What Magazines do you subscribe to?

[Crystallas]

Two of my subscriptions are running out this summer(Stuff and Forbes.)

I prefer being online, but I gotta have magazines in my house for bathroom reading material and stuff to put on my coffee table for when my clients come early for appointments.

I like both Stuff and Forbes a lot, but I think I might change these 2 for something else. I have a lifetime to National Geographic, and Computer Magazine, a subscription to something called Illinois Entertainer. I also have subscriptions that were part of rebates, memberships, and stockholder periodicals such as Popular Electronics, Entrapanuer, Accelorate, FHM, Game Informer, and Readers Digest.

I was wondering what magazines other people here subscribe to and what they think of them.

If you only need them for bathroom reading material, why not just purchase used ones at the local thrift shop or something? I used to buy magazines at a secondhand store for only $0.10 a piece. They weren't all that old either, many just a couple of months behind.

[Crystallas]

Im actually not looking to "save money" on my magazines.

[PauletteGoddard]

Originally Posted by Crystallas

Two of my subscriptions are running out this summer(Stuff and Forbes.)

I prefer being online, but I gotta have magazines in my house for bathroom reading material and stuff to put on my coffee table for when my clients come early for appointments.

I was wondering what magazines other people here subscribe to and what they think of them.

I subscribe to Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, Canadian Living, RoadRunner magazine (for sport-touring motorcyclists and scooterists), and Taste of Home. I haven't yet received my Yes! first issue yet, Canadian Living is a gift subscription from my stepmother and I love it because it's not about losing weight or diets unless the whole family is wanting to be more fit, there are no celebrity profiles but instead profiles of people improving their community or the lots of others. RoadRunner is my fantasy dream magazine -- two-wheel expeditions in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. Taste of Home has great recipes, is edited by "a thousand country cooks" and its only advertisements are for sister publications.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

The internet has really eaten into my "need" for magazines. I subscribe to only one current events / analysis type magazine for myself but my husband reads it, too. Another of the same sort he subscribes to and I also read. Then we get National Geographic, Discover, and Scientific American for the kids. To read them I have to go to find them in their bedrooms. Some computer related magazines are read by one son and my husband, but they are free, the subscriptions having been giving us years ago when husband was in the business.

Sometimes when I need to get out for a couple of hours, I go to the library and basically just look at the pictures in art, garden, and home magazines!

[shengmei]

There are plenty of free magazines you can subscribe to. I get them all the time.

By "free" I don't mean the free trial magazines you get for a month or two. I mean the religious/politicial/scientific magazines that support themselves with advertisements or donations.

[debtfreeme]

Self, Health, Marie Claire, and Kiplingers.

I think i am not going to renew Kiplingers, it was just not what I am looking for. I think I am going to go back to Money magazine.

I read at the gym. Easy, portable and if i lose them i am not so upset as if i lost a book. And the subscriptions are no more than 12 a year so that is a dollar a month for each magazine. Works for me!

[Crystallas]

How do you like Kiplingers?

[shengmei]

Originally Posted by lisasayzhi

If you only need them for bathroom reading material, why not just purchase used ones at the local thrift shop or something? I used to buy magazines at a secondhand store for only $0.10 a piece. They weren't all that old either, many just a couple of months behind.

That's a great idea!!! Especially since by the time you get those used magazines you can actually use them to shop the 75% off clearances.

I love Christmas magazines. They help me plan after-Christmas shopping.

[poundwise]

I find that most fiancial magazines just regurgitate the same information over and over. My opinion is that while it may be entertaining, it usually isn't helpful long-term to read more than a couple of issues per year.

For the record, of the mags I have read over the last couple of years, I do like Kiplingers and also Money magazine and I do not like Smart Money. I am familar with Forbes, but I do not have an opinion on it one way or the other.

Also: Investor's Business Daily is good IMO.

[jmjj215]

Wall Street Journal all the way. And even though a lot of it is available online, there's something about having the hardcopy in hand that I really enjoy.

[Ima saver]

I have subscribed to Money magazine for years!

[lrjohnson]

New Yorker - I'm devoted, have had a subscription for a darned long time. I get value out of it, no plans to stop.

Kiplingers - new subscription, it was $3.59, have not read yet

Esquire - we have an on/off relationship. I got a good $12 deal (pre-challenge.)

Consumer Reports - just let it lapse, but may eventually renew

Budget Travel - I got as a gift.

Funny Times - great but pricy. Will probably let lapse.

Others I enjoy reading: The Sun, Bitch! (A feminist Take on Popular Culture), Mother Earth news, Economist

Subscriptions run in the family. When I was about 9, we counted that our household had 31 subscriptions, one for every day of the month - most were my dads.

[jodi]

I have subscribed to Reader's Digest for years and probably always will. The last offer I had was about $15 for three years, found online. If you are looking for magazines to put out for clients, I don't think you can beat Readers Digest in terms of having something that will interest everyone.
DH subscribes to a teaching magazine and occasionally a sports magazine. I am also given magazines from my SIL and mother (Parenting, Ladies Home Journal) - both good magazines, but nothing I would pay for myself.
I just discovered a section in a local library that gives away all their old magazines - many only 2-3 months old. They had a huge variety - People, Taste of Home, Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, etc. That's the first place I will go from now on if I need something to read.

[Fern]

1. Money
2. Birds 'N Bloom

I really like Cottage Home and More (for owmen over 40) looks pretty good too.

[boefixepa]

None, can't justify it with the internet. I do like reader's digest, but more for the stories and library and any office has them lying around. I just can't bring myself to do it. Not to mention the JUNK MAIL! There was a time years back I subscribed to Reader Digest, my gosh! I was slammed with tons of junk mail. No thanks.

[Crystallas]

This might sound cheezy, but I recycle all that junk mail LOL.

Someone picks up all the paper once a month, and I get around $40 for just the paper.
Then again, running an at home buisness brings in a lot of paper. Last year I brought in $700 n paper and $3800 on aluminum. I just wish this place did plastic too, then I'd be set, but I'd have nowhere to keep the darn stuff. I leave that for the city recycling to take anyways. I figgure if you gotta recycle, may aswell do it for a buck.

[debtfreeme]

I am not wild about Kiplingers. The first year was free so i only paid 7 for two years. I like Money better. I am the kind of person who learns through examples and i think the money has some that make more sense to me than Kiplingers. So for 7 dollars for 24 months, not bad.

[getforfree]

Originally Posted by Crystallas

This might sound cheezy, but I recycle all that junk mail LOL.

Someone picks up all the paper once a month, and I get around $40 for just the paper.
Then again, running an at home buisness brings in a lot of paper. Last year I brought in $700 n paper and $3800 on aluminum. I just wish this place did plastic too, then I'd be set, but I'd have nowhere to keep the darn stuff. I leave that for the city recycling to take anyways. I figgure if you gotta recycle, may aswell do it for a buck.

Which company does that? I would rather do it for the money than just give it to the city trash and recycling which also charges me every months. I don't want to give them anything, especcially if I can make a few $$ on it.

[Crystallas]

I have an open business account with my local waste company that contracted by groot.