Dear neighbor: Thanks for the magazines!
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My extremely generous neighbor whom I've never even met -- his name is Michael -- has given me subscriptions to two of the hottest celebrity gossip magazines. When I go down to my lobby to check the mail, I always give a quick glance into the recycle bin. Every Friday for the past two months, I've found the latest issues of OK Weekly and US Weekly -- at the top of the bin, mailing labels still in-tact.I can only speculate about why Michael doesn't even bother reading his magazines. Perhaps they were a gift that he didn't want. Perhaps he gets multiple copies because of some clerical error. Or maybe he has a new live-in girlfriend, and admitting that he actually spends money to keep up to date on celebrity news would make him feel like less of a man. Whatever the reason, I get both magazines at 100% off the weekly newsstand price of $7.98 -- plus the fistful of change I'll get for writing this post.
If you live in a big building, it might be worth a quick -- and discrete -- look through the recycling by the mailboxes every once in awhile. And I have a request for the USPS: each post office should include a magazine rack where people can place anything that they receive but don't want.
OK, I'm going back to reading "Britney & Jamie Lynn at Home: OK World Exclusive!"
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5-11-2008 @ 8:31PM
LP said...
I do this all the time, but it's the trash room on my floor that I check for magazines, newspapers and clean boxes (I mail a lot of stuff). In fact, in my old building, my wealthy neighbor and his magazine editor wife threw out their trash each night at 10 p.m., like clockwork. By 10:05 p.m., I'd be in there, looking for good finds. I felt like a bit of a sneak, but I often got up-to-the-minute, barely touched magazines and newspapers. When they were expecting a baby and cleaning out, I hit the jackpot on new, unwrapped housewares. It's amazing what people will toss. You just have to be careful not to overtake just because it's new or free.
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