outta here
I used to subscribe to a certain magazine that my mom would read. I grew up reading it, so it was almost inevitable that I’d pick up a subscription. But one thing I didn’t like about the magazine, besides the fact that lots of the stories were fluff, was the materialism.
I understand that magazines make money off of advertising… But this woman’s magazine was always featuring beauty, fashion, and luxury products in its articles that were prohibitively expensive. At the time, I was a college student, and I kept thinking, when are they going to feature products that *I* can use? I just didn’t like how it made me feel poor all the time, always talking about things I couldn’t afford as if they should be commonplace. It was as if the editors and writers thought that things weren’t nice unless they cost lots of money.
It didn’t fit in with the frugal mindset that I needed in order to get by in those days, so when my subscription ran out, I was done with the magazine.
I bet I can afford some of that stuff now. But I think the magazine would be more dangerous to me now that it was when I couldn’t afford the stuff featured in the magazine, because now I can just go out and purchase it (some of it anyway). I don’t need that kind of temptation. It’s a sure fire way for me to take even longer to gather the down payment for a home of my own. Fuhgittaboutit. That magazine is outta here.
