Magazines

I go through phases with magazines--there are times when I devour them and times when I think they take up too much space for too little impact.  But lately I've been yearning for them to return, and so yesterday I finalized a list of things I'll be subscribing to.  Again, interests be priority in this tough, tough economy.  But I've narrowed it down to the following:

1. SCUBA Magazine (renewed)
2. National Geographic + iPad Content
3. National Geographic Traveler
4. Cooks Illustrated

I'm wavering back and forth between subscribing to The Economist (I really took my university library's free issues for granted!) for a cool $127 a year, which is about equal to $2.50 a magazine and about $10 a month, but the total figure for that, even if it is a weekly affair, is kind of hard to swallow.  I'm also contemplating subscribing to the NYT online, and the special editions of TIME Magazine (which I usually gobble up at the grocery store despite their $12.99 price tag).

Fortunately my mother's subscriptions to her fitness journals seem never-ending, even if I have to find them between issues of Us and People. :)