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Magazine Subscriptions and Christmas

October 14th, 2005 at 07:44 pm

At the beginning of this year, John and I started cancelling magazine subscriptions to save money. I'm sure it is helping things a bit, but I know that John misses his Popular Science and Game Informer. It was like a treat once a month for him to get those glossy booklets in the mailbox.

I am wondering whether or not I should renew the Popular Science subscription as a gift for John this Christmas. Has anyone done this before? Was it a big hassle or was it a good move? I just don't know.

I just don't know what's going to happen this Christmas. We normally make large gift baskets in order to save money and give one to each "family," i.e. one each for John's siblings and their families, my parents, my grandparents, our aunts and uncles. It usually saves us a great deal of cash because we decide on a theme before October 1st and start looking for bargains accordingly. This year John wants to send everyone bath baskets filled with my products. He hopes that some of his more well-to-do family members will like them and brag to other folks about it, thus getting more awareness for Pampered Panda. This only works if the website is up and running before November, though.

Back to the grind.

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3 Responses to “Magazine Subscriptions and Christmas”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    October 14th, 2005 at 08:56 pm 1129323392
    1129323392

    i have asked my folks to renew my sub to refund cents this year. i cant afford the $25 a year for it...but i love it so much. personally i think if he likes the magazines, it would be a good gift. you know he reads them right? that means it would be a useful and appriciated gift. thats just my opinon tho...hope you have a good day
    ericka

  2. Anonymous Says:
    October 15th, 2005 at 05:04 pm 1129395840
    1129395840

    Thanks for the advice. Smile

    Yes, I know he actively reads them when we have them. So I guess you're right. Renewing at least one of them as his Christmas gift would be a good plan. Hope you had a good day, too. Smile
    Mandy

  3. Meredith Says:
    May 9th, 2006 at 08:09 pm 1147205344
    1147205344

    I know this is VERY late in coming, but I just read a bit of your blog today. I am reading the one where you talk about having cancelled your magazine subscriptions, and I know how that is. I did want to give you a website that searches all the other websites for the best deal on magazines, you have to buy the magazines separately through the other websites and it can take a bit of time, but you can save big money. I checked and Popular Science, for example, is available for under $7 a year. I have no affiliation with this site, I just use it a lot for myself and for gifts. I had a rash of friends buying houses who all love pop culture, so I was subscribing them to OK weekly, a trashy celebrity weekly magazine for abou $8 a year. They loved it and it was affordable for me.
    Hope this helps somehow!

    Here is the link http://www.magazinepricesearch.com/detail/popularscience.html

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