Are You cutting back your Quilt Mags & Paid Onlines?
07-19-2011, 08:57 AM
#51
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Originally Posted by 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?
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?
07-19-2011, 09:05 AM
#52
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I only get one now that my sister gave me (free w/her subscription). All the others I have not renewed. I scour garage sales for them, scoop up lots at a good price, read/take what I want, then sell them on Craigslist. Once I got 104 mags at a garage sale for $10, then sold most of them on Craigslist for $60....
07-19-2011, 09:40 AM
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As Donnajean said I would have to make one quilt a week to use all the patterns I have or live to be 200 to make one quilt from every quilt magazine I have. No more subs. I cancelled all or let them run out and not renewed, even my Birds and Blooms.
07-19-2011, 10:23 AM
#55
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I am going to let a couple of my subscriptions expire. My husband wants me to go through my magazine collection and just cut out the patterns I want. As I gain more experience and graduate to more difficult quilts I am sure I might need those magazines for different patterns than what I have marked! I have learned a lot from the magazines but guess now I can learn even more from this site. It is a tough decision.
07-19-2011, 11:04 AM
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I love to leaf through magazines, but hate to pay for them. So I get them from our local library. It's great! They have a wide selection and I don't have to pay a dime. I can only keep each issue for a week at a time, but that's usually long enough for me and if it isn't I return it and have my husband borrow it with his card.
Being a single income home, I like to do things like this to save money and let us keep it for things that are more important to us (like our daughter's education and our retirement).
Being a single income home, I like to do things like this to save money and let us keep it for things that are more important to us (like our daughter's education and our retirement).
07-19-2011, 11:17 AM
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i have cut back on my magazines , it seems there are more ads in some of them that what i am looking for , also i am running out of room to keep them , now i look on the internet , this way i dont have to move books around
07-19-2011, 11:17 AM
#58
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I have too many books [100+ pottery & glass books, 30+ cookbooks and 30+ quilt books 100+ classics & mysteries - and that's just what I am keeping], and one small box of older quilt mags I got 2nd hand. With one sub fee, I can buy about 10 yrds of fabric 2nd hand, so . . . I don't sub at all, but I guess I am cutting back on books.
07-19-2011, 12:35 PM
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I used to subscribe to 6 quilting mags. and then the economy went south. I started cutting back and my last one just expired. I found I didn't make many things out of them but did enjoy looking. Anyway, I just look at the old ones I have and if I see one in the LQS that I must have, then I do buy it.
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