Budget Living was awesome before The Man wrecked it.
I hacked up most of my copies for cool images to use on CD covers, which I now bitterly regret. Had I known, I'd have treasured them just like I do my mint runs of the golden era Sassy and Spy.
Oh, smacked in the noggin with a 2x4 wrapped in velvet. Yeah, that's what it felt like.
Lorne ,'Smile Time'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JZ - Mar 28, 2008 5:43:40 pm PDT #8085 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Pix - Mar 28, 2008 5:43:50 pm PDT #8086 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I do love Ms. Magazine, though, got to say. Definitely not a magazine telling you to BUY BUY BUY and LOSE WEIGHT and GET A GUY!
It's much too serious for the kind of magazine you're talking about, though. I'd like a little frivolity and budget living in my non-gender-stereotyped magazine.
Jesse - Mar 28, 2008 5:44:08 pm PDT #8087 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have no idea what you're talking about, but I agree entirely.
Good man.
Jesse - Mar 28, 2008 5:44:46 pm PDT #8088 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Allyson sounds like she's talking about a Bust/Budget Living mashup to me.
Steph L. - Mar 28, 2008 5:44:51 pm PDT #8089 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Man, I loved Sassy. *Before* Jane left, it should go without saying.
But the magazine I miss most of all is the dear, departed Mode. No other magazine for plus-size women who want actual fashion instead of muumuus comes close.
t edit This cover, more than anything I can think of, exemplifies MODE in its glory days: [link]
![[link]](http://www.judgmentofparis.com/mode/mode02.jpg){kind=link}
Amy - Mar 28, 2008 5:48:09 pm PDT #8090 of 10001
Because books.
Man, I loved Sassy. *Before* Jane left, it should go without saying.
Oh, YES.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2008 5:48:45 pm PDT #8091 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Budget Living sounds cool. Is it anything like Real Simple? I almost fell for that magazine.
Window box flowers/herb gardens for apartment living.
You can get that upside down tomato one. You know what else you should have? Infomercial/product of the week--you know the sort of product. Nothing normal like air fresheners, but instead something like Shamwow! where it's like they're selling you a whole new technology that you just can't continue to live without.
Jesse - Mar 28, 2008 5:49:34 pm PDT #8092 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Real Simple is infuriating. Budget Living was cool.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2008 5:50:51 pm PDT #8093 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Real Simple is infuriating.
Tell me more.
Jesse - Mar 28, 2008 5:53:51 pm PDT #8094 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, I've only looked at a couple issues, but it seems like all "buy this $300 cardboard box, and your crap will be transformed!" and "how to prepare for your trip to Nice this year: step one, fly first class."