Newspaper and Magazine Overload

In a way, I guess my ideal job would be working in a newsagent's (or is it newsagents?!). Then I could sit down and read magazines and newspapers all day long, to my heart's content.

I think I have probably mentioned somewhere on this blog that I am ever so slightly addicted to the printed medium - newspapers and magazines being particularly alluring. This has been a massive bone of contention between my husband and me. Unfortunately, I have a very bad habit of letting the publications build up, in a big pile and then I feel overwhelmed and keep thinking that I will go through them 'later'.

Ah, later! I think it's something that fellow fat-fighting chums will really relate to - even if the addiction to magazines, et al, seems somewhat strange.

Anyway, anyway, apart from letting the papers stockpile, I also had boxes of cuttings that I somehow wanted to use - either for the blog or for one of the novels I never quite finished. Do you see a pattern emerging? I think so!

Porkchop calls my home, "House of Paper" and I think that tells you all you need to know.

There has been deadline after deadline with the papers and now, there really is no get out of jail card left. The cuttings must be either filed away or thrown away by... tomorrow!

So, this is what I should be aiming for...

Anyway, in the meantime, I have found a few gems, which I will share! I don't know whether they will help any of us but hey... at least I have committed them to somewhere other than the recycling pile!

PS and yes, before you ask, the cuttings came with us to Devon!

Comments

[Village Postmaster]

'In a way, I guess my ideal job would be working in a newsagent's (or is it newsagents?!). Then I could sit down and read magazines and newspapers all day long, to my heart's content. I think I have probably...'

I run a newsagent's and I think that I would say that it is a great way to make a living, but sitting down and reading the stock just never happens. We fill our day with customers, deliveries, making up orders, keeping the place clean, doing the paperwork and more besides.

Keep dreaming though.

Steve