[speaker001:] well I subscribe to a few magazines on a regular basis how about you
[speaker002:] oh yes I do um I always enter those things that come through the mail you know that's right yeah yeah they do
[speaker001:] oh really they like you
[speaker002:] so I have just about everything at sometime or other
[speaker001:] really how many how many uh would you say at any given time you tend to subscribe to
[speaker002:] oh probably no more than say five at the time
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh what are your favorites
[speaker002:] well I like uh McCalls Reader's
[speaker001:] we subscribe to that one now too
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh Reader's Digest Redbook um Good uh let's see Good Housekeeping Better Homes and Gardens um and uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh do you like that one I had I had started that one about a year ago thinking that it would be a nice way to get some decorating tips and and more interior kinds of things but um it's really a collection of everything it has got a lot of um home making kinds of things too you know food as well as indoor and outdoor stuff
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah I I love to get recipes you know out of the magazine I cut them out put them in a book and yeah
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah uh-huh me too I'm not sure that I use them as often as I think that I will but I sure uh pay attention to them and cut them out
[speaker002:] oh yeah oh I also um usually get a magazine about travel and um
[speaker001:] do you use the tips and a suggestions do you do you travel often enough that you are able to to take advantage of it
[speaker002:] not not really um uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh just fun just sort of
[speaker002:] I I read them and you know get ideas but um I don't travel that much
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] so but I
[speaker001:] the thing I like about magazines is that they are a wonderful diversion for a brief period of time if you feel like you are not in the mood to really sit down with a book for a long time it's it's a perfect short
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] attention getter
[speaker002:] yes it really is yeah and um oh I like the uh beauty tips and you know all that fashion stuff and um
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh do you do you have favorite fashion oriented magazines
[speaker002:] no not really I I just read them a from the magazines that I get I don't really take a fashion magazine or anything
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh uh-huh none that are specifically focused on fashion
[speaker002:] oh no just just what's in the regular magazines
[speaker001:] yeah I have a friend who works for a magazine that's based in France called Elle
[speaker002:] but uh
[speaker001:] and and I remember seeing it enough times at her house that I wondered how often people subscribe to those kinds of magazines because you almost have to be in the business to be as intrigued with some of those fashions they're so bizarre
[speaker002:] yeah that's true it's
[speaker001:] we all have to change our wardrobe regularly enough to invest in the magazine
[speaker002:] that's uh that's right you sure would oh yeah I you know keep entering these contests taking all of these magazines thinking I'll win that big
[speaker001:] Publisher's Clearing House
[speaker002:] yeah right oh and there's several others that uh I get through the mail and uh you know they have contests like that not as big as that one but anyway I've always been kind of a sucker I guess for magazines
[speaker001:] well that's sort of another uh added attraction of those uh contests I guess you could probably enter the contests without getting the magazines but it's not much fun
[speaker002:] yeah you can yeah that's true um Redbook I've always taken Redbook for years and years and years they used to have a novel in the back
[speaker001:] um-hum oh really
[speaker002:] yeah but they quit doing that and I sure miss it
[speaker001:] hm I don't know Redbook very well what what does it tend to be a mix of uh fashion and and recipes and that sort of thing or what what did
[speaker002:] yeah it's similar to like McCalls or something like that yeah
[speaker001:] oh is it uh-huh
[speaker002:] yeah not too much different
[speaker001:] tend to focus more on women's issues than
[speaker002:] yes definitely uh-huh yeah but they have some good short stories too
[speaker001:] uh-huh um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh but I really miss that novel it used to make to take me oh say a Sunday afternoon you know I'd crawl up on the couch with my Redbook and read the novel
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's interesting I always thought that that was a big enough attraction in a lot of magazines that they I'm surprised that they would get rid of it
[speaker002:] yeah I don't know why they did I never did hear anything at all about it all of a sudden it was just gone
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum McCalls certainly has changed a lot of over the years
[speaker002:] yeah they used to be a big magazine and you know they cut the size down and
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] all but uh
[speaker001:] I used to get one called Savvy that went out of business or merged or something and since I had only half the subscription through they automatically switched all their readers instead of Savvy got McCalls and that's how I got introduced to it
[speaker002:] oh is that right well I can remember yeah seeing Savvy I don't know that I ever subscribed to it but I've seen it you know in
[speaker001:] yeah I liked it I thought it was kind of a nice