hello
hello
this is Marilyn Spivey Richardson Texas
uh Marilyn it's Angela
i knew that was you well this should be a good one your mother will like it
how funny
let's see now what do i do push
push one
push one okay hold on
okay are you there
uh-huh
well do you subscribe to any magazines
yes
which ones do you
uh Soap Opera Digest is one
oh how many soap operas do you listen to
and
uh just two mainly
oh and so you can keep up with when you miss with that
yeah well it was a special thing it i think it was like a free subscription
um
that you got to see if you'd like the magazine and you would renew it at the end of it i never did but
oh i see do you subscribe to any others
but we take Consumer
yeah i Consumer Digest
oh
now we do like that one
now what do you find out in that because i haven't read that one
it it has all different kinds of uh tips on on
like appliances and TV's and VCR's and cars
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just different things that you buy and and what the latest items are out and stuff it it's real informative
oh uh-huh
and then People magazine
okay well i only subscribe to two one of them is People magazine
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and uh that usually has the latest oh people in the world very interesting and then i subscribe i bet you know what this one's going to be
to the National Enquirer because it's good light reading some of it i wouldn't believe but i but it's interesting reading and believe it or not there are a few interesting articles in it too
yeah i'd forgotten
yeah they're i've i've bought it a couple of times that or one of the other ones like that one you know after reading the front page there will be something that just catches my eye and i'll go ahead and buy it
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because sometimes like you said not all of it is believable and if you use your own judgment you can usually decipher what is and what's not
well it's good light reading and since our business is at the house i when i'm eating lunch i like to read one or the other you know comes in the mail once a week and and that's what i read when i eat my lunch
but i really don't read that many i never do buy them you know like when i'm at the grocery store magazines much i guess pretty much after that it's the newspaper and just books
do
yeah yeah i don't i don't buy
i don't buy then at the store either i can't even remember the last time i bought one at the grocery store in a long time
yeah i used to years ago read like Ladies Home Journal and McCall's and some of those but i
i just kind of stick to these two now but uh you know because they come to i do subscribe and they come once a week so you know they're and i don't really have time to read anymore
right
what don't you like about the magazines
what you mean the two that i subscribe subscribe to
yeah
yeah
uh oh well now i i guess i just pick out and read out of both of them what interests me there's an article about
something way out in the National Enquirer or something i just you know i just don't read it i just read the ones that sound interesting to me usually about movie stars or famous people
yeah
yeah i
i been reading all the stuff about Ted Kennedy
i don't like all the advertisements and some sometimes it seems like the magazines are full of more
advertisements than they are anything else
yeah now that that's true there is a lot of those i don't pay any i don't read those much either
i don't either it's just you have to turn all those pages to get finally to the story you were reading
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when it's interrupted
but i like People magazine too
yeah uh uh although it's getting rather expensive since on the last time i had to
uh subscribe for a year it was like seventy five dollars and i'm this will probably be the last time
yeah it is getting real expensive
i'll just buy the ones off the newsstand then once a month or something when there's something i'm especially interested in reading about you know
yeah or get somebody in the neighborhood to to do it and then everybody pass it through
yeah that's probably what we should do like they they do books that way you know so uh
uh-huh
okay so does your mother still take People magazine
they didn't renew their subscription because of that
cost measure huh we all have to have those every once in a while
uh-huh
yeah well i think we're just going to do like you said just take the ones at the newsstand that that look interesting from now on because seventy five dollars for a magazine that's just that's too much that's
right
yeah
they're all so much more than they used to be years ago years ago i think people read a lot more magazines
yeah
but uh
i don't think people have time to read them anymore
well that's true
it's just usually the newspapers and
and then they're off doing their own thing
that's true
weekends and stuff are pretty full and that's about the only time
people seem to read on the weekends
yeah yeah
because mainly i i'm like you i read books
uh-huh and and it's it's more as i can think more people do i think just read books
more
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so
well let's see if you were going to subscribe to a magazine which one would you pick other than the ones that are you reading
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i don't know i i'm i just i don't i'm not that interested in the magazines it you know other than like People or this Consumer Digest and the reason why we got that one was
you know it has good informative things in there for things your gonna be buying at at one time or other and you can save them and it's got like tax tips in it and stuff like that
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maybe the the other one there's one out that's that has to do with with financial things like how to save money and and what bonds and insurancers and stuff like that to buy that we've got we had a
yeah
sample subscription to that one and that one was was good too it had a the article the one that that uh was a sample one had an article article in there about college
saving for your children and what to do and what not to do and how much the uh uh projected cost was going to be by the time like mine reached college age and stuff
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yeah
and it's going to be pretty darn expensive and and it was saying you know what to you know how you could go about putting
starting to save now
yeah yeah like those E-bonds there's something called an E-bond that you can buy and it and it you don't have to pay taxes on it and it's for the child and then when they turn it in when it matures
