A year of magazines can be quite pricey. Our magazines average between £3.50 and £5 per issue if they're monthly

It's a weekly magazine @ £1.65 per week.
So that's £85.80 per year - even applying online discount you're unlikely to get it below £60 ($120).
Then x 3 to make it fair to all siblings......

But hey, if you fany adopting me Cloud, it's Heat magazine :)

Cheap is all relative. Plus annual subscriptions give a bigger discount her than they do in the UK. Oh and in my experience, people spend more money on Chritmans gift here. Lots more. "Stocking fillers" here are main gifts in the UK. Maybe just where Ilive... but $$$$$$

[ot] he's right, you know -about the affording it. Where does it fit into your budget of 1 quid for entertainment? ;) -did you do that budget yet? On paper and all? [/caring nag] Well done on the self control on that one :D [/ot]

hmm, I guess you're right. As an example, I just purchased a 12-month gift subscription for 5.92 pounds ($12 US). Not expensive, in my view. Of course, I regularly spend $1,000 to $2,000 yearly on family Christmas gifts. Maybe 740 pounds? Is that a lot to you?

hell, yes! and I live in the US! :lol:

but you have grandbabies and that's a whole different ballgame.....

by the way, Heat magazine is 72 quid for an annual subscription -saving 14%. Here, for a lot of magazines, you save over 50% of the cover price when you subscribe. Newsweek, for example, is dirt cheap when baought annually -about 50c per week (25p) iirc. Schools sekll magazine subscriptions as fundraisers.

Wow, Heat magazine is expensive. $280 for a yearly subscription.

Go to the library.

I'm just generous.

substitute for actual, you know, love and time.

Oh I have been a good girl I promise - I just suspect his opinion would have been different if it had been the Times Literary Supplement :)

Aye. My parents spend about £20 on each of us at Christmas. Mum might sneak a bit more for me as my sister has children (her share goes on them but Mum inevitably overspends, as I did when I was working) and my bro is better paid than my Mum.

She spends on food, but £740 on presents is far more than she could afford.

okay, oops, I don't mean to make anyone feel bad. I'm very, very (very!) lucky, in that I get an extra paycheck at Christmastime as a bonus, and I usually spend most of that on gifts.

And I always overspend. Every year I tell myself I won't, but I do anyway.

ETA: Here's Heat's online version: http://www.heatworld.com/

I've pretty much stopped subscribing to magazines myself, and my mag purchases have gone way down since so much content is now free on the Net.

I'd almost forgotten what it's like to be cold. It's 37 degrees outside this morning.

Should I wear my coat?

It took me a moment to remember that you'd be using Fahrenheit ... I thought you were being ironic about the coat.

I've had to break out the winter bedding too.

update:

z:
1000 - 368 = 632 posts to go
632 / 18.2 = 34 days

c:
1000 - 846 = 154 posts to go
154 / 2.3 = 66 days

Tick tock people!

for someone who seems to hate weeds so much, this appears a little like fertilizer to my untrained eye...