How many? Newspaper and magazine subscriptions.

[Deleted]

Part of the fun on here is doing comparisons.  I did tell DH a few months ago that I was going to let a lot of my subscriptions expire.  I got them all really cheap, though.  Now that I'm not getting as many, I have started missing some of them.  These are actual newspaper and magazines that arrive at your home.

DH:
Wall Street Journal (about $30 a month)
USA Today (subscription not available so $2 a day)
Time (no idea)
Sports Illustrated (free with CC points that were going to expire)
The Smithsonian
Air & Space
Family Handyman

Me:
Birmingham News ($150 a year . . . I pay at one time)
Real Simple (pricey . . . about $24 a year but I pay with CokeRewards points).  This is my favorite.
Reader's Digest (multiple year subscription with at least two years left.  Probably $3 or $4 a year).
Ladies' Home Journal ($4.99 a year)--letting this one go in June
Rachael Ray (multiple year subscription with at least two years left.  Probably $3 or $4 a year).

Expired:
Good Housekeeping.
Redbook.
Family Circle.
Kiplinger's.

Just renewed or purchased (me):
All You ($5 for the year and supposedly they have great coupons, the reason I bought it)
Kiplinger ($6.99 for the year . . . I miss reading a money magazine.)

[Deleted]

I'm down to one newspaper and three magazines.

They are really cheap now but I would let them pile up and it was annoying me.

 A couple of them only come 4X a yr.

[milee]

This makes me feel like a dinosaur, but I still really enjoy the physical feeling of a paper or magazine to read. And I have tried on and off over the years to cancel the subscriptions and read them online, but just don't seem to get the same amount of content online for some reason. The WSJ is a good example - I broke down and just admitted I need the physical paper, which I read, thoroughly enjoy and scour for about 30 minutes each day. When I had the online subscription, I'd maybe be drawn to click on 5-10 articles and read it for less than 10 minutes. For some reason, I must need to briefly scan a small bit of the content to interest me in reading an article, just a headline isn't enough to get me to click.   So that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I get (off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more that I'm missing):

WSJ

Local paper - because there is a reasonable amount of local event info they don't post on their website

Cooks Illustrated

Bon Appetit

Clean Eating

Oxygen

Runner's World

Men's Health

Read online regularly:

CNN

Huffington Post

NYT

Daily Beast

Read online once a week or so:

Forbes

Kiplinger

Time

Newsweek

I go on and off with the Economist.  When I have a subscription, I enjoy it, but then by the time the subscription runs out, it feels like maybe a chore so I don't renew.  Then a year or so goes by and I miss it or see an interesting article on the newsstand and pick it up again.  Apparently, I can't quit it. 

[Cookies Galore]

We have subscriptions to Food & Wine, National Geographic, and Popular Mechanics (or is it Science?). I pay for F&W, the other two are gift subscriptions for hubs. I will purchase Real Simple, Allure, and other food magazines on occasion. I read a lot of magazine content online but i like having a physical copy of food-related magazines.
I love reading a real newspaper but I read my news online. I'd have better luck flushing money down the toilet than having a paper delivered to our apartment building.

[Malarky]

Local paper, 4 days a week.  Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times...occasionally.

I'm not really a magazine reader.  I'll make the motions of flipping through in the doctor or dentist office, but I find that I don't read anything, so it's all wasted on me. 

It must have been ordered for a fundraiser...Vogue arrived every month for a year...recycled-unread. 

[Peace77]

A family member gives me a subscription to Guideposts each year.
I occasionally buy a Reader's Digest.  The rest of my reading is online or at the library.

[Deleted]

We get the local paper. The cost kills me but they do a good job of local reporting and I want to support that.

No magazines except, inexplicably, Progressive Farmer, which is addressed to the couple who sold us this house- in 2003. They haven't billed us yet.

Occasionally I leaf through magazines at the library but there's not enough content to motivate me to subscribe.

[Artemis Windsong]

The morning newspaper is a life-long read and a must have.  Relish and Parade come with it.

Outside
InTouch
Snowtrax
Elk's
2 sports magazines
1 sports newspaper

I have access to a lot of magazines online for fitness articles.

[swamp]

I used to get time, Newsweek, glamour, and Cosmo, and 2 local papers. 

I now get just one local paper. Damn kids. 

