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Have any of you heard of or read the "Real Simple" magazine? It's one of those "home living" magazines that give you all sorts of practical domestic advice (even for a "beginner" like me) and feature some good recipes. For those who know me well, you might remember me getting all excited about this magazine. I even considered getting a subscription for for it because I kept buying it every month. However, over time, I saw that a huge chunk of the magazine is devoted to advertising and a lot of the "tips" were to buy some sort of expensive product. On top of that, it's a rather expensive magazine, so I stopped buying it. I liked the recipes the best but I figured that if it was just the recipes I wanted, that I should go for a magazine like Everyday with Rachel Ray instead. However, every month, the very attractive and beautiful cover of the latest issue of "Real Simple" lures me and I have to will myself not to buy it.

Well, I found my "support group" for this. Last night I was on Amazon trying to find the Rachel Ray magazine (a MUCH better magazine) that I want a subscription of so I could send the link to my sisters. Among the other related magazines that were "recommended" to me, I saw a link for the "Real Simple" magazine. It then occurred to me that I should read the Customer Reviews to see how other people rated the magazine. Well, sure enough, the majority of the reviews expressed the exact same opinion as me. Strangely enough though, a large portion of the reviews gave the magazine 5 stars, but for the most part, the reviews gave the magazine only one star. However, even those "in between" reviews were not every favorable. Now, I don't usually write customer reviews or give ratings, but I just had to do it for this one!