Ok, I know that one of the first expenses to go right out the door are the little extra things.  It really would make sense to nix just about anything that looks like it’s taking money from your account that isn’t going toward debt when you’re in such bad shape.  This is my sad attempt at rationalizing why we actually spent over $30 on magazine subscriptions today…

1. We only get the subscriptions that allow us to get them for less than $10/yr.  Usually, we’ll pay $15-20 and get 2-3 year subscriptions making the price less than $1/issue.
2. One single magazine is worth a couple of hours of reading time per person.  We have 4 people that can read in our house, two of which only read some of our collection.  This is potentially up to 8-hrs of reading time for our family for under a buck.  We all know how good reading is for the younger folks over TV too.  (depending on the subject)
3. This is the time of year where some publishers will give perks going into the holidays for renewing now.  This year I was able to get two 1-yr subscriptions as gifts to some friends of ours that we normally do $20 gifts for anyway.  And it was built into the already low $7 annual cost that we had for our 2-yr subscription.  Works for me.

Ok, so there’s my semi-lame excuse for spending $36 to get 3 magazines for the next 2-3 years.  Pile that on top of the subscriptions that other people get for us on an annual basis and we’ve got ourselves quite the library of things to read all year long.

I think this helps us get by without more than 10 TV channels without going insane.  I really can’t stand spending too much time in front of those things anyway.

Today’s Progress:

• Earned - $0
• Spent - $36 (magazine subscriptions)
• Debt Reduced -$0