NJ Quilter

I still use the old recipe boxes. I have a metal one (mine) that I've used for 40+ years as well as DH's grandmother's wooden one (which, frankly, I never think to look in!). Because I'm older than dirt - or it least it feels that way some days, lol - I print any online recipes I find online and shove in the meal box. I don't even delude myself into thinking that 'one day' I'll copy/organize any of that stuff! I know which recipes are on 3x5 index cards; which are handwritten on various pieces of paper; which are computer printed. It works for me.

tessagin

I have my mother's cookbook from 1948 (my kitchen bible). I have some online and a envelope file with ones used most. Got rid of a lot by sending to relatives and donated to soup kitchen.

Doggramma

I have a really big 3 ring binder filled with lined 3 ring paper. And there are tabs for types of recipes, like meat, vegetables, cookies, cakes, etc. When I clip recipes I tape them onto a page in the book. Or you can write a recipe down in there too. It's worked out well for me.

Chasing Hawk

I do the same with recipes I clip or print, placing them in a "protective sleeve" and in a binder.

I like your idea about a cookbook falling apart. I have one of those red Betty Crocker cookbooks that is on its last legs......lol I think I will get some supplies from Staples and save my cherished cookbook.

coopah

i have 2 recipe boxes. One is for sweet and the other for everything else. I also have my MIL's, and 2nd MIL's recipe boxes along with my maternal grandmother's recipe box. My dad made the recipe box for her and painted it red! My grandmother (same one) also gave me her HS home economics book (from before 1920) with handwritten recipes in it. It's heartwarming to me to see their handwriting and think of them cooking for family and friends.

nativetexan

the only recipes I have are on 5x7 cards in those metal boxes that every one collects now. from my high school cooking class.

Auj

I had to laugh when I read this request. I have a recipe box that I use, a binder with protector sheets, scads of cookbooks I seldom look into anymore, an online recipe box at Epicurious, and a few recipe boards on Pinterest. Plus I have some lying around that I printed out or wrote on scrap paper. I love to cook, but more than that, I love to collect recipes!

Mkotch

Lately, I have little slips of paper stuck in a box - very disorganized. But my favorite recipes (from when I owned a B&B) are in sheet protectors in a recipe holder on top of the refrigerator. One of these days...

SuzzyQ

I use a program called Mastercook. Took a while to get the recipes in but now it works really well. Can print it out or share with my kids. Gave a copy to my nieces when they got married. (I'm known as a good cook in my family)

Sleepy Hollow

Like Auj, my recipes are everywhere!

I have a binder my dad put together of family recipes (printed off and in paper protectors) along with household tips.

I have a binder of recipes I've printed off, also in paper protectors, where the favorites work their way to the front.

I have a photo album for 4 x 6 photos where I store any small recipes and cards.

I email recipes to myself so they are always available, as long as I have internet access.

I also store them on "the cloud" so I can access them from home or work. And on a pinterest board (although this is my least favorite method, because when a website goes dead, you lose whatever you had pinned).

My favorite cookbooks are on an open shelf by the stove, and I have more in a cabinet. I recently went through a box of recipes (mostly clipped from magazines) and tossed any I won't be making, organized the rest.

I love to try new recipes, but I can also be a recipe collector. At least they don't take up much space!