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In hardboiled a few weeks ago we went around and shared our guilty pleasures. One of the girls said hers was reading the magazines that other people in her apartment complex have ordered and then putting them back on the shelf of mailboxes after she's read through them all. At the time I didn't think much of it. Until yesterday when I saw 2 issues of Vogue and 1 issue of Elle magazine sitting on my mailbox shelf as I sadly closed my mailbox after finding no mail inside. Isn't it so exciting when you open your mailbox and you actually receive something that is not: bills, useless catalogs that you don't know how you got signed up for, other people's mail that ended up in your mailbox or small notecards from Bank of America reminding you that you overdrafted a week ago? (As if that would be helpful now, a week later, when if you think about it, you could have overdrafted a bajillion times more during that time? Email would be more effective!) No, I am not bitter about my $35 overdraft fee on a $3 cup of coffee..but anyway. Yes so I was looking at these magazines and was seriously considering Elaine's guilty pleasure when I decided to resist reading other people's magazines that they paid to subscribe to and read in a timely manner. I think that's one thing that kind of sucks about moving so often (I've moved apartments every year since 2007) With each new apartment comes a new address, meaning a new address to forward all the things you grew accustomed to having mailed to you. One prime example being my weekly Safeway coupon books and my jcrew/Urban catalogs. To be honest I only really had these things mailed to me because it was nice receiving unnecessary things in the mail with my name on it but now I miss having Safeway coupons and being updated on what's on sale. My roomates used to make fun of me for this, calling me an ajoomah for looking through it -- but you really never know what you can find! When you really want/need something and you see it's on sale, why wouldn't you make that extra effort to go and get it when it's cheaper, right? Anyway! Point is, I didn't steal the other people's magazines. Although I did think about it....

what are your guilty pleasures?