actually read the magazines I subscribe to from cover to cover for 3 months in a row

I stopped subscribing to so-called “women’s” magazines a long time ago. They had no substance and I just felt bad about myself because I didn’t feel that I measured up to the women featured in the magazines. I also realized I don’t like being manipulated into believing I “need” certain things to be hip and/or cool. So I started subscribing to The Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s awhile ago, but I rarely get to read each one thoroughly before the next one comes, and I end up with a back-log of magazines that I never get to. Add to that the professional journals I get and it’s sheer craziness with the magazines. I can’t justify spending the money, no matter how worthwhile the content, if I don’t ever get to it. I enjoy them when I read them, I just get wrapped up in other things. Bad, bad, bad. If I can do it for 3 months, I think I’m okay.