Monday's Question of the Day - April 11, 2016

Welcome to a new week everyone!  I hope the weather is improving for those of you who have been dealing with some unseasonable nastiness out there!  My poor DD was upset the pink flowers on one of our trees were frozen in the cold snap.  We planted them as little saplings a couple years ago and this is the first year we have a decent flowering on the tree. And it's now taller than DD.  I planted 2; the other isn't as tall and only got a few flowers.  Maybe next year!

Do you subscribe to any magazines or newspapers?  Or are there any you pick up from time to time off the rack in the store? How do you organize your magazines or newspapers?

I have 4 magazine subscriptions.  I get Organic Gardening/Organic Life (my Grandpa has been gifting this to me for a few years), Parents, Family Fun and Better Homes and Gardens.  This month's Organic Life has peaches on the cover and now I want a good fresh peach SO bad!    I need to plant a peach tree or two!    I may not renew my Parents subscription. I'm not sure about Better Homes and Gardens.  My mother gifted me Family Fun. They all have some great stuff in them; I just get backed up with my reading.  

I'm in the process of cleaning off my desk; hence the question today!  I usually only keep a year's worth unless there is something extra special in it.  For example; a few years ago Parents had a great issue with tons of really fun birthday party ideas for kids.  If I ever get more organized I'll try a binder with articles i've clipped out.     The rest get recycled.  I keep putting off buying magazine holders.  They just seem expensive for what they are.  I need a shelf for those too.

My kids have a subscription to High5 also.  I think we might switch to Highlights when this one is up since DD is just beginning to learn to read.  My mother gets the subscription for the kids for Christmas; so it'll be a while.  (High 5 is a younger version of Highlights.)

I have a few other magazines I resist subscribing to but I'll pick up from time to time.  Traditional Home is one.  Just a beautiful publication.  Tuscan Style is another one.  I forget how often that is published; I don't think it's done more than a few times a year.  I occasionally pick up Birds and Blooms or another gardening magazine.  I think I have a few copies of Mother Earth here.  

Don't tell my husband; but my mother sent me home with 2 big stacks of old magazines the other day.     These are for the kids to cut pictures out of though!  

I subscribe to a monthly German cat magazine. Once I've read it, I take it to the shelter for my co-workers to read. Once we had internet, I cancelled just about all my magazine subscriptions and rarely pick any up at newsstands.

Oh my. I subscribe to SO many. All free with the exception of 2. 

Catster (formerly Cat Fancy)- this one is paid but I will not renew. I prefer the way it used to be. 

Cosmo (free)

Us Weekly (free)

Glamour (free)

Time (free)

Wine Spectator (free)

Taste of Home (free)

Rolling Stone (free)

Vogue (free)

Real Simple (free)

People (free)

W (free)

Entertainment Weekly (free)

Playboy (paid)- this one DH used to subscribe too. I found it for free years ago and signed up in my name. When I got it, I called the magazine's customer service and rolled mine into his. I did the same thing under the dog's name  . DH used to give the magazine to FIL after he read them. MIL doesn't care that he reads it. She just doesn't want it delivered to their house. When it's getting close to expiring, I find a good deal online and renew it for him. After DH passed away, I put the subscription in my name. I put them aside and give them to him when he comes down. 

I think that there are more that I am forgetting. I might have to add them later...    

I don't subscribe, but I really like Time magazine. I like to bring one or two issues with me when I travel, makes for good reading on the plane.

I subscribe to a few cooking magazine (Bon Appetit, Saveur, Food and Wine) and an architectural one specifically for Bungalow style homes.  

We used to get National Geographic because Tom really enjoyed it but he kept forgetting they were there to read so, I dropped it.

I can find most things online at magazine websites, which is why I don't subscribe to many any longer.  The cooking ones are mostly because I enjoy looking at them larger than on a cell phone (!) and, I'm able to give them to one of my nieces who likes to cook, once done reading them.

AARP magazine, Woman's Day, The Herb Quarterly, A Taste of Home, Catster.  I have magazine holders, those file thingies, and each year I clear out, scanning articles I want to keep to my computer.

Mamanyt1953 said:

 
AARP magazine, Woman's Day, The Herb Quarterly, A Taste of Home, Catster.  I have magazine holders, those file thingies, and each year I clear out, scanning articles I want to keep to my computer.

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Haha I get AARP also but totally forgot about since technically, I don't subscribe. I guess it comes with being a member.  I actually do read it LOL

sivyaleah said:

 
Haha I get AARP also but totally forgot about since technically, I don't subscribe. I guess it comes with being a member.  I actually do read it LOL

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Some of my most reliable information comes from that mag.  Along with the "newsletter" that is more of a newspaper. 

sivyaleah said:

 
Haha I get AARP also but totally forgot about since technically, I don't subscribe. I guess it comes with being a member.  I actually do read it LOL

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No AARP but I do get a magazine from AAA, The Humane Times from the Humane Society and PETA's Animal Times. I knew there was more. I used to get All You but that one is gone now. I also get Woman's Day (free) and Good Housekeeping (free). I could start a library. 

I subscribe to

Readers Digest

Simple Grace

Eastern Living

Good HouseKeeping



When done, I pass them; on to my daughter-in-law, church folks or the thrift store. None go in the dumpster.

