FOJMO
03-11-2003, 12:18 PM
I just received my April issue of Ladies Home Journal and I just can't stand this anymore!
It's not JUST the LHJ, but almost every magazine anymore that I try to read.
I found 16 inserts/cards in this issue and it seems that's the trend in all the magazines. Doesn't that drive you crazy???
You can't even thumb back to a certain article on a certain page, because the pages keep stopping everywhere there's an insert, and that seems to be almost every 10 pages or so.
Everything from trial prescription medicine, to awnings for your home, to sleep videos, to those UGLY dolls that people actually probably buy, to the good old Bradford Exchange collections.
I usually spend the first 5 minutes with a magazine just tearing out the inserts. In fact, when my DD (17) was a toddler, I came into the living room one day and found her ripping one of my magazines to shreds. I was dumbfounded, until my DH said, "Hey, she's just copying you. She's probably thinking you're just ripping up the magazine when you're just tearing out the inserts"! Too funny!
It's not JUST the LHJ, but almost every magazine anymore that I try to read.
I found 16 inserts/cards in this issue and it seems that's the trend in all the magazines. Doesn't that drive you crazy???
You can't even thumb back to a certain article on a certain page, because the pages keep stopping everywhere there's an insert, and that seems to be almost every 10 pages or so.
Everything from trial prescription medicine, to awnings for your home, to sleep videos, to those UGLY dolls that people actually probably buy, to the good old Bradford Exchange collections.
I usually spend the first 5 minutes with a magazine just tearing out the inserts. In fact, when my DD (17) was a toddler, I came into the living room one day and found her ripping one of my magazines to shreds. I was dumbfounded, until my DH said, "Hey, she's just copying you. She's probably thinking you're just ripping up the magazine when you're just tearing out the inserts"! Too funny!