I like magazines
I stopped at Target on the way to work this morning to use their plumbing. (Ours was fixed today, you’d never even know the front yard had a big ditch and baby Bobcat parked on it last night.) I also bought an Us Weekly magazine as incentive and reward for my recent gym activity. I did 1:10 on the elliptical this evening, getting in my 30-90 minutes of exercise as recommended by pretty much everybody who makes these kinds of recommendations. I still have half the magazine to read next time — I also watched “The Office” on closed-captioning — and I took home a copy of Family Circle to read before returning in a bit.
I have subscriptions to the following magazines:
- Time
- O: The Oprah Magazine
- Real Simple
- Craft
- People (a present from somebody last Christmas, I still don’t know who, thank you anonymous gifter!)
- USA Hockey (not really mine, it comes with his recreation league hockey membership, but I read it more than he does.)
I would enjoy subscriptions to:
- Good Housekeeping
- Family Circle
- Woman’s Day
- Us Weekly
- Newsweek
- Lucky
- Taste of Home
If I had extra money lying around I’d get two or three dozen magazines every month, easy, considering that some of them are weekly. What would I do with all of them? Bring them to the gym, leave them in the breakroom at work, keep the bathroom fully stocked, give them to friends. What I do now, basically, but on a grander scale.
I’ve always liked magazines. When I was maybe 15 I subscribed to Country and its sister publication Gardens and Flowers or something like that, and probably their cousin Taste of Home for awhile. I looked forward to my mom’s Guidepost and Reader’s Digest to arrive every month too. Maybe one day I’ll work for a magazine. I’ll be your editorial assistant any day, Susan K. Reed editor in chief of O!
Edit: I just reread my magazine lists again, and I’m pretty sure that I’m a 41-year-old married working mother of two.
Brandon replied:
Don’t you mean 2.5?
October 17, 2008 at 12:30 am. Permalink.
amylee replied:
This is interesting, because for 5 years (and 4 address changes) I have been receiving TONS of magazines having paid for NONE of them. I get renewal notices, but never feel the need to renew since I’ve never asked for any of these magazines! I get:
-Metropolitan Home (which I really enjoy)
-Working Mother (kinda applicable now, but for the last 4 years, just strange)
-Parents (similar to above)
-Golf Tips (coincidently Pat and I have started golfing again – perhaps because of tips)
-Outdoor Photography (with time & money – I’d LOVE to be an outdoor photographer)
-Inc. (amazingly applicable when Pat and I would love to start a company)
-Ladies Home Journal (only read this a handful of times, mainly skim for cool images)
-and several other’s that aren’t nearly as applicable…
October 17, 2008 at 7:48 am. Permalink.