Magazines
I'm such a sucker for cheap magazine subscriptions. I love to read so whenever I receive one of those cheap come-on magazine subscription for anything that is remotely interesting, I can't help myself but sign on the dotted line. Ten bucks for 2 year subscription?! Sign me up! The publishers are well aware of this so they keep bombarding me with more and more offers. I had to try hard to refrain myself. In our household, we have: Time Magazine, Fortune, Money, The Economist, Scientific American, MIT Technology, The Skeptic, BH&G etc.... Not to mention various trade journals on Linux, programming and biotech magazines, and a daily newspaper. Oh, I just signed up for Business 2.0, and Traveler magazine. I'm contemplating on a Food & Wine magazine. Our living rivals a dentist office in magazine selection.
I've stopped subscribing to women's magazines a little while back. The ones that I subscribed to the past, I've outgrown them. I haven't found one that I want to sign up with again. When I was in my early twenties living on my own for the first time, I subscribed to Cosmopolitan. Growing up in a sexually conservative culture and family, this was rather a daring step. I was excited about having my own Cosmopolitan issues and not resorting to getting glimpses of them at the supermarket checkouts. However, after six months of incessant, totally ridiculous sex articles and advices, I called it quit. Let's see, as I recall, one of the articles on how to get noticed at work included things like: wear high heels and a short skirt and bend over to pick something, leave your blouse top buttons undone and ask a male co-worker to button it for you. Even at twenty-two I realized that this was certainly not how I want to attract the opposite sex so I promptly cancelled the subscription.
I then moved on the Glamour Magazine. Glamour is a decent well-rounded magazine which I subscribed to for many years. It has a good mix of fashion, social, financial and health articles. However, as I get older and my earning power increases, articles such as "How to create a budget on a salary of $20,000" just no longer appealed to me. I suppose at some point we do outgrow the things we like. So after many years of being a loyal reader, I ended my Glamour subscription. I'm looking for a good women's magazine targetting thirty something professional. Perhaps something like Glamour but with more applicable financial and relationship topics. Any recommendations?
Lately, I'm a bit obsessed with financial investing. I'm quite realistic about this so I don't get involved with the get rich quick schemes. I have fairly simple taste and don't have an extravagant livestyle so having lots of money is not really a major criteria. However, I find the process of investing and making money to be interesting, challenging and rewarding. This leads to the subscription of Fortune, Money etc... I also love reading The Wall Street Journal. I used to read them from my previous employers' subscriptions. Although I really like it, I'm refraining from subscribing them on my own because thiswill completely overload me.
So many magazines, so little time...
I've stopped subscribing to women's magazines a little while back. The ones that I subscribed to the past, I've outgrown them. I haven't found one that I want to sign up with again. When I was in my early twenties living on my own for the first time, I subscribed to Cosmopolitan. Growing up in a sexually conservative culture and family, this was rather a daring step. I was excited about having my own Cosmopolitan issues and not resorting to getting glimpses of them at the supermarket checkouts. However, after six months of incessant, totally ridiculous sex articles and advices, I called it quit. Let's see, as I recall, one of the articles on how to get noticed at work included things like: wear high heels and a short skirt and bend over to pick something, leave your blouse top buttons undone and ask a male co-worker to button it for you. Even at twenty-two I realized that this was certainly not how I want to attract the opposite sex so I promptly cancelled the subscription.
I then moved on the Glamour Magazine. Glamour is a decent well-rounded magazine which I subscribed to for many years. It has a good mix of fashion, social, financial and health articles. However, as I get older and my earning power increases, articles such as "How to create a budget on a salary of $20,000" just no longer appealed to me. I suppose at some point we do outgrow the things we like. So after many years of being a loyal reader, I ended my Glamour subscription. I'm looking for a good women's magazine targetting thirty something professional. Perhaps something like Glamour but with more applicable financial and relationship topics. Any recommendations?
Lately, I'm a bit obsessed with financial investing. I'm quite realistic about this so I don't get involved with the get rich quick schemes. I have fairly simple taste and don't have an extravagant livestyle so having lots of money is not really a major criteria. However, I find the process of investing and making money to be interesting, challenging and rewarding. This leads to the subscription of Fortune, Money etc... I also love reading The Wall Street Journal. I used to read them from my previous employers' subscriptions. Although I really like it, I'm refraining from subscribing them on my own because thiswill completely overload me.
So many magazines, so little time...
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