Magazines
Debio asked everyone, Just how many magazines do you get? We are having an atypical year in that I used some about-to-expire airline miles for free magazine subscriptions. So we're getting all kinds of stuff, like Newsweek, The Week, Money, Smart Money, Golf, Golf Digest, More, The Economist, Prevention, Fortune, Ode, Forbes and Sports Illustrated. They don't create much of a problem because about once a month I bundle them all up and take them to the local hospital, who is happy to get them. One thing I regret is picking Forbes; it turns my stomach to read some of the crap in it.
Anyway, the real problem is the keepers, the magazines we get because we love them. That includes Organic Gardening, Horticulture, Fine Gardening, Fine Home Building, Kaatskill Life, Audubon, and Mother Earth News. I also get American Patchwork & Quilting, Love of Quilting, and McCall's Quilting. So you can see the problem!
Edited 10/21/2009 10:53 am ET by Catskill Deb
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(post #11536, reply #1 of 6)
Yep big problem! I get FG, organic gardening, horticulture, Garden Gate, 2 art teaching magazines, clay times, prevention, Cornell-Weill newsletter and Cooks Illustrated....plus like I said, always pick up light cooking at the store.
There is a garden club here in the county, so I try to give them my magazines. But they end up giving them back.... really not my intention most of the time. Then there is my addiction to buying literary fiction (in paper back) and art books.
(post #11536, reply #2 of 6)
I laughed when I read your post, because those unexpired airline miles also bring us Time, Newsweek, The Week, The Economist, Travel and Leisure, and I don't remember what else! I have cut back a little bit on garden magazines because I never throw those out and there are stacks and stacks of those in one of my cupboards, and I have found that a few of them just repeat the same things I have read a dozen times. Fine Gardening is probably the best of the lot, followed by Horticulture. I used to get Garden Design, but it was just too much upscale stuff to buy rather than about good gardening articles. And did I mention Yankee, and Smithsonian, and...........I can't decide if the post office hates us for having to deliver so many magazines, or loves us for helping keep them in business.
(post #11536, reply #3 of 6)
I used to get Garden Design also, but discontinued it because it seemed to be mostly cutting edge stark gardens in the West and Southwest, and I rarely saw an article on a garden I liked. I also dropped Better Homes & Gardens and Yankee magazine, because they just piled up without getting read. BH&G and Yankee are both hard to drop; they keep sending cheaper and cheaper offers. Last time I renewed BH&G, it was 3 years for $19. Yankee was 1 year for $10. But I mean it this time, no more!
(post #11536, reply #4 of 6)
I keep waiting for an offer from BG&H to pay me to accept their magazines. My husband used to like Yankee but he says it is no longer worth reading. I went in to the library to sort and organize books for a booksale today. Oh-oh.......umm, it was only four books and one was a Molly Ivens I haven't read, and one was a gardening book, and one is a gift for my grandsons so that one doesn't count, so that is only one other measly little paperback.......that's not SO bad, is it?
(post #11536, reply #5 of 6)
Not bad at all! I really like Molly Ivans also, and her books are treasures. Your husband might want to check out Yankee again. I agree that it was pretty bad for a while, but it has improved. Still not as good as the ones pre-dating the big change for mass market appeal, but they're better now.
(post #11536, reply #6 of 6)
I recently re-subscribed to Air and Space because the offer included a nifty Air and Space travel bag like the one that came with my first subscription. I love the mag but I'm not getting other mags read. Fine Gardening, Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, National Geo, Scientific American, Smithsonian Mag, Archaeology. Plus a neighbors cast off Progressive Farmer. Always loved The Economist but the USPS consistently refused to deliver the mag on time often being two and three weeks late and sometimes all on the same day.
BJ