Magazines are SO 2007 - Cheap Chick Tip

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Tip #9: Magazines are SO 2007

With magazine after magazine failing or on the brink of failure, the likelihood that the big, glossy subs will keep coming to your mailbox month-after-month is pretty grim. But you don't want all those magazines anyway, right? Besides the subscription fees, you promised yourself to "go green," and cut out all that paper. So here are three ways you can meet that goal and still get the news you crave:

1. RSS that mess: Why get your news monthly, when you can just have the news come to you hourly? I use Google Reader, but you can use just about any RSS service to feed your favorite magazine's website blogs into your computer. Yep, even People!

2. Swap it: Can't give up the paper? Well, say you get Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone, but your friend gets about 50 fashion mags. Why not set up a circle of friends who love glossy mags but all have different interests? That way all of you are reading at a fraction of the cost.

3. Deal your address away: It may be news, but companies love selling your info. So the next time someone offers you a six-month free subscription to a magazine for buying concert tickets, registering on a job board, or answering a survey - take them up on it. You'll probably move 10 times before you're 30 anyway, so the junk mail will taper off eventually.

See? Technology IS beautiful. And you knew there was a reason you had so many friends!