I am a magazine addict!

Do you always buy one or two magazines every month? Still reasonable.

Do you always buy more than five magazines every month? WOW.

It means that you are addicted to magazines!

Relax, I also included one of them. Haha.. Every month I always buy a few magazines. Whether it's fashion magazines, movie magazines, or whatever. This habit has started since my 1st grade junior high school. I used to see my cousin who like to collect magazines, since then I became interested. Then, addicted! (-.-")

I also still remember the very first magazine I bought was Anita, with B*Witched (a group of female singers) on their cover. Now Anita is no longer published. Is anyone still remember this magazine? I also used to buy GADIS. As I remembered, the famous teen magazine at that time was GADIS, Kawanku, Aneka Yess!, and Anita. Some of the magazines is still published until today, but probably not as well known as first. Since there are so many new teen magazine these days, of course the competition between each magazine became increasingly tight.

I know the habit of buying too many magazines is a bad habit and should be eliminated. Well maybe not 100% eliminated, at least I should be able to reduce it slightly. For example, if you had bought more than five magazines every month, try to be reduce it to just four magazines. If you usually buy three magazines, try to only buy one. I've tried this and it worked. Do it slowly, not too drastic and hasty.

Reading magazine is fun (at least for some people like me), it can waste our time when we're bored, as we read the information and see the latest trends. But as soon as we finished reading, usually the magazines were just placed at random place until it come into trash. Not to mention if we don't want it to be discarded, then we just stacked all of it in a magazine rack, until a few months later when the rack is full, we are forced to throw the magazines away. Can you imagine how much money is wasted?

If we still want to buy those magazines are fine, but we have to control our expenses each month. Better to prepare a special budget for our magazine needs, for example only buy 2 magazines per month, then we have to promise ourself not to buy magazines over that number. Because usually enthusiast magazines like me will not realize the expense in buying magazines. I believe if we had made a special badget for something, hopefully our spending is become well controlled.

Btw, I have a good friend named Elco Frebliaman who is also a magazine addict. He has a special blog to pour this hobby. If you want to come to the blog, please just open Magazines Junkie. Thanks to his blog, he now works at one of the famous fashion magazine in Jakarta! Good for Elco, starting from a hobby to collect and read magazines, now it can generating an income for him. Who knows another fellow who also loves magazine can follow his track one day? :)