What is up with magazines? We get a good dozen different magazines, none of which we’ve actually subscribed to. Or if we’ve subscribed to them, we haven’t actually paid for them. They seem to be free one year subscriptions. This has been going on for quite some time now. When one subscription goes away, another one seems to take its place.
Vegetarian Living, Car and Driver, Entertainment Weekly, Computer World, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Red Herring, Eweek, Alternative Medicine, ack the list goes on and on and on.
We rarely read these magazines. We toss some to the big kids. We make big piles of magazines to take to doctor waiting rooms, (but rarely remember to take them). Mostly, the magazine pile just builds and builds and builds.
With all of these magazines, you would think we might actually be subscribed to something we want to read. No, not really. The Vegetarian, we do like and we do read. RJ does still get the Nickelodeon magazine, so that’s good. Chris gets some photography magazine that my mom has been subscribing him to for about five years. So, ok, four magazines we really do want and appreciate. But we actually need some others. Children, in particular, have been asking for some magazines on a regular basis and it seems like this is a good time to start the subscriptions. Actually last month would have been better, but I forgot. Typical.
I’m using MagazinePriceSearch.com and have found I can order the four magazines people have most recently and most frequently mentioned. I like being able to order everything at one time. One stop shopping, I like that a lot.
Now if someone could explain why all of these other magazines have been appearing in my mailbox for a year, or more, I’d be happy.
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