www.inkthinkerblog.com — I have to cancel some of my magazine subscriptions. I don’t even know why I’m subscribed to some of these–I barely have time to read Writer’s Digest and Publisher’s Weekly, so The Writer, The New Yorker (which I’ll never cancel, honest), Atlantic Monthly, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Tin House, Good Housekeeping, Southern Living, Fitness, Reader’s Digest, Parents, Cosmo, Marie Clare, The Sun, and like half a dozen others that I can’t even remember are just PILING UP–not to mention my daily home delivery of the Washington Post. It’s going to be hard to let them go, but I can’t take it anymore!
How do you deal with your desire for research (and write-offs) without risking being crushed by towering stacks of periodicals you never actually read despite your good intentions?
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i don’t! i try to limit my mags and catalogs…i have a basket in my living room. i clean them out after i peruse them. sometimes i make reading a magazine my big activity in the day, a break from work!
I also have a pile of unread magazines. I wonder why I keep buying them.
I read them when they come in and pull what I want. Some magazines, like Yoga Journal, have their own bins, because I refer back to them. I’m a magazine junkie, so when the magazine comes in, I stop everything for a few hours and read it cover to cover and move on. That way they don’t pile up.
Well, they still PILE up — but they’re read, at least.
I live down the street from the library, so that helps! Also, since my son is constantly selling subscriptions for school fundraisers, I rotate which mags I subscribe to for a year — and get to feel good about purchasing them from his school.
BTW, the latest issue of Notes in the Margin looks great! Not that I’m biased or anything. :)