Unsubscribing
Dec. 8th, 2009 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bex77Does anyone still get The Boston Globe delivered every day?
I'm trying to talk myself into ending my subscription to home delivery of the "dead trees" version of The Boston Globe, or perhaps switching to Sunday only. Switching would save me $35 a month, and stopping would save $49 per month, and I wouldn't be lugging a huge pile of paper (that I haven't read) to the recycling bin every week. I might keep the Sunday paper for the grocery coupons, which would more than offset the cost of the papers. And I can read anything I want online.
But I do want there to be a local liberal newspaper in some form. And I want to see what gets printed about my theater projects about 4 times a year...and I like the idea of knowing what was on "the front page." But I am almost to the point where it is not worth nearly $50 a month for that.
Did you stop long ago? Should I drop it?
I'm trying to talk myself into ending my subscription to home delivery of the "dead trees" version of The Boston Globe, or perhaps switching to Sunday only. Switching would save me $35 a month, and stopping would save $49 per month, and I wouldn't be lugging a huge pile of paper (that I haven't read) to the recycling bin every week. I might keep the Sunday paper for the grocery coupons, which would more than offset the cost of the papers. And I can read anything I want online.
But I do want there to be a local liberal newspaper in some form. And I want to see what gets printed about my theater projects about 4 times a year...and I like the idea of knowing what was on "the front page." But I am almost to the point where it is not worth nearly $50 a month for that.
Did you stop long ago? Should I drop it?
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Date: 2009-12-09 02:21 am (UTC)I'm thinking about dropping it again, however, at the moment. Many weeks I literally read *nothing* but the comics, and I almost never get beyond the Globe Magazine and the Parade. Living with J, it was worth having just for sharing the Sunday crossword (not to mention the comics), but now I really haven't touched the crossword in weeks... and it happens that I have many MANY back issues of just the crosswords stored up, enough to keep me going for a year even if I pick it up again regularly. So that's me.
(Besides, they've started sending along a Special Bonus Dead-Tree Advertising Supplement on *Saturdays*, which is worse than useless and really a point in favor of cancelling altogether as far as I'm concerned.)