:06 a.m. | #

There's money to be made by selling old leaflets back to tourist attractions and companies who haven't thought to keep an ongoing archive collection. However, I wouldn't sell *any* of my leaflets, as they're all a tiny piece of my history. And as for throwing them away - well, as mike says, it'd be like murder.

These days I have stopped collecting nearly so many though, just because of the storage problem. Plus, they're not of the same quality these days as they were years ago. Info and printed publicity are cheap and meant to be disposable these days.

And as for putting the excess leaflets you pick up in the bin for landfill (isn't it time you put pressure on your friend George to do something about your lack of recycling facilities?), well.... like my old Grandma used to say, "If you put food on your plate, you eat it!" ie If you choose to pick them up, you keep them.

I think a filing system would spoil their appeal - isn't half the fun looking through the stash and finding things you'd forgotten?

Blue Witch | Homepage | 21.02.07 - 11:17 a.m. | #

*awaits criticism for overuse of 'these days' in para 2*

Blue Witch | Homepage | 21.02.07 - 11:18 a.m. | #

I am with the OCD option, but you could get them filed in really interesting ways to keep the mystery of finding something, perhaps by dominant colour in rainbow order or alphabetically in order of the first word to appear on the leaflet.
that way they are filed really neatly and so safe for future reading whilst in reality being totally randomly stored.

mr bw | 21.02.07 - 1:06 p.m. | #

I tend to hoard 'holiday memorabilia' you know, maps, tram tickets, leaflets about museums or attractions that I visited. Along with my thousands of photos, that I have been meaning to sort for the last 30 yrs, I need a filing system too. When you die, do your kids just chuck it all out, or do they pore over it all with a tear in their eye?

Commutertina | 21.02.07 - 1:06 p.m. | #

'these days' overuse scare.

Strandman | Homepage | 21.02.07 - 1:08 p.m. | #

Admitting you have a problem is the first step on the road to recovery. After creating the problem, that is.

Good on ya!

Dave in Chicago | 21.02.07 - 3:26 p.m. | #

When you're an old geezer, dg, one of your leaflets may be the last surviving copy of a very limited run, and worth a small fortune. Better keep them all and put them on ebay in 40 years' time

Great Aunt Annie | 21.02.07 - 9:11 p.m. | #

Along with my thousands of photos, that I have been meaning to sort for the last 30 yrs, I need a filing system too. When you die, do your kids just chuck it all out, or do they pore over it all with a tear in their eye?(commertina)
All USA street car afficionados know that when you die they get the dumpster unless you have been organized enough to send it to a passing trolley museum.

Kate Sullivan | 21.02.07 - 9:29 p.m. | #

the 'capital ring' sounds very me.

H out of steps | 21.02.07 - 10:22 p.m. | #

DG, I do exactly this! I can't go into or out of a tube station without a glance at what's in the leaflet racks. And I work for TfL, I have more inside knowledge than I know what to do with, but I still have to look at a new leaflet which arrives in the tube or library!
Really glad it's not just me!

Tony | 22.02.07 - 7:24 p.m. | #











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