I think it might be time for us to reassess our magazine subscriptions. In looking at our bills and budget for the year, I compiled a complete list of all magazines to which we subscribe:
Entertainment Weekly
Maxim*
Playboy
MAD Magazine*
Mental Floss*
Smart Money
Consumer Reports
PC Gamer*
Maximum PC*
Wizard *
Forbes
Architectural Digest @
Lucky @
Travel and Leisure @
Domino @
Food and Wine @
Angeleno @
Conde Nast Traveler @
National Geographic @
* – indicates any magazines that are strictly mine
@ – indicates any magazines that are strictly Amy’s.
I think I’m going to cancel Maxim – it used to be amusing to read, but it’s gotten boring. Other than that, though, I can’t think of another single magazine that I can consider canceling!
On the plus side, between the magazines, the 30 new comics I buy each week, and the 1-2 new novels I buy each week, I always have enough to read in my throne room. And if our power goes out, I have plenty of kindling for a fire!
I wonder if they have a magazine for magazine addicts…..
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Twitter: alotofnothing
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You have a serious mag problem.
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Your mind is a sponge. I mean that as a complement .. I think.
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Glad to see you both enjoy Playboy.
I’m thinking Entertainment Weekly might be sacrificed. You can read that stuff online…unless you consider it essential bathroom reading. And you can use it for TP if you run out.
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Twitter: Blogography
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I’m quite pleased that Playboy is not exclusively yours. I always thought Amy was cool, but this raises her to an entirely new level.
In an effort to simplify my life, I got rid of all my subscriptions except Wired, Nintendo Power, National Geographic Traveler, and Condé Nast Traveler. I used to subscribe to 18, including Maxim, which I agree has lost a lot of its charm.
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Twitter: VerdantDude
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Where do you find time to work?
Or sleep. Or eat.
I used to be a comic book-aholic. Around 100 issues a month or so back in the early 90′s. From the crap I see produced today I can’t imagine it ever climbing that high even if I were to really get back into it.
An interesting post, for me, would be a list of all of your comic book monthly purchases. Excluding one-shots and mini-series.
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I am apparently an idiot.
I have never heard of the following:
Mental Floss
Wizard
Domino
Angeleno
I REALLY think you need to add a subscription to Us Weekly. It makes much better toilet paper than the others.
Or something.
How’s the liquid ass fire today? And did you have fun Mounting Dora? :dance:
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GET rid of them all and read them all online!!!
I am not cheap just realistic!!
Happy Sunday!
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I somehow got a free subscription to Maxim. I think I overpaid. MAD should definitely be the last thing to go. If necessary, blame the economy and cancel all of Amy’s magazines. Offer to lend her your PC mags as a consolation.
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Twitter: poppycede
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I used to read magazines in my former life.
I am currently reading Infidel and Dewey (the library cat book). Both are excellent stories, although Infidel is slightly better written but sometimes incohesive.
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Twitter: _scifidad_
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Just before my son was born, I signed up for SI again (I had it before but canceled after I realized I wasn’t reading it). I have read exactly two (weekly) issues since it started to arrive. Every other copy ends up in the recycling.
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Twitter: missbritt
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Ever heard of a library?
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Twitter: nycwatchdog
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They still print Maxim?
I thought it went the route of Stuff and FHM… the graveyard.
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I no longer subscribe to any magazines, instead I just but them if I see an article that interests me, or whatever. Subscribing has never been my problem, getting rid of them is. (I’m one of those people with boxes of Rolling Stones dating from the mid-80s.)
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Is MAD still good? I haven’t read it in years.
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Amy and I could definitely share magazines. I’ve never even heard of some of yours! Regardless, MAD is a must.
Way to whittle down your budget… :lmao:
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Twitter: Bellaventa
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Wow…I thought I was bad. I canceled a lot of my subs too for 09 – not that I didn’t like them…I just wasn’t reading them. Is Playboy even interesting anymore?
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Twitter: hellohahanarf
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damn, that is a lot of magazines. no wonder it takes you a week every time you gotta crap.
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The rumor is that Domino may go under, and that will just kill me. I will watch out the window for the mail if Kelly tells me her Domino already arrived.
