The magazines are coming & coming & coming…

I was looking for  a note I’d written myself the other day and I did eventually find it burried under a stack of magazines. That wouldn’t be bad except it was a stack of unread magazines. Which made me wonder why I have all of these unread magazines. So I started thinking about it and realized that I had subscribed to a bunch of magazine using reward points and while subscribing is cheaper than buying them in the store I had failed to take one critical factor in to consideration when I subscribed. What was the factor? It was the rather obvious one of when & where I read the magazines. I don’t drive so I take the bus everywhere which means I frequently end up with time to kill after doing some grocery shopping. When that happens I get a magazine and something to drink. I sit either at the bus stop or inside and read the magzine and sip my drink while waiting for the bus. The problem with magazine subscriptions is that they come in the mail which means the most recent issue of  Magazine X is sitting at home on a shelf in my entry or in my mailbox while I’m at the store waiting for the bus sans reading material since I never think/remember to grab a magazine or 5 on my way out the door to do the grocery shopping. Guess I should start shoving a magazine or 3 in to my bag before leaving the house. I’m letting my subscriptions lapse and maybe I’ll go back to buying them in the store.

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