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One, but I eat a hell of a lot of junk food.

I subscribe to Dwell, Entertainement Weekly and Saveur - that's it. I use to buy 8-10 mags a month so I'm very proud of how much I've cut back.

4, 2 for me and 2 for my husband, but they were all gifted to us.

Haha, #1 is totally me. Complete with the annoying self-righteousness.

2 - Domino & Dwell. Though if I'm flying I'll get Vanity Fair and The Economist.

It depends on the month. A lot of my subscriptions aren't monthly (such as Atomic Ranch and such). so some months about 3 ... some 6 or 7!

I get more catalogs than anything else, though.

too many. but now I have an agreement with my best friend , I have some, she gets some and then we'll exchange them after reading.

Just 1.

But waaay too many catalogs!

domino, dwell, real simple. Occasionally I'll buy a body soul, a martha stewart, or whatever food magazine has a delicious looking cover. My dilemma is what to do with them after! I can understand recycling the US weekly, but these are reference materials! what do you guys do with your magazines?

We keep all our Dwells, and I've kept all my Harvard Business Reviews. Everything else (Time Out, Fast Company, Wired) we toss.

Over 12! Working in the magazine publishing business, you get a lot of offers for professional discounts. While I would not buy GQ every month, I might buy it 3-4 times a year. When the discount is $8 for an entire year, it makes it worthwhile to subscribe. This explains about half of my magazine subscriptions....

i get three, plus The New Yorker 4x a month. i guess that makes 7?

I confess, I'm a total magazine junkie. Last week I gathered up a huge stack of old magazines and put an ad on Craigslist. I felt a lot better about giving them to someone else instead of just recycling them.

Real Simple, Budget Travel, The Week, Entertainment Weekly.

As soon as I'm done, I bring them into work or the doctor's office and drop them on the reception table. They should get as many reads as possible!

I get:

Mental Floss
Mac World
Canadian Journalist
House and Home
Adbusters


eek!

I get:
Domino
Food & Wine (free 6 months because I got my dad a gift subscription)
Contract Magazine
Hospitality Design Magazine
Boutique Design Magazine

3 of the 5 are for work and Domino sort of counts as well.

I don't get any and that's mainly because I find that I'd keep the mags way past their 'expiration' date and it would just clutter up my place. I also don't see a point in reading 8 magazines a month when I can get all the good bits at AT. :)

How much do those subscriptions usually cost?
Also, I hope you're all recycling!!!

I get Domino and I guess Vogue in 6-8 weeks. Both were free gifts with purchase. I used to get several magazines (definitely more than 5), but now I rent a table out at Barnes and Noble and read them for the price of a hot chocolate. :-)

I also get way too many catalogs. I just want to buy a hamper, I don't want your catalog!

I get:

Smithsonian
National Geographic
MacLife
MacWorld

When I want to read Martha, I get her out of the library. Also Real Simple.

The Mac magazines I read and recycle; the Smithsonian and National Geographic I keep for six months and either recycle or give to my chiropractor, who is notorious for having terrible reading material (15-minute electro-stim is really boring with nothing to read). Though he did finally get rid of the clown picture in Room #1.

Um, we get two.
My roommate gets one (Fitness, cause she got a year free) and I get one (Glamour... cause I got a year free).
And then we get lots of catalogs... and by we, I mean me. :)

metropolitan home (i just paid for a two year subscription, because i heart them)

dwell (it's expiring soon, but i'm not gonna renew)

national geographic (i really need to send in my payment)

poets and writers (i have the freebie but i don't think i want to subscribe...)

rangefinder (for photographers, and it's free!)

I picked 8 because I have subscriptions to:

Metropolitan Home
Domino
Vogue
Vogue Knitting
Cottage Living [which I am letting lapse]

and then I go to B & N every month and get my brit fix with:
LivingETC
Ideal Home

And I do get a few professional journals which come with my memberships.

I subscribe to one only now- Domino. My dwell subscription ran out and I'm not sure if I will renew it, and I just cancelled Lucky magazine. I usually buy about 2 off the news stand- Paris Vogue and whatever else strikes my fancy- sometimes Elle Decor UK.

I love Dwell but have been hesitant to buy it anywhere but occasionally at the airport. Since the site is so packed with info, is it worth it to subscribe to the hard copy?

I am such a magazine junkie, but I've never been able to just accept it so I end up spending way too much at the newsstand. I just let my Wired and Entertainment Weekly free subs run out (sob) so right now the ones I subscribe to, or buy every month:

(RIP Blueprint)
Domino
American Cinematographer (I bought a 3-year sub a million years ago when I was in film school, and it NEVER RUNS OUT. I long since stopped reading it. I'm stockpiling it to sell someday)
Advanced Photoshop
New American Paintings
Craft
MSL
and as I just read my first issue of Elle Decor I may be getting that, too...sigh.

