Magazine Subscriptions

Magazine Subscriptions - I have too many! Its the weekly subscriptions that put me over the top. By the time I am able to crack one open, two more are sitting in my mailbox. However, I never throw a magazine away until I am finished with it and at some point in my lifetime I do plan on finishing all of them even if that means that I am way behind the times when it comes to current events. Right now I am reading February's news out of Newsweek (congrats to Barack Obama on becoming our first African American president!) I am even reading travel magazines that date back to 2007. Following is a list of all my magazine subscriptions:

Travel + Leisure

Conde Nast Traveler 

National Geographic Traveler

Real Simple

Newsweek

The Week

The New Yorker

Inc.

Wired

Rolling Stone

I may be forgetting some...I swear my neighbor steals many of my magazines because they definitely don't all come once a week/month. From this list the ONLY ones I enjoy reading are:

National Geographic Traveler

Real Simple

Inc. 

and about 50% of my Newsweeks

To me reading a magazine like Wired is like reading about Quantum Mechanics (maybe I should just cancel that subscription.) For some reason Rolling Stone gets delivered to my parents house so there goes that. Travel + Leisure and Conde Nast I feel are too mass market. The New Yorker...well, I don't live in New York. I just started my subscription to The Week so I don't know enough to comment on it. 

People keep saying that in a bad economy you should simplify and eliminate excess spending...maybe I should start with my magazine subscriptions.