[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] Why don't you go ahead and start.
[speaker001:] Okay, well, we subscribe to PEOPLE magazine and to TIME, and, of course I like the PEOPLE magazine because it's gossipy
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and it's fast reading, and, uh, the TIME of course, is, uh, you know, more newsworthy and, uh, it has more world affair type things, of course. And then I will purchase a GOOD HOUSEKEEPING occasionally, especially around the holiday time because of recipes and ideas and
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and things like that
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and, uh, do you subscribe to any magazines?
[speaker002:] Yeah, I, well, I have, in a whi-, for a while I haven't gotten any because I just find that I'm not reading what I'm getting because, uh, I have so much going on in my life that seems to be the last thing I pick up, so I found that I was wasting my money. As much as I enjoy them, uh, when I do subscribe I, I've gotten in the past the PARENTS magazine and, uh, the HOUSEKEEPING magazine
[speaker001:] Uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh.
[speaker001:] you probably have smaller children
[speaker002:] Yes, yeah,
[speaker001:] younger children. My children, our children are grown
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah,
[speaker001:] and, uh, I'm letting their mother read on the grandchildren [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Right, well, I found that after a couple of years of having a PARENTS magazine it was getting repetitious, so I kind of canceled it anyway for that reason. Uh, the HOUSEKEEPING magazines I do like because they, like you say, they have nice, uh, recipes in them and ideas, but, uh, lately they've just been piling up on me, so I figured it wasn't, uh, something I needed at this point in time.
[speaker001:] Well, do you think that people subscribe to magazines as much as they used to?
[speaker002:] I don't know, I, I, well, my husband would love to have more. Now he's the type who will get the, uh, INC. magazine and MONEY magazine and all the financial type magazines,
[speaker001:] Yes, now my husband does that, and
[speaker002:] Yeah,
[speaker001:] you know, and of course, uh, naturally WALL STREET JOURNAL, you know
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, yes.
[speaker001:] and, or SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, but I don't know, I know a few people leafing through them at the store
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] but you just don't hear people talk about them, and I know years ago, when, uh, my children were young and stuff, I just loved LADIES HOME JOURNAL, McCALL'S, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, and I took them all
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and, uh, then, oh, I don't know what in the seventies, maybe, late seventies they changed their format
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and I haven't, I don't think there's been a magazine as they used to be
[speaker002:] Well
[speaker001:] even GOOD HOUSEKEEPING I don't,
[speaker002:] yeah, and some of those have had what, what I consider or what I get the idea that they are maybe the, the more pricier type magazines, as far as women's magazines. They seem just to be so chocked full of, of ads.
[speaker001:] Oh, they are. My sister, uh, takes, uh, TOWN AND COUNTRY and VOGUE
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and she sends them to me, and there's really nothing in them but advertisements
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah,
[speaker001:] for very expensive clothes, very expensive jewelry
[speaker002:] Yes.
[speaker001:] things that the average middle class citizen is not going to be purchasing [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Right [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] you know, and if I want to drool or if I want to see how the other half is living
[speaker002:] Yes.
[speaker001:] you know, then I can, I look through them
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and I do, I just, what I do is I flip through them and, and pitch them then, you know, they're not something I, you know, take any length of time over.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I have discovered that, you know, with my available time, I would rather actually read a book
[speaker002:] Yes
[speaker001:] than a magazine.
[speaker002:] I enjoy books a lot more
[speaker001:] Yes
[speaker002:] that's true.
[speaker001:] and, uh.
[speaker002:] Well
[speaker001:] So, but.
[speaker002:] now I have certainly stopped subscribing as much as I used to, other than my children have gotten. You know, they get tons of magazines it seems
[speaker001:] Yes [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] they're always getting something in the mail and, and, uh, so between reading to them and, uh, reading the newspaper, and then I have a book that I'm occasionally reading when I get a chance, but I just don't get a chance for those, uh, newsy magazines, the ones that are full of ads, unless you just want to skim through while you're, I, I read them when I'm at a doctor's office or, you know, waiting on something like that.
[speaker001:] Yes, yes, I will read them in a doctor's office, too.
[speaker002:] Yeah,
[speaker001:] As I said, I, I subscribe to, uh, to PEOPLE and to TIME, and, uh, and I will go through the TIME, but, usually not cover to cover, you know, I'll glance through it. I like reading, uh, you know, the PASSAGE OF PEOPLE or something
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, uh-huh.
[speaker001:] you know, and, uh, but I do like the PEOPLE magazine. It, it reminds me of the old time movie magazines when I was young
[speaker002:] Oh, uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and, uh, that's one, and you know, I really like that, I enjoy that. It's quick reading
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] you know, it doesn't require [LAUGHTER] a lot of thinking, and sometimes after I've worked all day
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and have things to do at night, I just, I want fluff [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I don't want a lot of thinking [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] That's true, that kind of is a good way to do it.
[speaker001:] It, uh, you know, it's, it's much more relaxing. Sometimes when I read TIME magazine, after I've read an article I'm real depressed over the situation of the world [LAUGHTER],
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] so. Well, it seems like we both kind of agree on the subject of magazines
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah.
[speaker001:] and, uh
[speaker002:] Okay.
[speaker001:] so, uh, I think that probably I will end the call. I've enjoyed,