[speaker001:] hello
[speaker002:] hello
[speaker001:] this is Marilyn Spivey Richardson Texas
[speaker002:] uh Marilyn it's Angela
[speaker001:] I knew that was you well this should be a good one your mother will like it
[speaker002:] how funny
[speaker001:] let's see now what do I do push
[speaker002:] push one
[speaker001:] push one okay hold on  okay are you there
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] well do you subscribe to any magazines
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] which ones do you
[speaker002:] uh Soap Opera Digest is one
[speaker001:] oh how many soap operas do you listen to
[speaker002:] and uh just two mainly
[speaker001:] oh and so you can keep up with when you miss with that
[speaker002:] yeah well it was a special thing it I think it was like a free subscription
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] that you got to see if you'd like the magazine and you would renew it at the end of it I never did but
[speaker001:] oh I see do you subscribe to any others
[speaker002:] but we take Consumer yeah I Consumer Digest
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] now we do like that one
[speaker001:] now what do you find out in that because I haven't read that one
[speaker002:] it it has all different kinds of uh tips on on like appliances and TV's and VCR's and cars
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] just different things that you buy and and what the latest items are out and stuff it it's real informative
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and then People magazine
[speaker001:] okay well I only subscribe to two one of them is People magazine
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh that usually has the latest oh people in the world very interesting and then I subscribe I bet you know what this one's going to be to the National Enquirer because it's good light reading some of it I wouldn't believe but I but it's interesting reading and believe it or not there are a few interesting articles in it too
[speaker002:] yeah I'd forgotten yeah they're I've I've bought it a couple of times that or one of the other ones like that one you know after reading the front page there will be something that just catches my eye and I'll go ahead and buy it
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] because sometimes like you said not all of it is believable and if you use your own judgment you can usually decipher what is and what's not
[speaker001:] well it's good light reading and since our business is at the house I when I'm eating lunch I like to read one or the other you know comes in the mail once a week and and that's what I read when I eat my lunch but I really don't read that many I never do buy them you know like when I'm at the grocery store magazines much I guess pretty much after that it's the newspaper and just books
[speaker002:] do yeah yeah I don't I don't buy I don't buy then at the store either I can't even remember the last time I bought one at the grocery store in a long time
[speaker001:] yeah I used to years ago read like Ladies Home Journal and McCall's and some of those but I I just kind of stick to these two now but uh you know because they come to I do subscribe and they come once a week so you know they're and I don't really have time to read anymore
[speaker002:] right what don't you like about the magazines
[speaker001:] what you mean the two that I subscribe subscribe to
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] uh oh well now I I guess I just pick out and read out of both of them what interests me there's an article about something way out in the National Enquirer or something I just you know I just don't read it I just read the ones that sound interesting to me usually about movie stars or famous people
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I
[speaker001:] I been reading all the stuff about Ted Kennedy
[speaker002:] I don't like all the advertisements and some sometimes it seems like the magazines are full of more advertisements than they are anything else
[speaker001:] yeah now that that's true there is a lot of those I don't pay any I don't read those much either
[speaker002:] I don't either it's just you have to turn all those pages to get finally to the story you were reading
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] when it's interrupted but I like People magazine too
[speaker001:] yeah uh uh although it's getting rather expensive since on the last time I had to uh subscribe for a year it was like seventy five dollars and I'm this will probably be the last time
[speaker002:] yeah it is getting real expensive
[speaker001:] I'll just buy the ones off the newsstand then once a month or something when there's something I'm especially interested in reading about you know
[speaker002:] yeah or get somebody in the neighborhood to to do it and then everybody pass it through
[speaker001:] yeah that's probably what we should do like they they do books that way you know so uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] okay so does your mother still take People magazine
[speaker002:] they didn't renew their subscription because of that
[speaker001:] cost measure huh we all have to have those every once in a while
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah well I think we're just going to do like you said just take the ones at the newsstand that that look interesting from now on because seventy five dollars for a magazine that's just that's too much that's
[speaker001:] right yeah they're all so much more than they used to be years ago years ago I think people read a lot more magazines
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but uh
[speaker002:] I don't think people have time to read them anymore
[speaker001:] well that's true
[speaker002:] it's just usually the newspapers and and then they're off doing their own thing
[speaker001:] that's true
[speaker002:] weekends and stuff are pretty full and that's about the only time people seem to read on the weekends
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] because mainly I I'm like you I read books
[speaker001:] uh-huh and and it's it's more as I can think more people do I think just read books
[speaker002:] more um-hum
[speaker001:] so well let's see if you were going to subscribe to a magazine which one would you pick other than the ones that are you reading
[speaker002:] um I don't know I I'm I just I don't I'm not that interested in the magazines it you know other than like People or this Consumer Digest and the reason why we got that one was you know it has good informative things in there for things your gonna be buying at at one time or other and you can save them and it's got like tax tips in it and stuff like that
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] maybe the the other one there's one out that's that has to do with with financial things like how to save money and and what bonds and insurancers and stuff like that to buy that we've got we had a
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] sample subscription to that one and that one was was good too it had a the article the one that that uh was a sample one had an article article in there about college saving for your children and what to do and what not to do and how much the uh uh projected cost was going to be by the time like mine reached college age and stuff
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] and it's going to be pretty darn expensive and and it was saying you know what to you know how you could go about putting
[speaker001:] starting to save now
[speaker002:] yeah yeah like those E-bonds there's something called an E-bond that you can buy and it and it you don't have to pay taxes on it and it's for the child and then when they turn it in when it matures