Do you or does someone in your household get a magazine subscription?
What magazines do you subscribe to?
Where is your location of choice to read your magazines?
What do you do with your magazines once you've read them?
I get Glamour (which is actually one of the best woman magazines I've ever read), and Lucky (it's okay but the fashions are too young for this older woman and way to pricey - guess I'm cheap at heart). I get my magazines as gifts from my daughter (she says I'm impossible to buy for). My husband gets GQ (Gentleman's Quarterly), and another one that I can't recall the name of.
Our location of choice to read magazines is the bathroom, sitting on our royal throne.
I usually leave the magazines sitting in there for an extra month and then give them to a neighbor that doesn't subscribe to either of those magazines (this is probably the best way to subscribe - neighbors take different magazines and then swap at the end of the month, it's like getting twice as many magazines for the same price), take it to the hair salon we go to.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Magazines Subscriptions
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I used to have a lot of subscriptions, but now with the Internet...no need. I do most of my reading online! Otherwise, I sit down a read a good book :)
I too hae gotten rid of my subscriptions. I would often fall behind and then have a stack to read and no time to read them. But when I do need to buy one to kill some time, I like Mental Floss.
Hi Deb - "Mental Floss", eh? I've heard of the mag, but haven't read it, yet. I'm sure they stole their name from me. (no, I'm kidding).
I'm terrible - well, I used to be worse, but I'm still pretty bad. I get Oprah every month as well as Kiplinger's Personal Finance Mag. I'm now getting More - which is for us... uhm... how shall we say, "old GALS". It's put out by Ladies Home Journal, so it's well written. On a less often basis, I get O at Home, Interweave Knits, and a scrapbooking magazine. Then, of course, I also get a professional magazine at my PO Box. I try and NOT bring that one into my house. I'm not always successful.
Oh, and lest I forget, I have an office subscription to The New Yorker which I always put out in the waiting room and hope someone steals. If not, I'm stuck either throwing it away or, more likely, taking it home and adding it to the pile.
Oh yeah, one more. Can you believe it? Now I'm embarrassed. I get Sunset Magazine which is a pretty west coast only mag with gardening, local travel and food articles.
I also buy Scientic American Mind and Vanity Fair if they have something interesting on the cover (I'm a sucker for neuroscience articles which is why I like Mind over Psychology Today), and an occasional National Geographic (I got the China issue a few months back, for example).
Yes, as you guessed - I'm a reader. I admit it. I'm going to slink away and read.
~Laura
I get Men's Health for Tom and then read the excellent articles, usually in the bathroom, but obviously his subscription is currently going to a different address closer to your neck of the woods. ;)
A nice friend of mine subscribed me to Wine Spectator (goes from mailbox directly to trash - sorry, but I know I like a nice glass of wine and then shut up about it already) and Money. Honestly, anything I want to know or want to read other than a hold it in your hands book is online, and online just takes up time, not space on my coffee table. More room for coffee that way ;)
i subscribe to so many i can't even count. i scaled back a bit, but they are so cheap, i get them for almost nothing. i use my frequent flyer miles for most of them though. they are in the bathroom, livingroom and bedroom, go figure the last one.
For many years I subbed to a few, then got tired of trying to figure out what to do with all of them. Then the glorious recycle bin appeared in my life and I went back to subbing again. Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Family Tree Magazine, PC mag, and Ancestry. I was just lamenting the other day that I used to sub to PlayGIRL mag in the 70's. Wish I still had those mags. Not for the pics, but because they are probably worth something. LOL
We have too many:
Esquire
GQ
Details
Self
Shape
Lucky
Domino
Cookie
The Atlantic
Real Simple
Every Day Food
Cooking Light
and some computer and video game magazines I don't look at. I used to save up my magazines then give them away, but my husband is a compulsive tidier and just tosses them. Can you imagine?
I don't subscribe to any at the moment, and I even stopped buying them at the store. I love magazines, but they're too expensive considering I'm usually done reading them in less then 1/2 an hour. I decided not to buy anymore and just sign them out of the library to flip through.
When I was buying them they would stack up and would always say I would find somewhere to donate them like a seniors home or something, but then I never get around to it and eventually get tired of them taking up space and toss them.
Ones I enjoy are Woman's Weekly, Family Circle, Canadian Living, Good Housekeeping....any of those kinds. I like a magazine where I can read nice articles on a variety of things, get some good recipes and maybe some craft and decorating ideas, but I like them all in one.
Before I moved from my house w/ten acres to a 1 bedroom apartment, I used to get every gardening magazine under the sun. Now it's down to Garden Design, which is my favorite.
I also get:
Entertainment Weekly
TV Guide
The Week
Instinct
Out
The Advocate
and Hobby Farm - which is funny, because I let my subscription end, and when I got the last issue, I sent an e-mail to the editor thanking her for a nice magazine and explaining that I had to give up my chickens and no longer had a farm... so she gave me a one year free extension of my subscription... nice, but kinda weird because I just told her I no longer have a farm!!!
After reading my magazines, I put most of them in a basket that says "Free Publications" by the door to my shop, along with the endless gardening catalogs I still get, and the local publications I get for being a business owner.
I have a few:
Real Simple
Home Companion
Cookie
Smart Money
Parents
Yankee
They reside on the coffee table and when I'm done, I cut them up and use what I can in my crafts. The rest goes to recycle.
Hmmmm... OK, let me try to remember because I just had to change the addresses of so many of them.
Diabetes Forecast
Newsweek
Smithsonian
AARP
Budget Travel
Oh dear! My brain just went dead. Sigh....
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