Average Jane’s Old-School Entertainment

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Despite the fact that I spend hours online reading anything and everything that catches my eye, I’m still rather fond of magazines. I’ve cut back on the number of magazine subscriptions I keep, but that’s just made the selection appear more eclectic and random.

Here’s the current list of magazines I receive:

I have a few newsstand favorites as well. I usually seek out the latest issue of Found Magazine (I should probably just subscribe) and no plane ride would be complete without an issue of Cosmopolitan or Glamour, neither of which I read at any other time.

One magazine we always had when I was growing up was Reader’s Digest.
It doesn’t appeal to me now, but I remember liking it then. Every
year, my great-aunt would send us a gift subscription for Christmas.
She even managed to reach from beyond the grave to send it to us.
Months after she died, the Christmas gift card from Reader’s Digest
arrived as usual, marking the final year we’d ever get the magazine.

Most of the subscriptions I’ve dropped have better online counterparts. For example, I don’t need magazines full of recipes when there’s AllRecipes.com and I certainly don’t need to read a weekly news magazine when I can go to Google News and view its huge selection of feeds several times a day. (I know – an RSS reader would be even better, but I haven’t liked the ones I’ve played with so far.)

What are your favorite magazines? Do you subscribe to anything really unusual, just out of curiousity (and I am SO not asking for TMI here, people)? Have you dropped any magazines in favor of online content? I’m interested to know.

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4 responses to “Average Jane’s Old-School Entertainment”

March 10, 2005

Pharmgirl

I accidentally subscribed to “Better Homes and Gardens”. I was thinking “Good Housekeeping”. It was a super-cheap deal, so I went for it. Unfortunately, reading “Better Homes and Gardens” is about as interesting as watching paint dry..but I PAID for it, damnit! *yawn* I do love my subscription to “Health”, though. Very interesting tidbits and it’s a perfect format for those with short attention spans, such as myself!

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March 10, 2005

Cagey

Currently, I subscribe to National Geographic. However, I buy People and US Weekly from the newstands – much like I supported my cigarette habit, I can’t bear to SUBSCRIBE to them. When I was a smoker, I was loathe to buy a whole carton, because that would be admitting I had PROBLEM. Buying one pack at a time lulled me into a false sense of “I can quit at any time”.

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March 10, 2005

Daisy

I used to buy far too many internet/computing magazines but stopped cold turkey the day I realised that I was reading the same and better information on the internet, particularly for standards issues.
If I could have a subscription to any magazine it would be Good Housekeeping or Private Eye (bi-weekly British satirical publication).

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March 11, 2005

Goofy Girl

I love, love, love Prevention magazine. I always pick up something new from each issue and it makes me feel healthy just reading it (even if I don’t have time to execute all the advice). I also picked up a Women’s Health recently (formerly Self) and really liked it.
My guilty pleasure is reading my husband’s GQ magazine. It’s interesting reading what the “other side” thinks, and the technology reviews are to die for.

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