I dreamt last night about my stash of Sassy magazines.

[elemmennope]

Oh, how I used to love and savor those things. I'd look forward to the beginning of every month when I knew it would be coming in the mail and I'd have one glorious afternoon pouring over every page with a glass of lemonade and a bag of plain Doritos -- that was the ritual. There has been no magazine since then that even compared. Sassy was great

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[arbus]

this was sweet to read. i loved my sassys too. my mother told me a long time ago that they were still piled up in her basement.

[elemmennope]

Sassy is a funny thing. I bet you can pinpoint a very specific age group of women by asking who used to read that magazine with devotion. Actually, I used to know a few guys with subscriptions too.

[subpolka]

I loved Sassy.

My mother tossed out all of mine, as well. Heart-breaking, really; the issue with Kurt and Courtney on the cover fetches a nice price on eBay these days...

[elemmennope]

There's one with Johnny Depp on the cover that I've heard goes for over $100 too.

[starlitediner]

oh how i wish i still had my sassy magazines. *wishwishwishwishwish*

there has never been another magazine to me, like sassy. i would read it cover to cover -- everything, and then go back and read them again later.

i always hoped jane would live up to it, and it was good for awhile, but now it is so unrecognizable and contrived, and just like any other stereotypical "women's" magazine.

i do like bust a lot, though. many readers have written to the editor calling it the grown-up sassy, or sassy's older sister.

hee. i just rambled in your comment space, but your dream brought back sassy memories :)

lucy *

[elemmennope]

I bought a couple issues of Jane a few years ago and didn't like it at all. I'd rather look at InStyle or Glamour than read Jane again. After writing this post I just googled Sassy to see what I could find and there was this article. Why Jane Never Lived Up to Sassy.

I've never seen a copy of Bust. But I think that was mentioned in the same article. I'll have to look for that one.

[bezigebij]

Ah, Sassy! I was a devout fan. I believe I even entered a contest once to be the Sassiest girl in America, or something of the like. I spent hours writing that essay...

[elemmennope]

That's awesome. Heh. I always admired the girls they chose to be magazine interns. How awesome to get to do something like that!

[girlinthemoon]

Now you could be the Sassiest Woman in the Netherlands ;)

I loved Sassy, too, with serious devotion... I know I still have some of my issues, but not all. They were well loved. I loved that they put politics and psychology alongside coloring your hair and what guys and girls really think about lee press-on nails. :D (Bust is great, too)

[elemmennope]

Yes, it was great that is still had makeup advice and what not. But it was never the dumb product-placement advice like in the other magazines -- obviously fake beauty questions sent in by "readers" just so they could answer with the newest Gilette shave foam or whatever that they were paid to promote that month.

Sassy's beauty advice was more like "5 awesome bath products I found in my Grandpa's medicine cabinet." And there would be like these cool shaving soaps and woodsy-smelling colognes and stuff.

[girlinthemoon]

:D I remember that exact story. (So many stories left such a distinct, lasting impression on me!)