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Do you know where your magazines are right now? Really. Just how many magazines are in your home right now? And where are they? Are they organized in a magazine holder or tossed across your home?

Recently thesimpledollar.com ran an article about if it’s worthwhile to have magazine subscriptions. Trent, the blog article author, addressed some pointed questions that allowed him to decide if his magazine subscriptions were a good buy “for him” (your answer might be different). He also pointed out that “for many people magazine subscriptions are a great waste of money.”

But they’re not just a waste of money. For some people they’re a waste of space in your home. They’re clutter at times.

I’ve been a print journalist and an avid magazine reader. But I have to say I spend more time reading online now than in print. Often online I can get similar information (depending on the topic) that’s timely (or not –because evergreen information is useful too). And I dislike the clutter of magazine subscriptions around my home. Paper attracts a LOT of dust. I don’t like dusting (though it’s a necessity). And dust just makes me sniffle and sneeze–a lot.

But print magazines do have a place too, especially when you want a change of pace from the computer and to rest your eyes away from the monitor. And it’s still a lot easier to recline on the couch with a print magazine than to do so with a computer screen. So I do read a few print magazines too. In the past few years I’ve subscribed to some interesting and popular print magazines. And actually I took advantage of some offers to get these subscriptions for free. But even free is too much sometimes. And it’s proved so for me to the point where I don’t say yes to every free magazine offer I happen across. That said I made a little list based on past experience with print magazines in our home so you’d know that…

…It’s time to cut your magazine subscriptions when…. (more…)