Friday 13

[altivo]

Two months in a row with a Friday the thirteenth. Some math whiz can figure out how often that happens. Has to be only when February has a Friday 13 and it's not a leap year. My guess is about once in a decade or so

Comments

[alaskawolf]

yay for friday the 13th :)

[bladehorse]

Sunset magazine was along the same lines as BH&G, and they too became taken over by adds till thats all there was to see. They started out at like 40 sheets,bonded, now theres like 100 sheets cheaply stapled together to make a book of adds. We no longer subscribe to this.

[lobowolf]

My house is already decorated with yard-sale bargains :P I was cool long before the recession, I guess.

Your description of Food and Wine reminds me of Real Simple magazine which was a glossy hoity-toity magazine with recipe/decorating/saving tips...you know, useful tips showing you how to stretch the most from your frugal budget by buying a used Mercedes instead of a new one, how to find a Prada handbag at a discount, how to live with $25 bottles of wine instead of $150 bottles, and how to survive when your shoe budget is only $150! Some people's idea of "roughing it" is still way above my level of lifestyle.

Of course, it's greed and materialism that took down the economy in the first place, so I suppose if you have to trade your Mercedes for a Ford and your filet mignon for macaroni and cheese that life has come full circle.

http://www.realsimple.com/

[schnee]

6 USD for a 3-year subscription is an incredible price, yes - you can't really go wrong with that if there's even the slightest bit of useful information, even a single interesting article or recipe, or even a single coupon or so you can use in each copy then, yes.

Of course, I'm still amazed they even manage to recover their printing costs etc. that way, but I assume that in the end, you're not so much the client as much as the product being sold (eyeballs) to the real clients (advertisers).

It's one reason why I don't have any paid magazine subscriptions anymore - there seem to be hardly any left that don't double-dip by first charging you and then going and also selling your attention to advertisers. And while I wouldn't mind the advertising as such, I'm often not quite sure how impartial magazines will really be when they - for example - test a company's products (in the case of e.g. computer magazines) or report on a company (for weekly news magazines) while also relying on that company for advertising revenue.

[cabcat]

There are only so many home styles you can do :)
I always found that a lot of the homes didn't look very comfortable not easy to clean.

Receipes? *sits near you looking hopeful that you'll make something*