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<description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m a magazineaholic. I collect magazines at an alarming rate. My husband is quite upset with me whenever I go visit my mother in &lt;st1:country-region w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Canada&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and come back with months&amp;rsquo; worth of my favorite magazines. To the point where I don&amp;rsquo;t always show him what I come back with. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Here, I subscribe to Cooking Pleasures, Fine Cooking, Gourmet, Yoga Journal, The Writer magazine, and at least 4 more. I also buy the TV Guide every week and some other magazines on a regular basis. That is on top of the two Canadian magazines that I could subscribe to here. Do I have time to read them all? Of course not! Do you? And when I finish one, it is so dog-eared I will never remember what I wanted to keep or send to people I thought would be interested in or come back to. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I have so many magazines, we haven&amp;rsquo;t even unpacked all the boxes yet because we know that&amp;rsquo;s what&amp;rsquo;s in them. But I will not let go. There&amp;rsquo;s important information in there! Someday I&amp;rsquo;ll write about some health topic and somewhere in my magazines there is valuable research. Someday I&amp;rsquo;ll want to make that special recipe that I saw years ago in one of my magazines&amp;hellip; In the meantime, they are stacking up, not in any specific order and certainly not by subject.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Which takes me to my point. We&amp;rsquo;re going to visit my mother for Christmas. I know she keeps magazines for me. She knows I miss home and this keeps me in touch somehow. Plus we're driving so it will be much easier to take them back. Flying costs me a fortune because my suitcase is so magazine heavy. So I ask you. Do I have a problem? Should my family stage an intervention? &lt;/p&gt;
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