<p>Every year about this time of year, a friend’s son"s school does the magazine subscription fundraiser. I usually subscribe to a magazine or two. Last year I decided to send my freshman D “People” at school. I got the half year subscription, so it would run out before school ended. I didn’t tell her. One day she asked me, ’ Do you know who sent me People?" She and her roomamtes really enjoyed reading it. Before she left in Aug., she asked if I was going to send it to her again.</p>
<p>People is just perfect for a college student…brain fluff that can be skimmed in the amount of time it takes to check out of the grocery store (oh, wait–that’s me!). Great escape “reading”…</p>
<p>My D’s guilty pleasure is Vanity Fair. A sort of slightly-higher-brow “People”</p>
<p>My grade school D is selling magazines for school too…I wanted to send Freshman D a magazine too, but People was pretty pricey…so I went went Entertainment Weekly - I got 20 issues for $15 - cheap, will still have the entertainment factor, weekly mail and by the time they actually get it started (seems like it always takes a couple of months) she should get all 20 issues by the time the school year is over.</p>
<p>S gets a subscription to sports Illustrated at college even though he watches every ESPN channel available, and does Fantasy Football, Baseball,etc.
Maybe its the equiv of People for guys?</p>
<p>I recently got myself a subscription to Vanity Fair. There may be a ton of fashion in there, but there’s always one article worth paying for, like David Halberstam on Iraq (Aug) and Christopher Hitchens on atheism (Sept). My D asked for The Atlantic <em>and</em> The Week as college graduation presents.</p>
<p>I sent D at Yale a subscription to New Republic and The Wall Street Journal. She needs to be balanced.</p>
<p>Seriously, I hate high school fundraising.</p>