I’ve read all of Amy Dacyczyn’s books. They were published in the 1990s, and while some of the information would be long obsolete, the whole idea of living within one’s means never goes out of style.
Nowadays, she rarely gives interviews, but last I heard, she and her husband Jim were enjoying grandparenthood.
They ALL are now. I picked up two magazines at Barnes and Noble for light reading in the bathroom and it came to $67. No thanks. That item is no longer at a disposable income price point.
Print may be dying, but that was the day I learned publication companies are shooting the horse in the head.
I was looking for a good crossword puzzle book. I hate the large print and the EASY crosswords. I want a bit of challenge. The only one that I could find that wasn’t one of those two or both, was $17.99! It was the size of a Time magazine. Nope. I’ll just continue to do the ones that I’ve taken out of the newspaper.
"Marilyn Monroe was a US dress size 12 in the 1950s, which translates to a size 6 or 8 in today’s clothing sizes. "
When we first moved into this rather largish house (for two people+ cats), we did frequent thrift stores and garage sales. We now have pretty much all we need along thos elines.
If you are unfamiliar with Games Magazines Big Book of Games (or volume II), it is available cheaply in (online) used book stores or free on Archive and would be better use of coin IMHO.
Games magazine was fantastic! It was my introduction to, among other things, cryptic crosswords. I am still searching for an issue my 8th grade science teacher kept in her classroom for students who had spare time. One of the puzzles was a black and white photo, a title and a brief summary of a terrible movie. I think it was three of the movies were made up for the puzzle. The rest had actually been shot and shown in theaters. The first time I saw that puzzle, I vowed to watch all those awful films.
There’s a guy who posts videos about his visits to Goodwill, where he finds stuff marked at, say $3.99, that were originally and certainly from the dollar store for $1 (sometimes the dollar store sticker is still on the bottom). Based on that, don’t be surprised that the $18 magazine gets listed at $24, because that’s the target audience who wants the magazine, even at $24.
Thanks! I’ll look into that.
I got the newsletter, punched holes in the margin, and filled up three binders! The tidbits eventually got kind of repetitive and meandered off into other topics. I got rid of them when I moved, but maybe I should have donated those binders - to a thrift store.
When the “Real Simple” magazine was fairly new, my sister sent me a sample issue. It was, as I predicted, one of those “Throw away your old things, and replace them with these eco-friendly gimmicky items!” screeds.
I have a used copy I could let go for a very reasonable price along with his biology thesis “Evolution for the Halibut…”
So that’s where it went! I’d like it back, please.
Not now, the police are everywhere.
I thought idlers suffered history instead of making it?
Good one!
I’ve subscribed to “The New Yorker” for decades. Just the other day I was taken aback when I noticed the cover price: $9.99.
They’re free if you read them in the Barnes and Noble bathroom.
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Absolutely and completely different. Inches do not exist. Sizes are completely random. One brand’s “small” is another’s “medium” – or “tiny”. Some are numbered, like from 00 to 2x.
Unless you buy a longstanding model from a longstanding brand with a reputation for boring stability (like L.L.Bean), it is a crapshoot. And even then, they probably changed the fabric.
Serious question; which magazines were these? I haven’t bought one in years but don’t remember them being that expensive.
If it’s in California, it’s because magazines are limited to ten stories.
There are magazines which usually come out every month or two, and their are “magazines”, which commemorate celebrities or neurophysiology or a trendy “special edition” - basically a concise book for the semiliterate or picture lover, and similarly priced.