Magazines.com Features Discounted Hobby Magazines for National Hobby Month

February 23, 2009

Franklin, Tenn (RushPRnews) February 23, 2009 -- There are many physical and mental benefits of hobbies including improving memory, managing stress and improving problem-solving skills. Internet retailer Magazines.com is encouraging people to take up a hobby by featuring discounted hobby magazines for National Hobby Month.

Researchers have determined strengthening brain function is achieved through repeated activities like hobbies. There is a world of hobbies that require different skill sets and thus result in different benefits such as increasing manual dexterity, slowing effects of aging process, promoting physical activity, encouraging social interaction and reducing stress.

In an effort to promote hobbies during National Hobby Month, Internet retailer Magazines.com is featuring hobby magazine subscriptions (http://www.magazines.com/category/hobbies) at significant discounts off the cover prices:

Collecting: Collectors' magazines are one of the most popular means to learn more about the hobby of collecting. Find articles on how to get started in the hobby of collecting including tips on seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining finds. Benefits: Promotes mental clarity.

Featured collecting magazine titles: Coins, Classic Toy Trains, Beckett Sports Card Monthly, Car Collector, Comic Buyer's Guide, Rock & Gem and Antiques and Fine Art

Outdoor Recreation: This hobby category includes everything from wildlife enthusiasts to adventure travel. Benefits: Spending time in nature exercise's all the senses plus promotes physical activity.

Featured outdoor recreation magazine titles: Bicycling, Adventure Kayak, Backpacker, Boating, Camping Life, Outdoor Life (http://www.magazines.com/product/outdoor-life) and Field & Stream

Sewing: There are many types of sewing from crocheting and knitting to quilting and cross-stitching. Benefits: Repeated use of hands and fingers promotes better manual dexterity.

Featured sewing magazine titles: Creative Knitting (http://www.magazines.com/product/creative-knitting), Crochet!, Threads, Sew Beautiful, Cross Stitch Gold, Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet, Country Sampler, McCall's Quilting

Scrapbooking: This hobby is now more popular than golf in American households according to Creating Keepsakes magazine research. Benefits: A fun way to relieve stress and promote social interaction.

Featured scrapbooking magazine titles: Creating Keepsakes, Scrapbooks Etc., Paper Crafts and Memory Maker magazine

About Magazines.com

Magazines.com is a privately-held company based in Franklin, Tenn. Major investors in Magazines.com are Anderson Media, one of the top U.S. wholesale distributors of magazines, music, books, and videos and Time Inc., publisher of People, Sports Illustrated and Time magazines.

With more than 1,900 titles available, Magazines.com offers people a fun, easy way to discover new magazines and helps them track subscriptions. Magazines.com is the leading independent agent selling subscriptions, serving customers online at Magazines.com (http://www.magazines.com/) and by telephone at 800-MAGAZINES (800-624-2946.)

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Marie Yarbrough
Magazines.com
http://www.Magazines.com
615-778-2134

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