Art and I like to read the Star Advertiser newspaper every morning with his coffee (black) and my mocha breakfast. I know we can get a digital copy online, but we like to continue getting that hardcopy.
I read the Local/Daily Break & Business section. No, I didn't pay any attention to the Business stuff. The Local/Daily Break section has (Advice Columnist) Carolyn Hax, JUMBLE, Super Quiz, Crosswords and the comics.
Eventually, Art felt bad about hogging the Front page section because I'd finished my mocha and did the dishes while he was still reading that front page.
So he made a bit of a sacrifice and started to give me the Front pages first while he read the sports pages. I don't pay all that much attention to the Front page section because I'd already seen most of it online or in the evening TV news reports. I do like the editorial page though.
Anyway, before Art is even close to done with the Sports pages, I hand over the Front pages to him.
I do enjoy the Advice column to see if I agree or not and I do invariably agree with Carolyn Hax. I then move over to the comics and decide which ones to cut out for my 5 and 8 year old grandsons who now live in South Asia. Both can now read and love getting my envelopes full of the selected weekday comics and the multi page Sunday comics section which seems more geared to kids.
Well.... First, the Star Advertiser cut out the Saturday hard copy paper and required you to just read it online. Art's black coffee and my mocha just didn't taste the same without the hard copy morning newspaper.
Meanwhile, the price of the newspaper subscription went up.
I know newspapers are hurting so we want to support them.
What?!?! Aggravation!
Ah well... I guess you just have to adapt. Art now has control of the Sports AND the Local/Daily Break & Business and I get the Front pages first.
If they start combining them ALL into one section, it's going to make us wonder if it's worth it. Sigh...
But then there's his black coffee and my mocha to think about.
POSTSCRIPT 1:
OK, and here's a new one.
Last week, they delivered the Monday paper on Thursday!
Aggravation!
Yes, they sent the correct Thursday issue an hour later but by then Art was done with his black coffee and I was done with my mocha and we'd (sigh) read the digital copy on our phones anyway. 🙄
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POSTSCRIPT 2:
Oh my gosh! You are not going to believe this!
They've changed the format again!
Now the Front Page and Local is together and the Sports and my Daily Break with Carolyn Hax, Jumble, Comics, etc. are together.
OK, I can live with this. What the heck.
I can scan the Front pages and hand it over to Art quickly.
Then I can take my time with making those comic selections to mail to my grandsons and do the JUMBLE.
Do you suppose other couples who drink black coffee and mocha complained to the Star Advertiser? 🙄
Kay, we gave up on the daily newspaper a few years ago. It got too expensive and they kept changing it. We continued with the Sunday addition for a while, then that too changed and wasn't worth the effort or the money. We did enjoy reading pretty much the same parts you mentioned, but in the end... finally gave up on it. Now DH watches the news and sports on TV in the morning with his coffee... and I check on my emails and blogs with mine.
ReplyDeleteNewspapers are sadly nearly a thing of the past. Our local paper stopped printing any editions on Monday and on Wednesday and Friday, only print digital editions which are then largely rehashed in the following day's print editions. When they made that last change, I cancelled the print edition and not just get the digital only subscription and then print out the Crossword and Soduku to do later on in the day.
ReplyDeleteOur newspaper has probably been one section for at least 20 years now. In fact, most editions are just three sheets of paper folded up into the standard newspaper shape comprising of 6 pages. They fired the previous editor that lived here in town and now the editor is from Nashville and is editor of a dozen other small newspapers in the Midwest. As such, there are no longer editorials other than the occasional poorly conceived or largely ignored letter to the editor. I honestly only read it for the puzzles and the obituaries.
Out local paper went that way years ago and I haven't had a newspaper subscription for just about as long. There was a time that I wouldn't have been able to imagine starting the day without at least a quick look through the paper with my morning coffee. Well, at least I am not smudging a clean white blouse with news print before heading off to work!
ReplyDeleteWe get the daily paper here called The Valley News. It's only two sections 6 out of 7 days. Latest cost saving measure in the new year is to eliminate the Sunday edition which has had four sections. Earlier this year they stopped printing on holidays. The problem we have had is delivery. This area is crying out for workers including paper deliverers and getting up really early to drive through this area tossing papers onto driveways is not a very attractive job.
ReplyDeleteI grew up loving the newspaper but we gave up on getting one over 10 years ago. The last time I saw a copy of our local paper at a doctor's office, it was about 12 pages and cost $1.50. No thanks!
ReplyDeleteLin Floyd we gave up on newspapers long ago as they got smaller and now read the news on our computers!
ReplyDeleteour local papers have gone digital or stopped. We still get a hard copy of the Toronto Star but many we know don't anymore.
ReplyDeleteToo many things are changing at once. Although I suspect older people with longer memories have always felt that way. Yes, I empathize with you guys completely! These domestic rituals are more important than ever. Keep enjoying your coffee and your mocha! Best wishes to you and to mom. Aloha!
ReplyDeleteI also love to read the physical paper front to back. My neighbors who still have a subscription give me the papers.