I no longer subscribe due to all the ads and unrelated articles in most magazines that I once enjoyed (IE: food magazine.. why are they sharing beauty secrets? it's a FOOD magazine). But the ads has gotten out of control I feel it's not worth it anymore.

On that note, my grandmother signed me up to two magazines because she felt like being nice (which is rare for her). It was Rachael Ray and Home & Gardens magazine. These arent too bad in ways of advertisements, but nothing ever holds me interest in these magazines. I usually skim them to talk to my grandmother about them on the phone, lol.

Oh.. yea. When I take trips, especially on planes, I buy a few magazines to keep me occupied. whatever looks good on the stand I grab (usually fish-keeping, photoshop or cat related)

after I am done with them, I usually leave them in the laundry room for others to read in my complex

jcat said:

Once we had internet, I cancelled just about all my magazine subscriptions and rarely pick any up at newsstands.

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     I still get Cooking Light magazine, though I may go to the online version of that soon, too.

The way I "organize" them is to stack them up in a pile on the laundry room counter until DH says he's done looking at them (this process takes months).  

I subscribe to Catster magazine.

Occasionally I will pick up Simple, Food Network, or Cooking Light at the grocery store. It depends on how much reading I feel like doing at the time.

I'm subscribed to Pointe Magazine.




I also read BBC History - I would subscribe to it, but it's really expensive   actually cheaper to pick it up individually. 



Other magazines I enjoy: Archaeology, Military History Magazines, Horse Magazines and the occasional doggy one, like Canadian Dogs. I tend to not always be drawn by animal ones (Ironic, me being the huge animal lover), on account that many seem to be pushing into homeopathy/holistic routes, something I'm not into, nor even think highly of whatsoever  .



 

Cook's Illustrated

Cook's Country

Sports Illustrated

Mother Earth News

Prevention - My GF subscribes and she gets two free subscriptions, so she gave one to me. I don't read it anymore.

Garden Gate - A nice magazine about gardening with flowers. Lots of ideas. Lots of pictures.

AARP magazine - Because Rick joined. I think it's a complete waste of money and time; all we really get from AARP is cascaded with mailings about insurances and now Medicare stuff. Just more crap in our mailbox that we have to shred and recycle.

I cancelled my Taste of Home subscription years ago because many of the recipes became mostly all about convenience foods and we don't use them enough to make a subscription worthwhile and because most of the magazine is now ads. I had been a subscriber from the time the magazine first came out.

We cancelled our Consumer Reports subscription because we have an online subscription. If there's something we're interested in, we'll check the item out on the computer.

I buy Sift (a King Arthur magazine) from time to time at the books store; the only store I can find it in around here is at a Barnes and Noble store in town. Not many places carry it yet.

I keep my issues of Cook's Country and Cook's Illustrated; Rick keeps a few Sports Illustrated issues from time to time. We keep the issues of Garden Gate. Everything else goes into the magazine recycling pile and then on to the recycling center. 

Nasty weather here today. :lol3:

For me -

Yankee
Rhode Island Monthly
Eating Well

For Aaron -

Zymurgy
Brew your Own
WineMaker

I like Craft magazines

just a newspaper subscription, for The Wall Street Journal. i have no interest in reading it, it's used for starting fires in the wood stove. it's a free subscription, earned by doing some surveys online -- thank you, @Kat0121!

mickNsnicks2mom said:

 
just a newspaper subscription, for The Wall Street Journal. i have no interest in reading it, it's used for starting fires in the wood stove. it's a free subscription, earned by doing some surveys online -- thank you, @Kat0121!

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You're welcome! I used some of mine to start the barbecue and some I gave to a co worker to line her bird cage

sivyaleah said:

 
We used to get National Geographic because Tom really enjoyed it but he kept forgetting they were there to read so, I dropped it.

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National Geographic has a few children's magazines.  I keep meaning to pick up a copy in the store to see if thats something the kids would enjoy.  I thought about a subscription for me;but I've got enough coming in for now. 

Kat0121 said:

. I could start a library. 

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I think thats putting it mildly!    One of the doctor's offices I worked in; we had multiple copies of quite a few magazines delivered.  At one time the practice had something like 6-7 doctors and it was very busy! But at that point it was just one doctor in the process of closing the practice.  My boss never had an issue with me taking a magazine here and there.  So many went unread and the ones I wanted were previous months anyway.  Worked out for me! 

blueyedgirl5946 said:

I subscribe to

Readers Digest

 

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I used to love Readers Digest!  My Grandma always got that and I started picking it up at her house to read the funny little things they'd print after articles.  I had a subscription for a few years; but I dropped it when life just got too busy.

Draco said:

On that note, my grandmother signed me up to two magazines because she felt like being nice (which is rare for her). It was Rachael Ray and Home & Gardens magazine. These arent too bad in ways of advertisements, but nothing ever holds me interest in these magazines. I usually skim them to talk to my grandmother about them on the phone, lol.

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  You never want Grandma to feel like her gifts are unappreciated!  My Grandma had this thing about putting things away for certain people DECADES before they were needed.  She had a drawer in her dresser stashed full of bras.  The first or 2nd Christmas after I got married she sent me a package with new but very old nightgowns.  My Mom thought one was an old style nursing gown at first!     Oddly enough; one of my friends thought they were awesome so I gave them to her. Vintage!!    They also fit her.  I am not built like that side of my family; even when I'm thin I have more curves than they do.  Height too. Needless to say; I never benefited from her bra stash.