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villagegirl

I knew several crazed people in my old congregation who had literally stacks of magazines from the ceiling to the floor, piles of them, not just one pile, like one of those Hoarding TV shows. One woman had piled up magazines in towering stacks all over her living room, so that there was only a narrow passage to walk between the piles of Watchtowers and Awakes, seriously it was scary.

Glander

I recall many publishers who ordered as many as 10 copies of the WT and Awake every issue, @ 2 issues each per month, that is about 40 mags.

Remember, they paid the WT Society cash up front . there was no way these people were selling, oops, I mean, "placing", that many mags per month.

Bottom line, once the WT printed up this tripe, and shipped it, it was cash.

I am sure a lot of those here recall the once a month reminders that our lit bill to Brooklyn was due and we needed to cough up.

What a racket.

moshe

In 1936 the first Washateria opened in Texas-

it wasn't long before JWs decided this was a good place to preach the good news of the new system, where your clothes will never wear out or need washing at the creek bank on a flat rock-

Terry

I knew one older sister who gave out Watchtower and Awake! magazines to little children who rang her doorbell on Halloween.

She thought it was the best idea ever!

The idea got around in our Kingdom Hall and all these glad faces beamed at the genius of it all.

I remember at the time thinking it was cruel to little kids and a dandy way to get your house egged and trees "papered".

When I was a Pioneer there was one month when the going got rough and my magazine quota just wasn't nearly reached at all. I

decided I'd go around to different medical and dental clinics and leave the so-called "literature" (who came up with that word?) in the waiting

rooms because--let's face it--that is the place horrible magazines go to die!

Every single one of the clinics I went to was gorged with WT and Awake! Somebody got there ahead of me.

So, now what???

There use to be something, children, called a Telephone Booth. You won't know what that is because it makes no sense to anybody today.

But, I drove around to all the Telephone Booths around town and left magazines in them!!

Finally, I made my quota. Yippeee.

At the service meeting it was announced we shouldn't be leaving magazines in medical and dental clinics because of the calls COMPLAINING about it from doctors!! Well, I didn't feel so bad after that. Nobody said anything about phone booths--so, no problem!

I'm sure my phone booth mags probably saved a great many souls. NOT!!

moshe

Terry, phone booths are gone, but there is a good alternative available for old WT magazines-- and you can place 20+ magazines at one time!

Glander

Moshe - great idea. Very "Green" because the paper can actually be re-used!

finally awake

when I was in, I was very reluctant to discard extra magazines unless they were damaged in some way. After spending several months in my service bag, some would be a little dog eared and rumpled, and I would trow those away. But pristine copies lived a long and boring life on my bookshelf, until I finally broke free from the borg. Then every last bit of literature eventually found its way to the garbage can.

smiddy

I used to leave older copies at the not at homes and later do return visits on them to see if I could stir up some interest ,I didn`t get much interest but at least I got rid of the older magazines.

smiddy

Balaamsass

I remeber one couple who went on LONG road trips and left magazines at EVERY rest stop....and counted the magazines AND entire time. LOL From state...to ...state...

transhuman68

We used to take the old magazines when we were rural witnessing and put them under the doors of farmhouses if no-one was home. But all those farmhouses had wood-burning stoves and wood heaters, so I guess those magazines were put to an appropriate use...

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