ReplyDeleteSO nice to send the comics to your grandkids. My Mom sent me the OKC Sunday comics when I was in college and beyond for YEARS! The Sunday Oklahoman had 14-16 pages of color comics! She bought special smaller manila envelopes to mail them. Then, she skipped me and started sending them to my son when he was in college. One of those things that stopped after she died. Sigh. The Kansas City papers used to be 2 papers, then dwindled to one. Since I had no bird with a cage or puppy to train and worked full time, I wanted just the Saturday and Sunday papers. They wouldn't give me such a subscription. The advertisers decreased, so the newspaper businesses have dwindled. Our big glass-enclosed paper plant even closed. I see newspapers in stands at the drug store. We have a free regional/city newspaper that's themed as if it's a 1930s paper. Maybe there's such a paper around your neighborhood. Have fun sending the comics! Linda in Kansas
ReplyDelete14-16 Pages of comics?!?! Oh my gosh, Linda! My grandsons would be in heaven! I send the comics to them in a manila envelope too. My daughter-in-law sent me a video of my 4-year old grandson reading some of it. It is sad to see newspapers go out of business. We used to have two newspapers. The Star Bulletin and the Honolulu Advertiser. They combined to become the Star Advertiser.
DeleteYou didn't post the cost of the paper, but here our city paper, delivered 7 days a week to our doorstep, would be $1000 a year. Yes, that much. An electronic version, seven days a week, is $30 a month, or $360 a year. I like the electronic version as Terry and I can read the same pages at the same time, and I don't have to stop delivery when we will be gone.
ReplyDelete$1,000?!? I'm pretty sure it's not that much for us which includes the electronic version and the 6 day hard copy. OK, maybe I should stop complaining. We can also negotiate our price increases if you call them to complain.
DeleteKay, this is going to upset you. I don't take the newspaper because the issues just pile up unread and then once in a blue moon, I quickly go through the pile and cut out Super Sudoku on Sundays (with the answer page) and occasionally an article catches my attention and I cut it out. I was offered a year long subscription for $49 - for the entire year! After it the year was up, I did not renew at the higher rates and I really didn't need future piles of issues. A few months later I get emails and snail mail offers for a full year of daily or certain days, or just Sundays for the same price - $50 PLUS a $25 gift card to my choice of store. I suppose their readership is going down and thus their advertising revenue is following.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I will take their deal the next time they offer it because now I can't find my pile of Super Sudoku.
Kay of Musings: OMG! OMG! What??? That’s totally incredible! Wait till I tell my tai chi friends.
DeleteWe still have the daily and Sunday Seattle Times delivered to our paper box. Each morning I walk out to the street on our long driveway, listen for bird songs, and experience the weather, as well as get my legs moving. In the morning Tom scans the paper but has mostly read about everything on line on his phone, which he continues to do throughout the day. I read the paper at lunch, when, ever since I retired, I allow myself a full lunch HOUR, which seemed like a luxury after so many years of teaching.
ReplyDeleteI scan the main section for news and look for articles I want to know more about in depth, local, national or international. Then I glance at the sports page as I turn to the back where the comics, puzzles, and advice columns are. I don't even look at the comics, but I do read some of the advice column and I work the Jumble. Oh, and that's when I have my coffee too, with about a third microwaved milk, sort of a latte, and my chocolate. :-)
I subscribed to the paper as they offered a good deal, but after the deal was over it was at much higher rates. And after a while realized that I actually prefer the online version. I don't have to physically deal with the straightening it out, making it nice to be able to read. The only subscription I kept was the Sunday paper, because morbidly I read the obituaries now. Because this Sunday's Obits are so large it makes it hard to read electronically. But since I changed it I still get delivery. I just wonder if they just have extra papers or he didn't get the message I changed the subscription or what. My neighbor loves the crosswords so I saved those all up for her. I also like midweek a lot due to the ads. BB
ReplyDeleteWe get the newspaper every day-physically on Sunday and virtually the rest of the week. I agree that it just keeps getting smaller and smaller.
ReplyDeleteIt's been a long time since I've received a paper newspaper. I do read several online articles, follow the news mostly that way too. I stopped the local newspaper here because it shrunk to almost nothing and was costing $36/month for it. I do subscribe to almost a dozen different "papers."
ReplyDeleteNews papers have gone ay down hill. Ours is down to s one section very thin section. I don't buy it anymore as it's not worth it.
ReplyDeleteIt's a never-ending cycle. They cut back due to finances and then fewer people subscribe and . . . so on.
ReplyDeleteThe Akron Beacon Journal costs too much for the paper version and now the on line version is too exorbitant for its measly content.
ReplyDeleteI got the paper for many years and miss it. However, it became too expensive and the carriers stopped delivering it reliably.
ReplyDeletelaughing. one of our local papers has disappeared entirely. but we still have two delivered daily. oterwise it might be time foe a divorce,
ReplyDeleteIt seems like the whole country's news paper business will be coming to an end some day soon. Here, our paper now comes through the post office. No deliveries on Federal holidays and of course Sunday paper is now combined with Saturday delivered on Saturday. I like to read hard copies too. Writings on the wall.
ReplyDeleteBonny ogg
Like many who commented above, we took the daily paper for many years. We stopped and took only the Sunday edition. . . for several more years. We moved in the early 2000's, so we stopped getting a hard copy paper altogether. Whenever I missed it, I would purchase one at the Corner Store. Then, along comes computers, the internet, etc., and I (we) forgot all about hard copy newspapers.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this today, it’s a great read. Wishing you well, dear friend. Have a blessed Week.
I remember newspapers. Now we read them online. It is not the same.
ReplyDeleteI buy one paper from Toronto, which I grew up with and still has quality.
ReplyDeleteI used to buy a local paper but stopped over a year ago. The quality and editorial slant had gone downhill, badly.