I save art, design, and anything reference-y (Photoshop, Martha). Entertainment, news, women's mags are donated to the library when the pile is overwhelming.

I'm embarrassed to say that these days I read about a book a month (if that), mostly because my few spare minutes of reading time a day are usually given to magazines.

Domino
Readymade
MSL (substitute for Blueprint)
Giant
Marie Claire
Living Etc.

I'm going to let MSL, Giant, and Marie Claire expire. I'm considering BH&G because its ridiculously cheap $7/year.

by subscription I get two Canadian decorating magazines (Canadian House & Home and Style at Home) and Motorcycle Consumer News. I sometimes buy others at the newstand but am always shocked at the price.

what ever is present online is more than sufficent.

Well I only subscribe to two weeklies but I buy:

Domino
Elle Decor
Met Home
Lucky
House Beautiful
Vogue
People
Entertainment Weekly

I also get O at Home(Sarah Gray Miller of my beloved Budget Living is now editor) and Vogue Living as well as occasionally Cottage Living, Readymade, Nylon, and W.

Yes clearly I have a problem.


Why don't i subscribe? I live in a major US city if a magazine hits the newsstands on a certain date I can't BEAR to wait 3 weeks for it to show up in mailbox(Met Home, Domino and Elle Decor showed up so late I thought they had been stolen and would buy them anyway) Dwell is the worst though: 5 WEEKS I'd get the previous month's issue 10 days after the new one hit the stands....I was so frustrated at that point I stopped reading it all together.

I am, by nature, a paper ho -- I get Essence, Black Enterprise, Met Home, Fitness, Domino, Living, O at Home, O, In Style, Lucky, Women's Health, Budget Travel and Kiplinger's Personal Finance. It's pitiful.

I LOVE all my magazines, but we have way too many subscriptions: Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Latina, & Metropolitan Home. (my husband gets National Geographic, Scientific American, & New York.) I keep all my ADs for reference material and I cut out the pages of pictures or info from my other mags and place them into a binder of inspiration. We recycle all the rest.

I picked 0, but that's not because I don't get magazines at all. I buy one particular travel magazine and one particular equestrian magazine every few months at the newsstand.
(Right now I have about 6 of the former and 2 of the latter on my armoir. They range in date from mid 2004 until last month. I'm a pretty inconsequential buyer. :D)

NONE

Real Simple
Newsweek
Interview
Archeology

I get others, but only because I gifted them to friends and apparently I'm on a Free Subscription For Life list as a result.

(i don't buy any either)

i have AT!

- Domino

- Dwell (expiring soon and won't renew)

readymade and dwell. i steal my mom's real simple.

but i do suffer from buying others frequently...Outside magazine being the prime one and an occasional InTouch or OK magazine.

Dwell & TimeOut Chicago

I found Domino too "old-lady". Used to get Real Simple, but found it too "middle age lady".

I get Metropolitan Home. Then again, I do most "reading" online.

Two:

Harper's
Technology Review (published every two months)

I'm a magazine whore.

Lucky
Instyle
Allure
Domino
Martha Stewart Living
Martha Stewart Food
Real Simple
previously Blueprint
Money Inc.

Sometimes I'll pick up others when I find the cover interesting. I read them immediately like a fiend. I'm done in about two days. Rip out the pages I like and store them in a folder.

I recycle them by dispersing them to my friends' businesses for the waiting room. Or give them out to friends.

New Yorker - subscription split with a friend.
Dwell
Nutrition Action Healthletter http://www.cspinet.org/nah/index.htm
InStyle
Spacing http://www.spacing.ca/ (Toronto urban issues)
Toronto Life http://www.torontolife.com/
The Walrus http://www.walrusmagazine.com/

Only 1. Martha Stewart Living, subscriber since '94, and I can't stop now. Recently cancelled Real Simple, which I started subscribing to since the first issue. I really liked the idea behind the magazine of being "real" and "simple" until it became very successful and I noticed how much thicker it got, and filled with commercial ads, and it stopped being "real simple" for me. Ironic.

god, i feel really lucky to work in a PR department where i get every single magazine under the sun for FREE.

well, okay, no shelter magazines (i work at a record label), but i'd prefer to have those delivered anyway. but the day a gossip rag makes into my apartment is the day...well, it'd be a pretty yucky day.

I subscribe to:
Domino
Elle Decor
Better Homes and Gardens (how could i say no to a $5 subscription?)