[Cookies Galore]

Oh yeah! We used to get the previous tenants' delivery of Dwell. That was nice!

[milee]

Feb 20, 2014 21:02:56 GMT -5 @athena53 said:

No magazines except, inexplicably, Progressive Farmer

I have to know - do you read it?  What type of stuff does Progressive Farmer usually feature? 

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

We have 2 newspaper subscriptions come in, one the local paper and the second the Seattle paper. I receive:
Cook's Illustrated
Bon Appetit
Food and Wine

TD receives:
National Geographic
Time
Consumer Reports
3-4 shooting magazines
several professional ones
there are a few I'm missing, but am too lazy to go look at the stack.

[milee]

Feb 20, 2014 21:08:18 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

Oh yeah! We used to get the previous tenants' delivery of Dwell. That was nice!

Oooo - love Dwell. Sometimes I pick it up before a vacation so I can read the house porn. I have to resist actually getting a subscription, though, because I'm trying to hold off tearing down and rebuilding our current house for a while and that magazine would make building something new, funky and fabulous very tempting.

[Nazgul Girl]

   Time and Consumers Report from my father for Christmas, costing ( ? ), Coders Edge from my coding organization  (paid for as part of my membership dues, which are paid by my employer,  and Investech for the Jim Stack stocks for my husband's stock newsletter.   I want to drop the Investech stuff, but he wants to keep doing it, so $ 150 per year for that thing.        Dad wants the news sent out to everybody on the stock changes, but he won't pay for the dang newsletter.   Oh well.   

[MN-Investor]

The first thing I did when I graduated from college and got an apartment was to get a subscription to the daily morning newspaper. I still enjoy it, but more and more I get my news from the internet.

Our magazines:

Kiplinger's
Money
Consumer Reports
Cooks Illustrated
Cooks Country
Reader's Digest
Autoweek
Classic Trucks

Within the past year I discovered that over 100 magazines are available to download from our county library system, so I can download and keep any of those magazines. I read them on my mini-tablet. Only two downsides to that: it's not the easiest to read them on a mini-tablet, and, as pdf files with lots of graphics, they take up a lot of space on my tablet. It does look like I can read them online with my laptop, so I'll have to check that out.

So... see if your local library has magazines free to read via Zinio. (Some of the ones available through the Hennepin County library system: Astronomy, Bloomberg Businessweek, Car and Driver, Eating Well, The Economist, Forbes, Good Housekeeping).  

[raeoflyte]

I don't have any. Dh gets 2 professional magazines every other month or so but the cost is included with some yearly certifications.

I dutifully read the covers when waiting in line at the grocery store.

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[milee]

Feb 20, 2014 21:56:59 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

I dutifully read the covers when waiting in line at the grocery store.

Me, too. But - and yes, this will confirm I am ancient - I really miss the crazy "natural" phenomenon headlines that the Enquirer type magazines used to have. I loved standing in line and giggling about the latest alien abduction, three headed baby and Loch Ness Monster sightings. Now all the headlines are about [gag] "celebrities".  I don't care about any of these people at all, much less who they're marrying, who they're divorcing, who they're cheating with and which one has cellulite or the worst bathing suit body. Bring back the stories about Big Foot's love child, please!

[grits]

I take a regional newspaper. I can read all the magazines I want at the library.

Southernsusana, It surprises me that their is no USA Today subscription.  People here subscribed, and it is delivered every week day through the mail.   

[justme]

I got ride of all my magazines. Even the Food Network one, it was hard to get through all the magazines (and I still have a lot to go through).

I still get Sunday paper for the coupons. I think it was less than $20 for a year for two Sunday subscriptions. Not sure I'll renew them though.

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Feb 20, 2014 22:00:34 GMT -5 milee said:

Feb 20, 2014 21:56:59 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

I dutifully read the covers when waiting in line at the grocery store.

Me, too. But - and yes, this will confirm I am ancient - I really miss the crazy "natural" phenomenon headlines that the Enquirer type magazines used to have. I loved standing in line and giggling about the latest alien abduction, three headed baby and Loch Ness Monster sightings. Now all the headlines are about [gag] "celebrities".  I don't care about any of these people at all, much less who they're marrying, who they're divorcing, who they're cheating with and which one has cellulite or the worst bathing suit body. Bring back the stories about Big Foot's love child, please!

