The trick with this process of throwing away crap is to actually throw it away. Or, at least, get it out of the house. I'm good at deciding I don't want something, putting it in the get-rid-of-pile, and having that pile grow and grow and grow.
And grow.
So, today, I went through the pile of to-read-magazines and decided, you know what, I'm not going to read these magazines.
And pitched them into the recycling bin. Out they went, into the trash bin when I emptied the recycling bin. Out of the house, on their way to being recycled.