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Which magazine subscription have you kept up the longest?

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Vanity Fair has got to be my longest running unbroken subscription of at least 35 years. Thought about this today because Dad decided after he gave me $10K in a Schwab account that we should now get the Wall Street Journal, so Mom did not renew VF like she has as a Christmas gift for the last 20 years or so. National Geographic, Time, and Smithsonian will go in several year subscriptions, then lag for many years before we pick them up again. I had to get Cliff to turn the New Yorker off because he couldn't tear himself away from the computer long enough to keep up with a magazine that arrived once a week and it drove me crazy to see the huge pile of un-reads. I think I took House Beautiful for close to 30 years before I decided their style was passing me by and no longer had much to offer me.
 
Rolling stone at only 2 yrs continuous. I have been on and off for about 15 yrs.
 
Reader's Digest and Taste of Home for us, although we don't read them anywhere near as often as we used to. We consume most of our media online.

If you subscribe to magazines, I have a price comparison site that makes it easy to find the best prices:

http://www.magazinepricesearch.com
 
Sunset magazine. I just can't let it go.
 
Two flying related magazines come with my memberships in two flying organizations. Been a member of those two since I earned my pilot certificate some 40 years ago. Never had any other subscriptions although DW had several over the years.

Cheers
 
Consumer Reports I think has been continuous for over 20 years. My plan is to let it run out and only keep their website subscription at this point. We’ve been receiving UU World nearly as long, but there was a break when we moved and changed congregations. And our college alumni magazines.
 
Consumer Reports, Kiplinger's and Money Magazine all three (3) for over 25 years.
However, The only one I am paying for is Consumer Reports.
 
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klpca said:
Sunset magazine. I just can't let it go.
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Sunset is another we'll go without for years, then see a good price and/or a great issue at a doctor's office and we'll sign up again. My best winter horse dovers recipe came from Sunset -- Brie & Winter Fruit!
 
MichaelColey said:
Reader's Digest and Taste of Home for us, although we don't read them anywhere near as often as we used to. We consume most of our media online.

If you subscribe to magazines, I have a price comparison site that makes it easy to find the best prices:

http://www.magazinepricesearch.com
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My VF renewal beat the price from the above website; $24/24months. I would normally take the path of least resistance and buy from the publisher, but when VF themselves wanted $19.95 for a year, I googled and came up with a better price. Now we'll see if I really get access in 24-48 hours! VF works just fine on the iPad (unlike any newspaper subscription I've ever tried to load) so I always pass the print copy to Mom unopened.
 
Fortune. I don't count the years but it could be 40 or 50. It is dirt cheap today, 12 issues for $10.00. My guess is that low price = more subscribers = more revenue from advertisers...

George
 
Wall Street Journal since 1986.
Money since 1994.
Sports Illustrated since 1971, when my dad was paying for it and my brothers and I raced to the mailbox to see who could get to it first.
I recently discontinued--after more than 30 years--my subs to National Geographic and Smithsonian because of their increasingly political content.
 
Mine would have been MONEY magazine I guess- and Kiplingers- but I just removed them from our household budget, along with Timesharing Today and National Parks since I am doing a lot of chopping of expenses.

Long time magazines I am keeping include VERMONT (my absolute favorite!), YANKEE, NEW HAMPSHIRE. I also got VERMONT LIFE for many years but it has sadly gone out of business in 2018.

To me, the VERMONT magazine is like a work of art. The photography, the stories. the "feel" of the magazine and the beautiful cover photos. I actually get excited when I get it. I used to save every single one of them (and The Vermont Life ones as well) thinking when I am old in a rocking chair I would sit and dream as I go through them. I finally had to come to terms with the fact that I had to get rid of them. It was hard but I did it- like I did with my many books. And now I force my self to toss each issue into the recycling bin after the next one comes in the mail. But it still pains me a bit.

Also get Nature Conservancy free because we donate to the organization out of each of my husband paychecks. And we get SKI magazine free- though we don't ski- LOL!- because Smugglers Notch sends a subscription to it each year to all the owners. And we get a free local magazine called "Orange" named for the county we border with.

I used to get tons more over the years. I was a magazine junkie for the longest time and finally came to my senses. Ha! Ha!:)

Hubby gets Guns and Ammo and American Rifleman for many years now as well.

When the magazines come up for renewal I generally do not renew but go on line and reorder off a discount site like Magazines.com, or DiscountMags.com, etc., if I can. It's a big savings.
 
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American Rifleman since 1984.
 
Funny how do far nobody's named America's largest subscription magazine. AARP. Had it 22 years so far, and Smithsonian. Love Sunset, but they piss me off with recipe ingredients NOBODY has on hand. So I drop them and re-up months later.

Jim
 
We had National Geographic for 40 years.
 
We've had Hawaii Magazine, Time, and The Bottom Line so long that I can't remember when any of them started. My dad gave us a gift subscription to The Bottom Line, so it's been at least since 2003 when he passed away.
 
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We've had Hawaii Magazine, Time, and The Bottom Line so long that I can't remember when any of them started. My dad gave us a gift subscription to The Bottom Line, so it's been at least since 2003 when he passed away.
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I subscribed to Bottom Line Personal in 1992, and dropped it last year. It is aimed a working parents, and we are neither.
 
We don't belong to AARP. Not sure what the benefit of it is- except I know for some people it is the health insurance. We used to for about a year and then dropped it. Then we signed with AMAC and it was the same so dropped that also.
 
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