Sunset Magazine Sucks

Okay, I admit it.  I used to read Sunset.  Alright, alright... I'll come clean.  I was a subscriber.  I know, shame on me.  I came clean.  I gave up the bad habit.  Forgive me, already.

There was a time in which I thought Sunset Mag (http://www.sunset.com/) was the best.  I would swoon over the pages of pretty day trips, forgotten beaches, quaint hide-aways, the garden greats, succulent frames and design on the cheap.

Then I realized I'd been bamboozled. 

They pulled the cashmere over my eyes.  The bastards!

I really started "reading" Sunset Ragazine during the Great Recession; you know, paying attention to the details.  $400 succulent frame, are you kidding?  $650 for a weekend away?  Designers who spend $1000 on a "garden makeover on the cheap"???  They had me reading this junk for years and I was finally onto them.  I was junkin' after all, and our pockets were nearly empty.  I couldn't afford their crap.

So a few weeks ago, while sitting idly by at physical therapy, I pick up a Sunset to skim.  I hit page 51 of the June 2012 and about spit my coffee across the waiting room.  In their Pop Up Backyard they tossed out the very chairs I had just picked up the previous weekend at a yard sale for $10 for the set, bought some crappy plastic Ikea wanna be chairs for untold riches and were set, some $500 later to have a garden party.  A $500 remodel for a garden party????  Are you kidding me??

I had picked up the exact same chairs the week prior, rattle canned them flat rust, plopped on some $0.50 red and white pillows to match the rest of the outside dining room and viola!  $15 garden party makeover.

Sunset Magazine Sucks.  Enough said.