I wanted to highlight a few new free magazine subscription offers for you:
Cosmopolitan Free 4 issues – Offered by StartSampling, which is the best source of free magazine subscriptions. I’ve gotten every single free magazine I’ve requested from them and have never had a problem with getting automatic renewals or bills. It’s easy to sign-up, and once you do all you have to do is log-in and your freebie will be mailed to you. This offer might be a regional one, I have heard from one Freebie Friday reader who did not see it showing up on StartSampling although it still appears for me.
More Free 1-Yr. – Offered by StartSampling, get your free 10 issue subscription before they are all gone! This magazine is targeted to women who are 40+.
Free magazines are popping up all the time, but some of the more popular titles are only available for a short time (less than a day). I am enjoying my free magazines, and I will no longer pay for magazine subscriptions. One exception that I make is for All You, but between the reader survey and the coupons that magazine has already paid for itself for me.
I encourage you to think about how you can give your free magazines a second life. What magazines are you getting for free in the mail? What are you doing with your magazines when you are done with them? Please post a comment and share with us!
Thanks for letting me know – it sounds like maybe the offer has changed to a free trial issue instead of a free subscription? Is anyone else experiencing this? I’ve already order mine, so it’s hard for me to confirm this.
I tried to request the “free” subscription to More and another magazine listed as “free”, but when I filled out the form, a fine print notice in parenthesis appeared in the upper right corner of the screen that said my first issue AND AN INVOICE for $22 for one $18 for the other, would arrive in __ weeks. I opted to skip rather than submit the form.
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I recycle my magazines by sending them overseas to soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. I send care packages to soldiers from my husband’s former base full of all the extra goodies I get from CVS and Target. All of those things are hard to come by for the soldiers who don’t have family members to send them to them. I encourage anyone looking for something to do with old magazines, books or movies to check out http://www.anysoldier.com/.
I work in a school library and teachers are always coming to me to get magazines to read or cut up for their students’ projects. I take my magazines to school for the teachers to use. Teachers will always take donations like that for their classrooms.
I, too, recycle my magazines once I’m finished with them, by either dropping off a handful at hospital waiting rooms, doctors’ offices, or the local university student center. I do try to determine which magazines would be a good fit (by content) for the locale where I leave them.
I just got a subscription to Parenting magazine through AdPerk, it did not take me more than 15 min of “watching” videos. That was easy! I was subscribing to 10+ magazines and realized I did not like some of them as much as I thought. I decided to transfer the subscriptions through Freecycle (www.freecycle.org). As for the older issues, I either freecycle them or give them to my daughter’s occupational therapist. I know she then passes them on, which is exactly what I want!
Heather, I have e-mailed you more details of the adperk program.
Thanks, V! I haven’t tried AdPerk yet because I felt it required too much time to watch the ads to earn the free subscription. I will definitely try it out (and set my timer) when a new magazine is offered that I’m not already getting!
I have to say, I was a bit overwhelmed when I began receiving my free magazines – I wasn’t sure what to do with them all, how would I ever find time to read them? My daughter has a lot of doctor’s appts, so I bring a bag of magazines along – and leave them in the waiting room when I’m finished flipping through them. It’s been great fun for me to pass them along!
Have you ever heard of adperk.com? You can earn magazine subscriptions for watching a few ads. It appears to be completely legitimate and they are currently offering:ParentingRedbookOdePopular ScienceField and Streamwith several more to come. I have watched ads there and I am currently receiving a few subscriptions. You never receive a bill, and it also seems that since starting this I am getting offers of other free subscriptions or extremely reduced price subscriptions. I’m never paying for magazines again either! =c)
Thanks, Heather! I just got a free subscription to MORE for my mom.