Cybrarian

A couple of threads have been discussing moratoriums or needing one on fabric, books, notions etc. and using what we already have. I've been looking at my quilt magazines and need to do this too. I'm a school media specialist so information is my Achilles heel. [If confused watch "Troy" again--Yes, the Brad Pitt one!]
For me, I know the ones I enjoy the most have more to them than mainly patterns. I like Quilter's Newsletter, The Quilter, American Quilter, The Quilt Life, Fabric Trends, Fons & Porter [it's kind of in the middle] and until I got an email telling of it's demise Quilter's Home. Thankfully they are going to finish out my subscription with Quilter's Newsletter which I needed to renew if I was going to keep getting it. Sadly those are not all the magazines I get and the others I am definitely not renewing.
I did not renew my one online subscription that has QNNtv connected to it, but did do a 6 month The Quilt Show. I really like that, but don't find the time to watch it enough to justify renewing that when it runs out and I've got to cut back. The list of mags still sounds like too many; so I need to get rid of at least one more or suggest it as a gift possibility if I'm asked for ideas. What about you? Is this an area you've corralled, need to, want to or it's your addiction of choice?

luvstoquilt301

I recently gave away all magazines except about 4. I pulled a couple of patterns out of them. I had about 2 milk crates full. Many of them I bought at our guild for a quarter. I had 4 years of Fons and Porter.

There is so much online and I am really trying to declutter. I made someone very happy with them.

Good decision for me. I do not pay for any online things quilty.

Ramona Byrd

I've just made my doctor's patients happy with a bag of mags I don't read any more. I finally admitted that it was time to get a check up, and while there dumped==Sorry, I donated a lot of the latest ones I have. Several more I'll take when I go in for the check up, they seem to hide when they arrive. Makes me wonder if they'll be there when I go in next month!! I suspect, from my years as a hospital volunteer, that a lot of them will go home in other people's bags and back pockets.

isnthatodd

I have only 1 new subscription I paid for, Quiltmaker, 1 as a gift, McCall's quilting, and one that is expiring, Quilter's Newsletter, which I don't particularly enjoy. I am not going to purchase any more subscriptions. I have enough patterns now to make about 200 quilts, which I will never get made. :lol:

donnajean

I'm a retired "Media Specialist" & I stopped subscribing to magazines several years ago. There is just so much available on the Internet now that I don't think it necessary to keep paying subscriptions. If I made 1 quilt a week, I still would not use all the patterns in my binders during my remaining lifetime.

AFQSinc

I have stopped all of my magazine subscriptions except for Martha Stewart Living, Parents Magazine and Good Housekeeping. GH was a gift subscription that I will not renew. I will be renewing Parents (I have a 3 year old and my mom passed away so I get a lot of help and suggestions from the mag). I am not renewing MSL. My last issue will be December 2011. I have been subscribed to MSL since 1996. I have every issue, plus special editions, plus some select back issues from before I subscribed.

At one time I subscribed to over 30 magazines. It got to be too much. So I gave them away and stopped subcribing. I love to read but I found that I couldn't read all of them in a month (not all were monthly though) and I felt guilty when I gave them away. So I just stopped it all.

This being said, I still purchase magazines off of the rack. For some reason I feel less guilty giving away or recycling those than I do the ones I subscribe to. I feel that it is important to support the publishing industry. Particularly magazines and newspapers. We've lost too many good ones. I recognize that I have a problem controlling myself so I have to work hard to not go overboard.

rivka

Definitely -- I've dropped some magazines this year, because I just can't justify the cost anymore. And you can find so much stuff online, why bother paying for magazines?

Juliebelle

I am slowly getting rid of most of mine, can find almost everything I need on line and like everyone else, it is just too much clutter and stuff. I am really working hard to control the mess.

jaciqltznok

I quit getting magazines 2 years ago. When quilter's newsletter started publishing more copykat patterns and less industry news, it was time for even that old friend to GO...
I never did the pay online thing..thought it was a waste, I pay dues to 4 guilds that is all the education I can handle!

I have 15 years worth of magazines to get rid of..maybe more..I think my QNM goes back to the 70's!

MadQuilter

I am not renewing any magazines. Sometimes I browse through the mags in the store and IFF something is really fascinating, I buy it - but those purchases are few and far between.