stop subscribing to magazines that I don't read, and start reading the magazines to which I've subscribed

well, it was time to let my new yorker subscription go. the guilt about not having enough time to really read it and recycling so much paper at the end of the month/week was too much to outweigh what i was getting out of it. i’m down to to 2 subscriptions now. one thing i have noticed, though…the less magazines i subscribe to, the MORE junk catalogs i get! how frustrating! recycle, recycle, recycle.

Well, it’s a start anyways. I let all but two of my subscriptions lapse, and I’ve been making time each month to read those two. I’ve even given away all my back issues! Except my Marthas, of course, I won’t be giving up those. :)

and it was heavenly. :) Can’t remember the last time I did that, but my son was playing so happily in the sandbox that I actually managed to sit underneath our beautiful maple tree and read for an hour completely uninterrupted. FTR, it was my new favourite magazine, Blueprint.

I have found a pile of interesting magazines that I have never read. I also get at least two magazines every month that I just pass on to other people;’ I have no idea how I ever got subscribed to Outsider or to Redbook!

i’ve let my TIME and NEWSWEEK subscriptions run out. i figure they’re kind of redundant, anyway, not to mention a waste of paper, too, when i can read the news on the web. i’d still like to be able to keep up with THE NEW YORKER but man, is it dense! too much to get through in one week. i think the next subscription i’ll let run out is ALTERNATIVE HEALTH, then RUNNER’S WORLD. i feel so guilty having to recycle so much that i don’t have time to read.

I think I just need to stop renewing my subscriptions. I can’t keep up with even just the New Yorker. The other day, I got a bill from the New Yorker thanking me for renewing my subscription. I don’t even remember renewing it! Maybe that’s just a marketing ploy. I fell for it and sent a check. Hopeless…

I realized that I was buying magazines based on other people’s interest. I started subscribing to magazines that reflected the life I wanted to live, Robb Report, Worth, Forbes. My life changed because I started exposing myself to the details of the lifestyle I wanted and then started finding the tools to get there. The Gossip Rags weren’t doing anything for my life’s progression…and made entirely too much clutter.

I spare myself the guilt of recycling piles of magazines I haven’t read

...who subscribes to magazines that she doesn’t have time to read?