Excessive Magazine Subscriptions

At some point last year, DG went a tad overboard ordering himself new magazine subscriptions. By the time I realized what he did, it was too late and we were locked into 2 years of cat box liner worthy mags like Real Simple. We get so many magazines and catalogs at the house, I can't find a container big enough to hold them. This is what we are currenting getting: Business 2.0, Cooks Illustrated, Fast Company, MacWorld, MacHome, Mother Earth News, PCMagazine (oops dad), Newsweek, Paste, Real Simple, Martha Stewart Living, This Old House, WSJ. He did get me the Cook's Illustrated which I LOVE and he says he got me Martha Stewart Living, but he really got it for himself. See Exhibit A and last week-ends refrigerator cleaning.

Now I know that DG loves his magazines and reads most of them cover to cover and we do have plenty of time on the bus every day, but what is too much? Now that we have so many subscriptions, I think we are marked for life on a list, (read suckers) and I am marrying into that list. Somewhere, some magazine marketing director has highlighted DG's name and a list of magazines to send to him with fake invoices to fool him into thinking that he had actually agreed to a subscription. We are so popular, that we have started to get a slew of other craptaculars and the line is so hazy that DG can't remember whether he ordered it or not and why we are getting it every week. Namely I am talking about Better Homes and Gardens. When I found out that we had subscriptions to 10+ magazines, I pressed my Future Husband to cease and desist all glossy paper consumption, but when we started getting BH&G, I was all "Oh no you didn't!", and then he was like "um I don't think I did?", and then I was all like "Of all magazines in the world, BH& F'n G?!?!" and he was all "Well there was that one Friday when I was drinking..." and then my foot went down. Which is really just another way of me saying GAWD stop the madness.

Don't let the pretty pictures and copying of Martha fool you. BH&G is full of worthless tips written for dull brainless middle America. I know, because I read 2 issues of it and took away nothing. Luckily we stopped getting it. I don't believe there is a moral to this story, but I do believe that there are a lot of elderly people getting BH&G because of the crazy scam that makes them think they had ordered it.