Are all magazines a waste of paper?

I have spent more than two weeks now at my mother-in-law's waiting for our stuff to arrive from Edmonton. We are currently moving from Alberta to Ontario, well not really, there is not much moving right now or I would not be so damn bored. The moving company has turned out to be very incompetent despite the fact that we could find lots of "10 out of 10"- type reviews for them. I give them 1 out of 10 if they manage to actually deliver our stuff before the end of the year. Receiving lots of quotes from moving companies was interesting too. One touted that they only used trucks, no trains. Weird, I thought immediately. Why do they think that customers may prefer that? Personally I think my stuff was better off in a container on rails instead of in a truck. Imagine how many truckloads of belongings you could move on a single train, cutting down emissions too. Next time I require a moving quote I should ask if my stuff can be transported by rail. 


Back to me spending lots of days unsure of what to do. I miss my bike, the bike trailer, my household, ... I miss getting up in the morning having in my mind things that I want to get accomplished. So I took to skimming through the towers of glossy magazine pages in the house. They are called Chatelaine, Best Health, Reader's Digest, Canadian Geographic, Our Canada, Opera News ...  The latter 3-4 are pretty okay but the first ones to me are definitely a waste of paper. Every second page is advertisement. Sometimes booklets are inserted and the magazine then comes in a plastic wrap to prevent loss of the inserts. The articles are basically promoting consumerism, talking about the must-have fashion items, the must-have cosmetics, the must-have nutrional supplements ... go get them, it is the only way to stay healthy and beautiful. Once in a while there is an article on how to save money advising you to avoid big brandnames but, besides the brandname advertisements, a few pages later the recipe sections suggest to use Robin Hood flour, Heinz Ketchup, Kraft mayonnaise etc. I prefer forests alive over all those beauty, fitness and gossip magazines, that tell us lots of lies any way.

The Canadian Geographic should use recycled paper, those grey pages without gloss so it's obvious. In the Our Canada magazine an article started off pointing out that a country as vast as Canada is perfect for road trips.  Really? I don't see that connection.  For me, because it is so big I hate going on road trips. You drive for days and don't get anywhere. A train at 300 km/h would be my choice if it existed.