Do you provide a newspaper or papers for your guests? Magazines?
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Do you provide a newspaper or papers for your guests? Magazines?
Posted on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 7:41am
Our paper is not much. We tried the Sunday paper out of DC but that always was delivered too late for the guests to enjoy.
We have two weekly free papers that list all to do and news and put them out along with other 'things to do" mags.
Riki
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lol! our newspaper is virtually non existant. not much goes on here. we are a 1 sq mile village with 1200 residents. there is a weekly county paper and we do provide a variety of magazines.
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Big city daily, small nearby city daily and our local weekly plus lots of magazines for both men and women. I am a newspaper junkie myself.
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Local paper, magazines and books.
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Wendy
"now retired from the BB business"
Our first few years we subscribed to the big city paper and many magazines. Since we're rural, we get only a weekly local paper. After a few years, the cost of the paper (we were paying for 4 papers daily since breakfast is delivered to their rooms) kept rising and also dealing with all the papers just got too much. We also used to subscribe to several magazine, some paid for, some delivered free.
We have always recycled and composted. We've actually gotten to the point where we were able to stop trash pick-up about 7 years ago. We have 1 large black trash bag per month in the busy season that we take to the dump. We're now a certified "green" lodging and I stopped all deliveries except for one Sunday big city paper and the once weekly local. We keep the old magazines in all the rooms since they're still filled with area information, recipes, etc. I've only had 1 guest say over the last several years make a comment on the old magaines. Because we also live in an area where there is a lot of clear cutting, morally, I feel the need to cut back on excessive paper products. That's just the way we've decided to do business and I have no moral judgements on how others deal with it.
I have about 1 bag per week - even with the business, less than the 3 person family next door. We composr and recycle plastic, cans, and newspaper. There is no market for our glass so that is not recycled HOWEVER when I cook, I use the egg whites and toss the yolks and those yolks go into one of the glass jars we emptied. This keeps my trash liner clean so I can dump it into the bag for the curb a couple times before IT has to hit the street.
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Breakfast Diva wrote -
We have 1 large black trash bag per month in the busy season that we take to the dump.
WOW!!! Wish I could get down to 1 large rolling garbage bin a WEEK! My guests leave a lot of trash!
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Ours do, too. But we recycle most of it. We, too, got rid of the garbage service and are down to 2 BIG cans/month in season.
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Ours do too, especially in the busy season. We are rural, so we still have the ability to burn paper (not newspapers or mags). That helps a lot. Since the beginning of the year, our state was one of the first to have return deposit on water bottles. We're fortunate to have a good recycling program in our larger (4500 people) 1/2 hour away.
It really takes a committment to do all this recycling and composting, but worth it in the long run. Especially when I hear how expensive it is to have garbage pick up in our rural area!
We can redeem all 'drink' containers except milk and that helps quite a bit. The first time Gomez went to the bottle redemption he was embarrassed by all the alcohol bottles and explained he owned a B&B and these were all from guests! I think he gets around $10/month doing the redemption.
We can't burn anything here, but I can take the mags to the library where they have a recycle mag bin. I get some fun mags from there. We use the plastic sleeves the newspapers come in for pooper scooper bags.
We used to carry the "local paper," population 500,000, but no one read it. When we stopped, we had 2-3 people ask about it. We carry Rachael Ray and Reader's Digest, along with some Martha Stewart and mish mash, but they rarely get read. I think it was Ladies' Home Journal or Better Homes and Gardens that lead the most popular magazines either in the mail or newstands.
I enjoy reading the local paper when on vacation! I think it's fun to see what's going on in a different city, I never read OUR papers....same old same old stuff! 
Our local (town) paper never gets read; well let me rephrase, it gets picked up and plopped back down. Neighboring big city paper was read by about 1 in 10 to 15 guests so for that I stopped subscribing. Oh, and for another reason, the few that do read brought it to the breakfast table...
Magazines - lots. Some regional too which are the most commonly read.
Yes, and yes. I also pick up USA Today for biz guests. With staggered breakfast times, reading the newspaper gives them something to do if they really don't want to chat in the morning. 
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We have a couple of the usual mag. subs., plus the newspaper from the largest city nearby (80,000 pop.).
We're also halfway between two major cities, so I always look to see where the guests are from. If they are close to one of those, we pick that up as well.
We always have the daily paper available, plus our weekly local paper and our neighboring town paper (big tourist destination). We also have numerous magazines (many free) and local books on the history of our area. These are very popular with the guests.
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Dee C.
I have 4 rooms and I don't always know when guests have left their rooms for the day so I can fluff. I know some of you use do not disturb signs, etc., but do people really remember to put them out?
I do get a weekly newspaper in the mail from a city close by (a great city that brings even more draw to the area) anyway they list things to do for the weekend. You bet I have that out so all could see. A great resource for blogging too! I also get our state conservation magazine and also one for kids (these are free). We have the perfect place for them.
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Carolyn
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We get the daily newspaper from our County seat (Big City). We have goten the dauly from the City to the north 0 but no one read it and although DH likes it better, there is little news from OUR county so we dropped it. We also get the local weekly and they are available to guests. There are magazines in each guestroom - most of which just showed up in the mailbox. We also provide a copy of the State Tourism magazine in each guestroom and we do tell the guests that "all printed materials - magazines & books - on the second floor are there to be "stolen" and they DO NOT come back!"
An innmate from the forum shared with me about a guest who absolutely loves their local town paper. I am always somewhat embarrassed about ours, esp when they make a big ado about nothing. I am trying to have it available to guests more often.
Do you like to read a local paper when out and about? Not the tourism rag or any of the entertainment weekly mags.
Love to read local papers!! One of our favorites was a police log about a "rabbit making trouble"!!
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Gomez LOVES the local paper when we're traveling. Think about it this way- guests WANT to know what's important to the locals, or, if they're cynical, they want to snicker (and then wish that a dog digging up the flowers around the town green was all that happened in their neck of the woods!)
We probably have 10 different magazines (at least). We're also magazine junkies. I think I pay for 6-7 and the rest come free. Don't know whose mailing list I got on but most of what shows up is perfect.
daily Washington Post, Sunday Post and New York Times, assorted mags like Discover, MS Living, Smithsonian, Blue Ridge County, etc. - can you tell we are serious newspaper/mag junkies ourselves?
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Jeanne
Local daily paper, Backyard Living and Birds & Blooms Magazine, plus some historically natured magazines/papers. Wish we could get a big paper delivered here but no dice.
Not individual papers, but we do have the big local paper. All kinds of magazines. Some just start coming in the mail for free.