I miss those too. The Weekly World News had the funniest headlines.

I don't know if that is around anymore. I never see it.

[sheilaincali]

I sometimes buy an issue of HGTV Magazine on my iPad but that's it.

Our local newspaper sucks donkey balls so it's a complete waste of money.  However if you "like" them on fb they let you read some of the articles on line.  I rarely bother with it. 

DH buys the occassional comic book but other than that an my E version of one magazine that's it for us.

[Blonde Granny]

We just received a great deal on our local paper, so I subscribed.  I don't bother to read it but DH likes it.

thats all we subscribe to.

[teen persuasion]

Feb 20, 2014 22:00:34 GMT -5 milee said:

Feb 20, 2014 21:56:59 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

I dutifully read the covers when waiting in line at the grocery store.

Me, too. But - and yes, this will confirm I am ancient - I really miss the crazy "natural" phenomenon headlines that the Enquirer type magazines used to have. I loved standing in line and giggling about the latest alien abduction, three headed baby and Loch Ness Monster sightings. Now all the headlines are about [gag] "celebrities".  I don't care about any of these people at all, much less who they're marrying, who they're divorcing, who they're cheating with and which one has cellulite or the worst bathing suit body. Bring back the stories about Big Foot's love child, please!

I'm not currently getting any magazines, since I can pick up any that hit my eye at work. I tend to grab one of the money ones to read on my lunch hour, or bring home a DIY one.

There are quite a few magazines that never go out, and we are not planning to renew them: sports illustrated, Yankee, discover, vogue.  The gossip rags are by far the most popular magazines. We only added them to the collection because they sent us a few free issues, and they took off. Next most popular are the food and shelter magazines, and consumer reports/smart shopping type.

[Gardening Grandma]

Both of us
Nutrition in Action


DH
Hotrodder
some other hotrod magazine

Me
4 genealogy journals specific to Louisiana

[resolution]

I cancelled all my magazines a few years ago when I decided to simplify my life, but I will occasionally pick up a random trashy one to read on the plane when I am travelling. The key is to get rid of it before it enters the house, or it will end up on my old magazine pile.

DH subscribes to Fine Homebuilding and the Catholic Review. The Catholic Review was actually my fault because I was curious, but after I decided I didn't like it he didn't want to get rid of it.

[resolution]

Feb 20, 2014 22:35:23 GMT -5 @anne81 said:

Me, too. But - and yes, this will confirm I am ancient - I really miss the crazy "natural" phenomenon headlines that the Enquirer type magazines used to have. I loved standing in line and giggling about the latest alien abduction, three headed baby and Loch Ness Monster sightings. Now all the headlines are about [gag] "celebrities".

I really miss the Weekly World News - the last headlines I remember on the newstand were "Vegan Vampires decimate Forest" and "Bin Laden found in Hunting Cabin in Minnesota"

They still have a website: weeklyworldnews.com/

It looks like they have an article about the Dalai Lama moving into the Playboy Mansion and "Global Cooling Threatens Earth"

My favorite headline was "Alien Plant Eats Cow!"

[busymom]

We get the Sunday paper. I'd love to get the paper every day, but there's just no time to read it, & it would just pile up.

Our magazines include: Reader's Digest, Money & Women's Day. We've cut back on magazines, again, because we just don't have the time to read them.

[Sunnyday]

I read 4 newspapers a day. But I don't pay for it.

I always find ways to get around paying for it; google searching and news works best. But it gets harder and harder. I might have to break down and start paying for the NYtimes.

The only subscription that we pay for is the Economist. I love the Economist!! Their quality is top notch, and they really have a good sense of humor about things too. Their application is awesome too. Yhey have audio, so sometimes, I'll listen to it when I'm doing chores.

I do not read local newspapers. I don't read any special interest magazines. Occasionally, I will read the gossip
magazines at the grocery store or doctor's office to keep me current on pop culture.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

I get the Sunday Paper - that's it. Used to get it delivered daily, but ended up taking it to work to read on breaks - usually not having the time to do more than skim it - so I canceled. I'm considering canceling the Sunday paper too -since it's mostly fliers and ads - pretty much all of it gets tossed into recycling. I do still have a lifetime subscription to National Geographic - which was a gift.

Any magazines (Cosmo, NewsWeek, etc) - I buy as needed at the checkout.

[Shooby]

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