11/8/10

The Magazines

     Everyone loves magazines. They are quick and easy. They work great just about everywhere like the bathroom, the bus, the library, the coffee shop, the train, an airplane, the kitchen and even at work. Just don't let the boss catch you. The only real problem I have is the price at the newsstand. Each magazine is between $4 and $8 a piece. I have seen some for $17 per copy. Yeeesh.
     You can either buy a Kindle and get the magazines sent to you over the air waves. Or stay with the more traditional route of letting the USPS deliver them to you. Either way you do it, you are going to have to pay for the subscription. So why not save a bunch of $$ on the subscription fees for the stuff you're going to buy and read anyway.
     Here are some huge savings on subscription fees on popular magazines. Some of the savings are so huge that you get the magazines delivered for about $.50 per issue whereas you would normally pay about  $5 per issue.  Hmmm.. $6 per year or $60 per year for the same thing. Let me think about that for a while.
     The following magazines are all via Amazon.com and represent some significant cost savings based on a 1 year subscription. 


     Wow that is a huge list, but if you take a look at the annual cost of each and then think about the newsstand price you can see that this is a no brainer. I'm sure we are all having to tighten our budgets a little nowadays, but that doesn't mean you should go without. It does mean that you should be smarter about how you spend. If You Gotta Have Magazines, Then buy them the right way.