Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A budget jet-set society?
First of all, I find it pretty amazing how this magazine apparently changed reviewer DLS's life, saving him/her/it a 'fortune in living expenses.' Particularly since the first issue doesn't come out until October and that review was posted in August. That must have been one heck of a preview issue.Secondly, do we really need another magazine like Real Simple, telling us how to simplify our lives by spending money? I mean, if you really want to simplify your life and live better while spending less, you should either stop subscribing to magazines altogether or subscribe to one like Ready Made and build things yourself instead of buying 'everything money can, and should, buy.'
Rating:  - Entertaining but not very useful
I agree with the reviewer who said this is more a magazine about how to spend money than how to budget it. While I found some of their problem-solving strategies interesting in an anthropological sort of way, the problems themselves--how to afford that five-thousand-dollar dress, for example--were simply not related to the lives of anyone I know. It's not a New York thing; it's a rich people thing.Basically it's just another magazine trying to sell you stuff that's cute--but when I want to buy cute stuff, I look at the ads in the back of BUST.
Rating:  - Some really good ideas, but...
This magazine's inaugural issue caught my eye while grocery shopping. Took it home, read it cover-to-cover (so did my husband), and liked much of it. Some of it is definitely not budget and seems almost like it belongs in "Lucky" (a magazine about shopping for the serious shopaholic) instead. I am sure it will get better over time as they work out the direction more. I think it's worth the subscription, though it has not yet "saved me thousands" ;-}!!!
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