Althouse: Number of magazines I counted on the floor of my bedroom when I realized my habit of throwing magazines on the floor was getting out of hand.

August 6, 2005

Number of magazines I counted on the floor of my bedroom when I realized my habit of throwing magazines on the floor was getting out of hand.

15.

7 comments:

vbspurs said...: Don't get me started about magazines, or indeed, newspapers.

Although I cannot resist buying certain magazines (especially soccer ones like '4-4-2', or foreign gloss-mags like 'Manchete' and 'Oggi'), I gave up my subscriptions to the New Yorker, Harper's, and the like, when I got broadband 5 years ago.

I even, sadly, discontinued TLS, two years back. I am paper-less and fancy-free (and registered online everywhere I can).

There comes a time you have to acknowledge that saving that pizza receipt you got 3 years ago, or the National Geographic of May 2001, because..."you just never know", may well turn you one day into a bag lady.

Sentiment is great; having it is what makes people feeling and humane.

But saving your Saveur magazine of a year back on your loo floor is just not good.

Let them go, Ann. Let them go.

If you were meant to be, they'll find a way back to you.

(Like buying a heap of them at the local public library booksale)

Cheers,
Victoria; 8/6/05, 6:58 PM
Earth Girl said...: Just curious - what were the magazines?; 8/6/05, 11:44 PM
Earth Girl said...: Just curious - what were the magazines?; 8/6/05, 11:54 PM
chuck b. said...: Yeah, anything good? I kinda wish I had a magazine habit. We get lots of freebie design magazines where I live. "Buy this!" and "Glamorous That!" Doubtless a mark of my shallow nature, I find them meaty. Yes, I do need to know about bamboo floor treatments, backyard water features, and home theater sound systems.

I subscribed to Art in America for awhile but I failed to renew when the subscription expired. I think I'll try ArtNews next. I like to cut out pictures of things I like and see if I still like them after a while. Then I feel more confident when I decide to buy.

I did Harpers and The Atlantic for awhile. They were good when I rode a commuter shuttle to work, but I wouldn't read either one at home. That was years ago now actually.

I am sickeningly bougie.; 8/7/05, 1:05 AM
Ann Althouse said...: NYT Magazine, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly...; 8/7/05, 7:13 AM
Freeman Hunt said...: We cannot get Entertainment Weekly to stop coming to our house. We started getting it a couple years ago as a freebie when we special ordered an Aphex Twin music video from a video store. Has been coming ever since even though we've called and told them to stop sending it.

We cancelled Atlantic and TLS because I sort of faded away from reading them. Now we only get National Review and The Limbaugh Letter.

I just noticed that I use the pronoun "we" a lot as though my husband and I are some sort of interlocking humanoid transformer bots. How annoying.; 8/7/05, 10:56 PM
Gina said...: well gee I am glad that I am not the only one doing this ..hahaha; 8/9/05, 8:59 AM