Renewing Magazine Subscriptions

I have been at my computer sorting out which journals I need to renew.  It's not all that simple since the terms vary, i.e., longer terms and the charge is lower, and, for that matter, sometimes the renewal comes right on the heels of the initial subscription, and then there is the new practice of persistent automatic renewal with the proviso of cancellation if the subscriber happens to think of it. these various systems work to the advantage of the magazine: they can keep an eye on their profits down the road, but I am not sure that they are good with all kinds of subscribers, I mean those of my coevals who take on a slew of magazine subscriptions.  Alongside the New York Review, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, et aI I very much like having the great and good of England, the GuardianWeekly, The TLS, The Lrb, the Economist, Prospect Magazine, but there is a nervous suspicion growing in my gut that before too long my brain will have pretty much relinquished control of my purchases long term.  If I were signed up for automatic renewal, oh, the mess.  As it is, ever other Tuesday our cleaning woman arrives with the expectation that I will have "tidied" the area of my bedroom which constitutes my reading corner.  This entails my sorting through the reading materials and throwing out old stuff read more than once.  You need a clear mind for this and I am just now approaching the boundary line.  In fact I sense a definite relief when I do not renew a subscription; I suppose it's like an addict finally able to pout the pills down the toilet what you used to see in dramas about drugs.