My sister subscribed; I actually still remember a lot of those articles and titles (from whence I knew not until just now!). I remember finding the "making it" feature unique; all the more so later, when I realized that newsstand publications were designed for advertising products and not for teaching people how to make DIY fishnet shirts.
My parents got me a subscription a few years later when I was a teenager. Then one day I started getting "Teen" magazine in the mail instead, with a scant feature called "The Sassy Slant", which was all that remained when it got absorbed. I didn't renew.
What a bummer. I forgot about Teen Magazine. After writing this, I was thinking about the development of my periodical tastes. I remember being a wee little youngster and having a Ranger Rick subscription as well as a brief Highlights subscription. As a pre-teen geek, I was way way way way into Smithsonian Magazine. I still remember realizing that I was the only 13 year old who was into reading about the history of the toothpick. There were some fleeting relationships with Seventeen, YM and Spin, but I think I became too cool for that pretty quickly. After that it was CMJ New Music Magazine and ReadyMade. I can't really think of any subscriptions that I would like these days. Maybe Bitch. Bust is okay, but I'm always left feeling a little lukewarm by it.
I got Highlights, followed by Jack and Jill, then Cricket, then a succession of odd ones: Bats Magazine, because I was a member of BCI, International; Left-Handed magazine, a Christmas gift subscription; the aforementioned Sassy experiment; probably others. My college roommate subscribed to Bitch, but I generally preferred Bust. After college I started subscribing to Newsweek. My parents periodically (no pun intended) sign me up for mags like Inc. or Fast Company; the latest one is Wired (I have four unopened issues of Wired lying around my apartment). I'd rather not be subscribed to anything because I have a terrible time keeping up with it all these days. I thought about getting a ReadyMade subscription, but it's probably better that I haven't.
ReadyMade had a promising start, it became a little too much like "Dwell" Light. More stuff for moneyed yuppies with loft spaces fewer things for..uh.. anyone else.
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My parents got me a subscription a few years later when I was a teenager. Then one day I started getting "Teen" magazine in the mail instead, with a scant feature called "The Sassy Slant", which was all that remained when it got absorbed. I didn't renew.
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I'd rather not be subscribed to anything because I have a terrible time keeping up with it all these days. I thought about getting a ReadyMade subscription, but it's probably better that I haven't.
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