Major Magazine Purge

            Every few months, I go through my recent issues of Real Simple and Martha Stewart Living Magazines, cut out the articles and ideas I want to keep, then recycle the rest of the magazine.  I am terrible about reading magazines cover to cover; I always peruse and rarely read the articles.  So, when I am cutting pages out, I always keep the things that look interesting enough that I might want to read them someday.

            I'm considering doing a little project (a Julie & Julia, if you will) where I force myself to do as many of the projects, cook as many of the recipes, and follow as much of the advice, from those clippings, as I can.  We'll see.

            But the real point of this post this morning is to talk about Nate the Great and his subscriptions to biking magazines.  There must be at least 4 different cycling magazines that come here every month.  I call them "bike porn" because he's always so excited about them.  And for years, he has sworn he can't get rid of any of them.  So this morning, in a real effort to make some space on the shelves and the coffee table, I urged him to do as I do, and go through the magazines and keep only the good articles.  

            Well, I brought out 4 big piles of bike magazines and what does he do?  Looks at the cover of each one, then throws them in a pile on the floor, claiming he doesn't need to keep any of them!  Hallelujah!  More shelf space for crafty articles!  

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