I joined four book clubs AGAIN! One Spirit, Book of the Month, The Literary Guild, and the History BC. Receiving books in the mail is like getting a crack fix for me! I'll even put them back in the box so I can take them out again after I smell them, feel them, check out how many chapters and pages they have. I have soooo many books to read and finish as it is but I still keep piling them up in storage. This all began back in high school in the late 80's. But back then I never paid for them. That included free music from Columbia House and the "other one", I can't recall the music club name. I received tons of free fashion magazines and cigarettes as a teenager! There were coffee makers, coffee, makeup from Cosmetique, and pasta (I think I joined some pasta club.) I hoarded all my freebies/cheap crap in my bedroom so my dad wouldnt find them. Like a dummy I would experiment late at night smoking the cigs without knowing how to inhale, sticking my head out of my bedroom window blowing out smoke. Fortunately it never became a habit. Maybe it was my asthma or the ocean breeze steps away from my house!
Since I lived at the beach every summer I had a friend that would come squat over at my house and she too would start ordering the "freebies". We would stay up till 6am drinking coffee, watching videos, smoking, tearing out pics from magazines, reading, and crank calling people. I remember crank calling a particular classmate of mine I was jealous of who was a late 80's, one hit wonder/mickey mouseclub muskateer. Boy, I was really enraged when I opened up one of my freebie magazines (Rolling Stone) to see her at George Michael's party with George Harrison's arm around her! But I was also elated that Rolling Stone misspelled her name. She eventually flatlined in the 90's turning to drugs and bulemia. She might be wanting to make another comeback but I don't think Columbia is interested anymore. I sort of feel sorry for her now. She still has a fanclub in Chile though. Soooooo, the only thing different now is I order my coffee from Hawaii~ Lion Coffee Kona gold. Order my books usually from Amazon and subscribe to SBing magazines.....and occasionally smoke flavored tobacco from a hookah.