Your old Reader's Digests

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Melissa posted a quote from an old RD mag. I won't tell on her how old it was. What is the oldest issue date of the Reader's Digest magazines in your house? Who will win this one?

-- Randal in Brazil (randal@onebox.com), March 07, 2002

Answers

Not me! I just write the quotes down and pass the magazines on to our little library! I actually don't get it now, since someone else started donating them.

I just don't have the extra money to subscribe to any magaizines right now. I do get Countryside,and Focus on the Family, which I make a small donation to...

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), March 07, 2002.


I just passed mine on, so I lose! I do still have one laying around here my mother gave me, I think it is Jan. 2000.

I am debating whether to renew my magazines too. I take Countryside, and Country Woman. I enjoy them, I just have to decide whether or not they are worth the money. I will probably renew, Country Woman always has a good crafts page, and homemade mixes.

I confess to not doing a lot of what I read in Countryside, but I enjoy reading about it, and then I have the option of deciding whether or not it is possible for me now or maybe in the future.

I do save all of the Countryside, and I was really upset - Lance tore a page out that he wanted and then threw the rest of one of them away last week! I let him know (gently!) that I was saving those!

-- Christine in OK (cljford@mmcable.com), March 07, 2002.


Randal------we bought out households for years------this last week I put in the dumpster some from the 60's & 70's that were stored at our warehouse/I tore out some ads out of some----but ya can't save everything---so I just closed my eyes & pitched!!!

-- Sonda in Ks. (sgbruce@birch.net), March 07, 2002.

How 'bout July 1953? And before any of you make wisecracks about my age, this one is older than I am. But I do have a habit for collecting old stuff.

-- Lenette in OR (kigervixen@webtv.net), March 08, 2002.

I recently bought at an auction a big box with a bunch of bound RD's in it for a whole dollar. Iwill have to check but i think that they start at 1938. I have had the MOST fun reading them and it has been a living history lesson for my kids.

Tana Mc

-- Tana Mc (mcfarm@totelcsi.net), March 08, 2002.



July 1937 issue. Price printed on the cover is .25 (by the way when did they remove the cent sign from the keyboard?) Opps! Telling my age, huh?

-- Eve (eowenall@cs.com), March 10, 2002.

I always remember the old ones being folded into Christmas trees....

-- GT (nospam@nospam.com), March 10, 2002.

I don't know if anyone out there can help me but I am trying to find an old Reader's Digest from the 1960's. It has a book section about a girl who dies of cancer. I think her name was Janice Babson. I seem to remember she was from Canada. I don't remember if the story was all in one issue or continued but I remember my grandmother letting me read the story as a young girl. I was deeply moved by the story and would love to see it again. I would appreciate it if anyone knows how to find it. Thank you. Beth Sloan

-- Beth Sloan (kbsloan@yahoo.com), July 31, 2002.

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