Goodbye Budget Living

["Budget Living", magazine]

Looks like one of my favourite magazines, Budget Living, has folded.



This is quite sad as they were a great source of cheap yet stylish gifts, fun party ideas, and chic yet affordable places to see and stay. I think BL was the first place I read about the hip & trendy "Farmer's Daughter Motel in LA (which is mentioned in this month's Sunset).

Budget Living seemed to be doing quite well, often stories from the magazine were later featured in the San Jose Mercury News, but maybe this didn't help the bottom line as much as one might think. After the founding editor Sarah Gray Miller left content went a little too much toward women's clothing for my taste (MediaWeek called it a 'Women's lifestyle monthly' so perhaps this makes sense) but then seemed to settle back into the old vibe, but I guess in the end the numbers just didn't add up.

Budget Living was 4 years old and leaves no survivors. (But had a
heck of a wake as seen on Gawker.)