What is wrong with magazines? I never use them but, it scares me when you say this...Though, I've noticed that you like to stir up mass worry and chaos, so perhaps I'm overreacting to the scare tactics you use....
Well, you'd need the interestlosshack available in the Director's Cut for them to even be worth messing with, and worrying about putting them ON anything is a pointless exerise, as sims don't look for a surface to put them on, they toss them on the floor.