Budget Finds - Media Edition

Most of our readers out there know that I recently moved to Northern California. I have a little place with my live-in fiance, B. B is witty, fun, and always up for adventure, but I'm a complicated gal. Even he can't keep me entertained 24/7.

I should mention another thing - B doesn't watch tv.

Call it the dark ages, call it 1920s, but he just doesn't. And with ABC running all my shows online, we really can't justify the high cable bill every month. Despite my proclamations to B that I am perfectly content without visual media at home, I crave it. I need it. I yearn to know about the pretty tweed pencil skirt that Jennifer Aniston is coveting. I need to mock shoes that are the latest momentary fad that is anything but fab.

Lucky for me, I have Christian Siriano-fierce friends that always dish the latest, hottest thing. A few month ago, Angeline, told me about Maghound.
(photo courtesy of maghound.com)

Subscribers choose from packages of three or more magazine titles delivered to your home, for a discounted from an ordinary subscription.

No stranger to the print business, Time, Inc. is also experimenting with its own version of personalize news media called Mine.
(photo courtesy of www.timecmg.com)

It combines a reader's 5 selections from 8 choices into a single binded magazine. (First issue is free!)

(photo courtesy of Sidedown.org)

And to boot, Lexus has come up with an interesting advertising campaign.

What a concept! I'm in love all over again.