Magazines in the mail

[fly girl]

Parents magazine started coming to my house out of the blue. Never subscribed, thought it was possibly sent from having a baby registry at Babies R Us. Well, my baby is now 8 years old and it's still coming.

And since then I have had other magazines arrive in my mailbox. Some last a few months, others a year or two. And in that really odd case 8 years!

Here are a few -- I can't think of them all.

Time
Better Homes and Gardens
People (I was bummed when that stopped)
Cooking Light
Newsweek
Allure

And today I just received Bon Apetite.

WTH?!?!?!

No one I know has signed me up for a subscription, so it must be some type of marketing ploy in hopes I enjoy the magazine so much I actually subscribe. But I find it weird, especially the ones that last more than 6 months.

Anyone else get this?

 

[lovemygoofy]

My husband receives Family Time (or something like ) magazine every month. Neither of us know where it comes from. Especially since we don't even have children.
But the magazine has some good coupons!

 

[fly girl]

My husband receives Family Time (or something like ) magazine every month. Neither of us know where it comes from. Especially since we don't even have children.
But the magazine has some good coupons!

Lol, well you're still a family!

I like Parents for the coupons. Once in a while they will include a P&G saver ... SCORE!

 

[manning]

Think of the positive side. Sears doesn't print a catalog anymore

 

[fly girl]

Think of the positive side. Sears doesn't print a catalog anymore

I used to love the JCP one as a kid. You used to flip it over for the home side. Wow, that just took me back.

 

[manning]

I used to love the JCP one as a kid. You used to flip it over for the home side. Wow, that just took me back.

I had something else in mind. Of course I reach back in history.

 

[MIGrandma]

It could be a gift subscription from someone you know, or even just a casual acquaintance. I get quite a few magazines in the mail, they are my weakness and when they send me offers for a ridiculously low subscription rate I rarely pass them up. Then, when you've subscribed they start sending re-subscribing notices with the magazines where you can renew your own subscription for a very low price AND give 1-year free gift subscriptions to one or two of your friends. I've only done that once, when I knew my DD would like one of the magazines. Most of the time I just toss them in the wastebasket but that could be why you've gotten some magazines you didn't subscribe to yourself.

 

[fly girl]

I had something else in mind. Of course I reach back in history.

I hear ya!

 

[fly girl]

It could be a gift subscription from someone you know, or even just a casual acquaintance. I get quite a few magazines in the mail, they are my weakness and when they send me offers for a ridiculously low subscription rate I rarely pass them up. Then, when you've subscribed they start sending re-subscribing notices with the magazines where you can renew your own subscription for a very low price AND give 1-year free gift subscriptions to one or two of your friends. I've only done that once, when I knew my DD would like one of the magazines. Most of the time I just toss them in the wastebasket but that could be why you've gotten some magazines you didn't subscribe to yourself.

Nope, not a gift subscription. I asked around.

It's random magazines too. Nobody would send me Allure. I'm too old.

 

[DisneyHardin]

We started getting Parents magazine too. We don't have any kids and it came addressed to DH. No Idea where it came from.

 

[tvguy]

Pretty old school marketing. Send a free sample, see if they will subscribe.

The one marketing campaign I don't get is the one by Similac sending free baby formula samples to men in their 80's.

 

[WorldWacky]

Parents magazine started coming to my house out of the blue. Never subscribed, thought it was possibly sent from having a baby registry at Babies R Us. Well, my baby is now 8 years old and it's still coming.

And since then I have had other magazines arrive in my mailbox. Some last a few months, others a year or two. And in that really odd case 8 years!

Here are a few -- I can't think of them all.

Time
Better Homes and Gardens
People (I was bummed when that stopped)
Cooking Light
Newsweek
Allure

And today I just received Bon Apetite.

WTH?!?!?!

No one I know has signed me up for a subscription, so it must be some type of marketing ploy in hopes I enjoy the magazine so much I actually subscribe. But I find it weird, especially the ones that last more than 6 months.

Anyone else get this?

I've been getting Ebony Magazine for about 5 years. I have no idea why. I don't order magazines at all. I flip through it, but articles about hair care and the like wouldn't necessarily work for my straight, blonde locks.

 

[pixiemomma]

I receive Seventeen (I'm 36), Vogue (loved this in my teens and early 20s, now meh) and Martha Stewart Living. I have no idea where they came from.

 

[fly girl]

Pretty old school marketing. Send a free sample, see if they will subscribe.

I get it if it were for a month or two, but YEARS?

 

[Mickeypooh99]

We recently started receiving Glamour. It's just DH and me and our two teen boys. We definitely don't need Glamour. I find it extremely annoying because we try very hard to be environmentally friendly. I can't stand just tossing that thick magazine in the recycle bin. It's such a waste. I don't know anyone who wants it. I tried cancelling online, and it asks me to make an account and give them my email. I don't want to give out my email.

 

[tvguy]

I get it if it were for a month or two, but YEARS?

Missed that part of the post. However there are magazines that are entirely advertising supported. They put together a mailing list and sell advertisers that demographic group, and deliver the magazines without subscription.
I get CHINA TODAY at work, as do several other co-workers, so I suspect that magazine has advertisers that want to reach people in the media.

 

[Cantw8]

What the hell? I don't get any free magazines unless I steal them from the neighbors

 

[phorsenuf]

What the hell? I don't get any free magazines unless I steal them from the neighbors

So that's where they have been going...

 

[2princesses3princes]

Some libraries will take them

 

[manning]

Did you enter the Clearing House contest? Some I know did and started getting them.