I LOVE MAGAZINES!
I still have the first magazine I ever subscribed to. It was the March/April 1987 issue of YM. And yes, my mom let me subscribe to YM.... at 10 years old. I had a subscription to YM well into college and I saved every single issue. No joke. I also saved all my Seventeens and Teens. To me these magazines were sacred. My mother recently confided to me that she and my father made the executive decision to throw them all out a few years back. The practical side of me understood completely but the sentimental, sensitive side said, "YOU DID WHAT????". Don't worry mom. no hard feelings.
I've never kicked the magazine habit and I still have a hard time getting rid of them. Poor, JG... He had no idea what he was in for when I moved in. He literally steps on them, over them and slips on them. In recent years the way I've handled the build up is I will drop a bunch off to different medical offices as I go about my day. They are usually grateful due to the fact that a good read in the waiting room is usually a Time magazine from 1995. Below is a list of the following magazines I read on a regular basis today (some weekly, some monthly). Please try not to hear the ca-ching of the cash register as you read each one....
Allure
Glamour
Marie Claire
Women's Health
Shape
InStyle
Real Simple
Bazaar
Cooking Light
Bon Appetit
Cook's Illustrated
Everyday Living
This Old House
Cottage Living
Domino
Reminisce
Us Weekly
People
Cleveland Magazine
Consumer Reports
Psychology Today
Runner's World
Green Guide
Pharmaceutical Representative
Selling Power
Is there a self help program out there that anyone knows of?
4 comments:
It must be genetic. I have every Entertainment Weekly since it's inception in 1987. Well, wait a minute. I took a year or two off here or there but if you figure close to twent years of a weekly magazine, that comes to 1,000-some issues. Those would be neatly stacked in the basement.
Why do I do it? It's the packrat gene. Plus, I'm under the misconception that someday these will be collector's items. So when they come to find my body, they'll find it hidden somewhere between stacks of newspapers, soup cans, and underneath a mountain of cat feces.
"The futures so bright, I've got to wear shades."
I used to have subscriptions to at least 10 magazines at any given time. But now (with blogging), I just can't seem to get through all of them!
The only ones I still always try to read are Elle, InStyle and Us Weekly. (I'm too old for Cosmo and Glamour now!)
I agree with the genetic theory. The stacks of comic books, Handyman, Ian Fleming novels, and music cassettes our backroom serves as evidence.
Jchoma and Pen - It must be genetic! Can't seem to shake this one...
AAB- I am so over Cosmo as well! I still like Glamour and Elle is definitely a great read!
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