I purchase:
Ell Decor UK
Living Etc

I get 8:

National Geographic
National Geographic: Traveler
Domino
Dwell
Martha Stewart Living
Better Homes and Gradens
Architectural Digest
Highlights

I Try to read:
Dwell
Domino
Wondertime
BHG

Letting these expire. Most of them were gifted or I bought from my kid's school fundraising. I try to freecycle them or give them to the school.

Good Houskeeping
Ladies Home Journal
Real Simple
House Beautiful
Parents

I hate paper, so I cut out the catalogs too! I'd rather get an online subscription.

I also second *heather leaf*'s sentiment.

I subscribe to Marie Claire and I.D. Magazine. I pick up Monocle from a magazine shop. For some reason it's cheaper than subscription and shows up sooner on the shelf than Borders.

I realized I have a problem when I lost track after 12.....yeesh! So now a practical question, clearly I cannot keep up with all of the reading because I've got stacks and stacks laying around the house. I don't have a problem recycling them once I'm done---my problem is that because I have so many, it takes me forevvver to get through them--any good ideas on how to store them while I'm going through stacks, stacks, stacks of them?

Won't even consider ending subscriptions as this is my main source of entertainment these days (2 toddlers under 5 yrs old)

I love magazines. I tried to cut back at one point, but then ended up buying them anyways at the supermarket, so at least this is cheaper? I love nothing more than to lay in bed weekend mornings and read magazines. And, for the ones I do toss, I try to use them for collages/postcards and to make magnets, etc, before I recycle them.

Conde Nast Traveler, Gourmet, Saveur, Domino, Lucky, Allure, Elle, Los Angeles Magazine, Good, Harper's Bazaar, Time..

..do alumni magazines count too? And journals that are part of membership fees to professional organizations. I'm just going to stop counting now...

Men's Fitness, National Geographic and TIME for subscriptions.
Sometimes I pick up a magazine at the bookstore nextdoor to my office.
Plus the Iowa State University alumni magazine.

I have a 1-cubic foot wicker "milk crate" that sits on a chrome shelf that I have. It's about half-full of magazines. Rull of thumb is when one goes in, one goes and gets "distributed" at work or at my National Guard unit.

Hello, yes, I am a Magazine Junkie and it's pretty bad.

Here are the magazines that make it into the mailbox each month:
Time
Elle Decor
Gourmet
Bon Appetit
Glamour
Spin
Metropolitan Home
Time Out

The following subscriptions lapsed and I get all teary about it when I remember that I don't get them anymore: The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, and Saveur. At the bookstores, I'd fill up on the People, UsWeekly, In Touch, etc. but I'm imposing a no celebrity gossip diet and have stayed away.

Mine are:
Style at Home
Threads
Times Literary Supplement
New Yorker
Saudi Aramco's freebie mag

A couple of days I was decluttering like mad and decided to cut up then recycle a stack of decorating mags. When I was all done, I remembered that I'd also just signed out a handful of magazines from my local library. Uh oh ....

Dwell
Domino
Metropolitan Home
House & Garden (before the sad demise)
New Yorker
Time Out New York (a mystery, as i never subscribed to it)
Lucky
Marie Claire
Women's Health
Entertainment Weekly (natch)
Everyday Food

You know, for 15 bucks a year (on average) it's so worth it to get that little bit of joy in the mailbox.

I feel a tad guilty about it being a recycling nightmare, but whatcha gonna do?

@christinanyc, I recommend donating them to the library or used bookstore (do you have Half Price Book in NY?). Many of my holiday MSLs are from library book sales. I LOVE getting magazines there, and the money goes to a good cause.

I only get 4 and have a hard time getting to read them all. I do drool over all of them in the bookstore...
If only I were a trust fund baby, I would stay at home all day and read decorating and home improvement mags.

I'm down to just the Economist and Body & Soul, but as we just bought a house (yay!) I signed up recently (super cheap!) for Elle Decor on bestdealmagazines... it was like $4, I couldn't resist! And now I want Dwell. Oh I forgot I also get Conde Nast traveler, but I didn't sign up for that, it just started coming one day. (I think from a hotel frequent guest program?) Oops I also forget I get a magazine from grad school... or maybe two...

I have cut down a lot - a few years ago I went on a bestdealmags shopping spree and had Black Enterprise, Natural Living, Vegetarian Times, Scuba Diver, Rolling Stone, Business Week, and more I can't even remember!

I was up to 12 pubs 2 years ago. But now, I get 0! And I don't feel any less cool because of it...

wow, i don't think i've ever taken an inventory. in my efforts to "go green" this year, i'm not going to renew several subscriptions.

will not renew:
- dwell
- met home
- national geographic
- time
- bon appetite

will renew:
-domino
-economist