# To what magazines do you subscribe? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024 "2008-01-10T20:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/61 "2008-01-11T17:36:31Z")
At home: The Atlantic The New Yorker Men’s Health At work: Harvard Business Review Treasury & Risk CFO Pensions & Investments Institutional Investor Plan Sponsor The New York Times Wall Street Journal ---
**Author:** ![RunSilent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RunSilent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RunSilent)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/62 "2008-01-11T18:29:42Z")
Smithsonian Skeptical Inquirer I would like to subscribe to many others, but then I’d have no time to read books. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/63 "2008-01-11T18:36:41Z")
We’ve cut it down to just New Scientist. My name is also on the Donald Duck comic book subscription, but it’s for the junior flodnaks. They almost never let me read it 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/64 "2008-01-11T18:46:24Z")
I get Newsweek, Consumer Reports, and PC Gamer. The kids get Ranger Rick and Your Big Backyard. My wife gets some women’s magazines, but I don’t pay attention to what they are. For years, my parents gave us the Smithsonian for Christmas. I finally told them that we didn’t read it much, and that I’d rather have the Atlantic, but that was the year that they stopped giving everyone subscriptions. ---
**Author:** ![Lynne\_kilii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/65 "2008-01-11T20:05:05Z")
While I should get a subscription to Glamour and to Cosmo (it is a terrible, horrible addiction- the both of them.), I have avoided it. It would also wreak havoc with my perfectly balanced subscriptions. I’d need two more intelligent subscriptions. I do have a subscription to Playboy and National Geographic. Although now I’ll be checking out Mental Floss online, probably in my daily folder of my favorites. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/66 "2008-01-11T20:19:34Z")
[QUOTE=Lynne\_kilii] . . . It would also wreak havoc with my perfectly balanced subscriptions. I’d need two more intelligent subscriptions. . . [/QUOTE] May I suggest a subcription to **OCD Weekly**? I kid, I kid! I’m a kidder . . . 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/67 "2008-01-11T20:21:59Z")
I can’t afford to subscribe to any, but if I could pony up the $100 a year for \*The Economist \* I would. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/68 "2008-01-11T20:33:10Z")
Just Vanity Fair because that was my favorite reward from doing online surveys. I had to use the points or lose them. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/69 "2008-01-11T20:44:12Z")
Rolling Stone Car & Driver Martha Stewart Living Even I think that is an odd assortment! ---
**Author:** ![Lynne\_kilii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/70 "2008-01-11T23:51:50Z")
[QUOTE=Genghis Bob] May I suggest a subcription to **OCD Weekly**? I kid, I kid! I’m a kidder . . . 🆒 [/QUOTE] Funny, but it is more a matter of vanity than OCD. It’d be ok if the number of intelligent subscriptions outnumbered the fluff ones, too. Just don’t want my postmaster to think I’m a perverted diva with no redeeming qualities. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/71 "2008-01-12T00:52:27Z")
Subscribe: Newsweek Reader’s Digest Read often anyways: Readymade Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/72 "2008-01-12T02:16:50Z")
Work: Fine Gardening Horticulture Garden Design Nurseryman News Southern Living Carolina Gardening assorted other trade pubs Read all cover to cover to keep up, leaving little time for: Home: Nat Geographic, thanks to Aunt Betty, who gives it generously each Christmas, with some delicious homemade peanut brittle. Garden Solutions-- edited by our own Twicks-a-Liscious; a very fine gardening mag HerbalGram- great magazine for solidly researched medicinal herb info Living Blues–was my life for a decade, still a great music magazine Buy, but really should just resubscribe: Tricycle-- excellent Buddhist magazine Shambala-- ditto The Nation Harper’s And, one I **really, really** should re-subscribe to, and well-recommend: [Orion magazine](http://www.orionmagazine.org/) Top-notch stories and artwork/photography on nature subjects. Gorgeous production. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/73 "2008-01-12T02:32:21Z")
I get MEntal Floss, and National Geographic. I want Smithsonian, and a host of Military History mags I keep finding at the store. I will probably never get them, but it’s fun to fantasize! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/74 "2008-01-12T02:36:20Z")
Only _Time_. I was given a gift subscription one year and have kept renewing ever since. I did also subscribe to a local magazine called _Farang_, which later changed its name to _Untamed Travel_, but then it folded. It was a great magazine, too; many were sorry to see it go. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/75 "2008-01-12T09:34:18Z")
I have a subscription to The Economist, a major treat to myself because it is so damned pricey, but otherwise I have only the vaguest idea of what’s going on in the world outside my village. All Peace Corps volunteers get a free subscription to Newsweek, which…well, let’s just say I use them for starting fires in my wood-burning stove. I usually buy National Geographic BG, too, for practicing my Bulgarian and for all the great pictures of animals. I cut them out and paste them to stiff paper to use as flashcards in class. My students know the English words for like, every animal now. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/76 "2008-01-12T10:23:11Z")
Wow…thanks for the tip on magazines with Delta miles, **Driver8**. I have a bunch of miles, but not enough to use for anything but…subscriptions. They have Eating Well, which I’ve been meaning to subscribe to for ages now. Need to check out exactly how many miles I have. I might be able to get my brother a few subscriptions too. As for me: Garden Solutions (what **elelle** said) - I think that’s my only magazine subscription right now; I was oversubscribing and underreading for a long time Columbus Dispatch Pick up more and less regularly, but don’t subscribe: Eating Well Garden Design Fine Gardening Cooking Light Saveur Martha Stewart Living (she has very cool gardening stuff from time to time) Receive due to memberships: AAA MSU Alumni Magazine Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter Am considering The Economist and Smithsonian… I cycle through a bunch of publications online: NY Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Spiegel, Mental Floss. I’m intrigued by several that are mentioned here, but not sure if I really have time… (Anyone want to replace my income so that I can stay home and read and garden between the traveling?) GT ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/77 "2008-01-12T11:26:13Z")
Time magazine since the 50s. (Maybe that’s why I’m so biased :rolleyes: ) National Geographic until a couple years ago. I quit because it’s become too pops. I used to go in second hand bookshops and buy pre-war issues. Those were fascinating! Lots of specialized scientific periodicals. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/78 "2008-01-12T11:52:12Z")
Here’s a tip on how to see which of your magazines are selling your name to junk-mail senders. Each time you subscribe to something, give yourself a different middle initial: John A. Smith, John B. Smith, etc. Then you can tell by seeing which middle initial appears on your junk mail. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/79 "2008-01-12T12:23:59Z")
Tea Time British Heritage Realm (on trial; I don’t know if I’ll continue it) Smithsonian Preservation (comes with the National Trust membership) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/80 "2008-01-12T13:11:05Z")
EntWkly of course WORLD (Christian conservative newsmag) Sacred Name Messenger (free from the Assemblies of Yahweh, kinda like a really cheaply done The Plain Truth) TIME Now- if I had the funds I’d also subscribe to Newsweek US News & World Report Biblical Archaeological Review Christianity Today FATE (the old paranormal mag) After Dark (the Coast to Coast AM mag) The New American (Bircher newsmag) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024.md?page=5)