The Detroit Sunday Free Press was huge.
My Dad didn’t want anyone touching the paper until he had read it first. Problem was, he started late on most Sundays, going to the 11;am Mass. Then, once he returned, he like to make his own late breakfast, followed by eating it.
By then, it was well after 1pm! I finally figured out, as long as I kept the second section of State and Local News, and the fourth section of Sports News untouched, he was fine.
I could get my new fix done with by 10am.
We got the Sunday Free Press too along with the Adrian Daily Telegram and the Jackson Citizen Patriot.
Your solution sounds a lot like mine, as long as the paper was refolded like new the old man didn’t mind, the Sunday funnies spread out on the living room floor with a mug of cocoa were a high light of my grade schooler’s week.
Postage rates were low too before the postal strike of 1970 so we got lots of magazines and book club offers at low, low intro rates.
As soon as the subscription rate went up on one it was switch to another, Life followed Look, Time became Newsweek, Sports Afield, Field & Stream, Red Book, McCall’s, etc. in an endless rotation and every couple of weeks the build up would go over to the local nursing home Mom worked at or the customer waiting area of the pharmacy Dad worked at, next to the tube tester, lol.