New print addiction...recovery needed...

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My first day without the newspaper...I have to admit I was relieved yesterday to discover that the carrier hadn't read his/her list, and my paper was, as ever, wedged under the tire of my van in the driveway. But..it was a Monday paper, and we all know how sad a paper that is...all the good stuff in the Sunday Insight...Monday's paper is an afterthought.

To be honest...I'm not going cold turkey, I still will get Sunday...because the Statesman called and offered to deliver it for the same 1.50 it would cost at the corner store...at least for a month anyway. Tapering off so to speak...

I would like a Wed/Sat/Sunday subscription, but it's a no go at the Statesman, altho the Corpus Christi Caller Times seems to be able to pull it off. The Caller has lost a few subscribers as well...my friends there, a whole neighborhood's worth! dumped the Caller as of this week because the Caller quit carrying the TV Guide! So...here are at least 8 households of which I am aware who have always had a newspaper on the lawn ( or in my case the last 5 years...under the car..) for decades...and now no. At Glenda's home, the one her parents bought all those years ago, the paper had been delivered for 53 years...and no more. I'm a short timer...this stint was only about 24 years.

I truly will miss it...tried to read the Statesman online this morning to discover YESTERDAY's articles on it! Yesterday's editorials, letters to the editor...yesterday's news. Now...will I keep writing letters to the editor..? or just scream in my blogs?

Have another Navy mom joining me in fair words..plain talk blog..

Comments

HRH0308 said…
I admit it - I am a newspaper addict. I could save cash by not getting it damn it's hard to give up on cheap news print!
February 17, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Karen Webb said…
and it's hard to kick...I pick up the coffee cup, the tea cup and I step to the breakfast bar and NOTHING is there to read! It's like having blank cereal boxes, it's that much of a habit!

How does one eat a sandwich without a newspaper?
February 19, 2009 at 3:48 PM
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