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1. 
   mike_maines | May 18, 2007 04:04am | #1

   What they are offering online for a measly $20 is above and beyond what any other site offers.  It's better than JLC's $100 online subscription.  I have a pretty good collection of back issues but it's much easier to just search online, plus there's lots of other content too.

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   NCPhil | May 18, 2007 04:09am | #2

   So should I drop my magazine subscription?

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   mike_maines | May 18, 2007 04:33am | #5

   It depends.  Do you have a computer in your bathroom?

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   brownbagg | May 18, 2007 04:10am | #3

   but everybody else does get it for free, just not you.
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   JeffBuck | May 18, 2007 04:14am | #4

   I get paid.

    

   think it's $.04 or $.05 for each new sucker that signs up!

   coupons ...

    

   for lowes.

   Jeff

    

        Buck Construction

    Artistry In Carpentry

        Pittsburgh Pa

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   Sasquatch | May 18, 2007 04:58am | #6

   I guess you could say twenty bucks is not much.

   Twenty here, twenty there, --- it doesn't take too long to be a lot.

   I think I might subscribe for twenty a year - and not a cent more - if I had a fast connection.

   I don't have a fast connection. (video downloads are impractical, etc.)

   I could have a fast connection with digital phone, cable tv, and whatever that means before they start adding on other charges - taxes, surcharges, what-have-you.  It would only cost $100 per month! ($99)

   $99 per month is not much.

   They (the fast connection/digital phone/cell phone/cable/whatever people) don't really need me as a customer because it is such a great deal, the two or three mailings I received each month over the last few years notwithstanding.

   I could buy a new truck for about $500 per month.

   I could give all of my relatives a few bucks a month.

   I could give away all of my money.  It isn't much.

   Although I have subscribed to FHB for many years, I get to pay even more to access articles online. WOW!!

   Let's see...

   $20/yr for access,

   $?/yr for subscription to the mag,

   Also, electric, gas, water, trash, vehicle fuel and registration and insurance, home insurance, life insurance, tv, food for the family, medical insurance and care, pet fees, pet medical bills - I know I am forgetting a thing or two.

   No, $20 a year is not much.

   My recommendation?  Well, I can't say it here in a nice way.

    

    

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   DougU | May 18, 2007 05:03am | #7

   Twenty here, twenty there, --- it doesn't take too long to be a lot..................

   Do you have to put it that way, I feel so damn broke now!

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   Sasquatch | May 18, 2007 05:07am | #8

   You're not broke until respectable people stop tipping their hats to you as you walk down the street.

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   Luka | May 18, 2007 05:57am | #12

   Well if yer broke, then get yerself fixed...

   Fight fire with water.

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   brownbagg | May 18, 2007 05:14am | #9

   I could have a fast connection with digital phone, cable tv, and whatever that means before they start adding on other charges - taxes, surcharges, what-have-you. It would only cost $100 per month! ($99)I pay $149

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   Sasquatch | May 18, 2007 05:21am | #10

   I'm going to tell my wife that!  She thinks we should capitulate and get the bennies.

   I think we'll be ok with the house antenna, the slow internet connection, minimal phone service, Net10 for emergencies and long distance, regular gas and so on.

   Do you realize that you pay $1788.00 per year?

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   JDRHI | May 18, 2007 06:21am | #13

   I say capitualte, but use protection and avoid the Bennies.

   Kids are damned expensive nowadays.

   J. D. ReynoldsHome Improvements

    

    

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   Sasquatch | May 18, 2007 04:16pm | #15

   On a more serious note, I think $20 is a pretty good deal.

   I just have to draw the line.  Good deals, especially tool deals, are slowly dragging me back to the edge of credit card debt.

4. 
   Luka | May 18, 2007 05:57am | #11

   That depends.

   If I bought some cabinets from you...

   Should I expect you to come by every couple of years and refinish them for free ?

   Or maybe should I expect you to throw in a dining table for free ?

   The magazine and the website are totally different products.

   ---

   Fight fire with water.

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   andybuildz | May 18, 2007 06:56am | #14

   They have company cars too...want one of those for free too? Me too...lol. I'll settle for a new baseball cap...I'll even pay for it. Imagine that concept...paying for extras.

    

   "Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."
   Abbie Hoffman

   http://WWW.CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM                                 

    
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   xxPaulCPxx | May 18, 2007 07:21pm | #16

   Yes, it would be nice to be able to get online access the the actual issues you subscribe to.

   However, having decades worth of information available for a quick search is well worth the $20 to me.  Especially if you are doing something new, and want to check for tips and tricks or gotchas.

   Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA

   Also a CRX fanatic!

   Parenting has always been a mix of sage life advice and inexcusable laziness.

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   brownbagg | May 18, 2007 07:57pm | #17

   I just don't like the 20 for subscriber and 30 for non. I still buy the mag but at newsstand. why not make it 25 for everybody