How do you find time for anything else unless you spend 8 hours a day in the bathroom?
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I don’t read magazines…at all. I mean, yes if they are at the dentist’s office or if someone gives them to me to read on a plane or something but other than that? Nope. I have no idea why I have such an aversion to them…I may be a little off.
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Where do you find time to read all that? If in the throne room you must spend lots of time in there. I subscribe to Star and Time, I must have a split personality.
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Maxim is by far my favorite magazine. However, the subscriptions in our class include:
Maxim
Elle
Glamour
Playboy
Entertainment Weekly
Forbes
Better Homes & Gardens (Yeah, I’m not sure why I subscribe to this one?)
Parenting
And one other that I can’t think of right now?
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by class I meant house? I’m not really sure how I ended up typing the word class?
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Oh. Have you ever checked out Garden & Gun magazine? It’s a riot. I blogged about this ages ago and it still cracks me up. I read it online.
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Twitter: http://whall.org/blog
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I think I’ll have my kids hit you up on the next fundraiser that has to do with magazine renewals.
On second thought…
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You should check out
The Week
Economist
For finance, I’ve enjoyed our subscription to Barron’s.
We’re always inundated with magazines as well because we have multiple weekly subscriptions and it’s hard to not read them since they’re relevant to the times.
We used to have Entertainment Weekly and I agree it is a fun way to keep up with current entertainment without having to actually watch all the shows etc.
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Twitter: Faiqa
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Psst. Amy is cool. Pass it on.
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Twitter: Kapgar
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Holy Christ! I’ve seen bookstores with fewer magazine subscriptions.
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Angie, they’re good to read when you don’t need to pay attention to anything.
e.Craig, I shall take it as one!
LMSS, I don’t like reading magaiznes online, and I crave info about entertainment.
Dave2, I don’t even look at the pictorials in Playboy – I honestly get it for the articles.
BE Earl, I’ll have to put together a post of my comic reads for a month sometime.
Stephanie, Mental Floss is a magazine with random trivia. Wizard is a comic book magazine. Domino is some type of hip lifestyle fashion magazine, and Angeleno is a magazine about living in Los Angeles.
Michelle, I don’t like reading anything online.
Grant, MAD would definitely be the last to go – I’ve subscribed to that for 25 years.
Poppy, what is Infidel?
SciFi Dad, that’s one magazine I’ve never subscribed to.
Britt, what, I’m going to rent a magazine?
NYCWD, Maxim’s still going strong – it’s the one that managed to survive.
Kathy, I have boxes of old magazines – occasionally I go through and purge them.
Dr. Zibbs, yup. Except they have ads now, which makes me sad.
Sybil Law, I’m like a financial whiz.
Robin, Playboy still has quite a few interesting interviews.
Hello, between that and the comics, yeah!
Laurin, have you tried Lucky?
Hilly, so you’re a magazinaphobe? Way to be a hater!
Summer, I just read a lot. And very quickly.
Amanda, Maxim used to be much funnier, but it just feels like it’s gotten misogynistic recently.
Laurin, I’ll have to look for that.
Whall, noooooooooo!
Valerie, I’ve read “The Week” and it’s pretty interesting.
Faiqa, this I know!
Kapgar, my list used to be twice as long, too.
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THanks, Adam, I think the Mental Floss would be kind of cool.
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It seems I’m not the only one that thinks Maxim has lost all of it’s allure.
The Playboy subscription here is read by both my wife and I.
I used to subscribe to at least 20 magazines back in the day, but I freelanced for some of them, so that counted for at least 5.
I’m now down to 2: Playboy and Vanity Fair. I ran out of time reading all of the others or they failed to keep me informed.
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Maxim has turned into one BIG HUGE ad with an article stuck in between the pages.
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I thought I was the only one with a magazine problem…and I only subscribe to 13. The thing is that I wait until I see them going for $5 a year and then I renew.. even 2 years at a time for that price. Yup, it’s bad.
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It’s amazing, 5 years ago I used to read magazines like it was my job, yet for some reason today I rarely ever read them. They just end up in piles stacked throughout my house…then eventually recycled or thrown out.
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