and now for something completely different...

Okay, I realize that this post flies in the face of being green but I have a confession to make:

I LOVE magazines!

The whole idea of all that information cram-packed into one little, transportable unit thrills me no end. And the photographs! And the snippets of must-have knowledge. It makes me weak in the knees. My late Grandmother was also a magazine-aholic and one of my favorite memories was when we discovered this shared compulsion when I was just a teenager. Granny got all the good magazines too, the ones with tabloids and gossip and fashion all rolled into one. She would save up all of her magazines and present them to me in a Walmart bag (ugh, those darn plastic bags again) and I would spend hours devouring them.

These days I'm much more responsible in my magazine addiction. I have cut drastically the number that I receive and I always pass them on to others, donate them to Elite Repeat or the Library. The magazines that I do get I try to buy from the neighborhood kids trying to earn points or whatever for school (no, this is not an invitation to stalk my front door) but the greatest find I have discovered is a website called "Best Deal Magazines". I don't know how they do it but I have gotten some incredible bargains on subscriptions. Currently, I'm receiving Body & Soul for $4.88/year, O - Oprah's magazine for FREE, Fit Magazine for FREE, Diet and Nutrition for FREE and Cottage Living for $10/year. I can live with this and sleep easy at night.

CLick on the post title to check out their website and see if your magazines are listed. If you subscribe by June 16 and use FATHER18 in the promo box you'll get an additional 18% off.

And please don't tell me that they are subsidized by Walmart...