Magazines

The magazines in Have I Got News For You always give us a laugh, you can't quite believe that some of them are real! things like Cement Today or Moth Review.

Woman's Weekly used to have good recipes. They still do at Xmas.

Oh yes, some of those sound sooo boring...but I suppose they're industry-related.

You've reminded me, roses that we used to buy Private Eye regularly, but it seemed to go off a bit once Gordon Brown was booted out of office...

You've just reminded me, roses. I am a member of Butterfly Conservation, and have just received my copy of Butterfly. More colourful than Moth Review, I assume. I also get Beamish magazine every quarter, as I am a member there.

A work colleague with whom I spent many an hour at Exeter St Davids Station catching the 9.57 to Paddington, would often buy a glossy mag to look at on the journey back.

My overall impression of the type she chose was and was waffling about was "celebs" (some of which I wouldn't know, although reading the tempters on the cover, I can see why some might be drawn in.

Then there are the articles about clothes, which seemed to be either unwearable or unaffordable.

I don't buy any of the Glossies. I get one magazine/ newsletter of Geological interest. I just don't see why anyone buys celebrity magazines.
We do have a subscription to Radio Times which makes us sound ancient.

Ooooohhh, Jacky, I loved Family Circle. Wasn't there another one very similar and I love Home and Freezer Digest ( I think it was called)!

I don't read the women's or needlecraft magazines any more as I think I've reached the stage where I really have read all the features at least twice before and slebs bore me. My DDiL found a copy of a 1950s Woman's Own Yearbook the other day, hardcover, absolutely fascinating! We subscribe to various current affairs magazines and Radio Times. We've stuck with Private Eye, Ana, though I tend to agree with you.

I never buy magazines the only one I read is Readers Digest which my neighbour puts through the letter box when he is finished with it.
Hate the celeb types and others just repeat what's gone a million times before.

I used to buy magazines from time to time, I have to confess I find them a complete waste of money now, I'd rather buy a book. I enjoy leafing through them at the hairdressers where I'm going tomorrow, but when doing so there it reinforces my opinion that they are insubstantial with few interesting articles and loads of advertisements. As for recipes which they can be a good source for, it's easy to access these from websites such as BBC's Good Food.

Further to your post Lilygran, I do agree magazines from way back are probably far more interesting.

I don't buy magazines but download them free from the Essex libraries website. You need an app and a library card. They have the latest issues of lots of titles!

Same as Terribull. My mil does pass on womans weekly to me, and that is plenty.

I've got a very battered Good Food mag from 1993 that I still get all my Xmas recipes from. Good Food Christmas pud, Good Food Christmas cake and Good Food mincemeat. Mary Cadogan recipes.

Our surgery banned donations of magazines during the swine flu epidemic and haven't had them back since. I don't think I have bought a women's mag for decades. I sometimes have a look at the Reader's Digest in the dentist's waiting room (they weren't worried about swine flu) but he seldom keeps me waiting long enough. I get magazines from the Scottish National Trust, the U3A, NWR. Nothing too exciting!

I have a subscription to Jamie's magazine because it's fun and I buy Woman's Weekly every week. Since I was on one of their focus groups a couple of years ago I feel quite proprietorial about it.

A friend of mine was a practice manager in a Dr's surgery, she told me that they disappear until the staff have read them all, which is why there are always a good selection of hunting and fishing and car mags available but nothing much else!

I walked into a surgery once and plonked down a pile of my magazines, and was spotted by a receptionist. She said that in future they must all go through reception, to make sure that the contents were suitable. I showed her the pile of Thomas the Tank Engine and Dandy... She didn't want them after that.

I am now a Guerilla Magazine Placer. The beneficiaries of my generosity are subjected to Woman and Home, DBH's BBC Good Food mags, MiL's Woman's Realm which she passes on but go straight past me without stopping, National Trust and RHS mags and occasionally Good Housekeeping. My sisters try to make me read health-style magazines but like the women's mags beloved by MiL, they pass me by and head straight for the surgery.

Now that DBH is going there regularly, I am a little scared that some will make their way home again.

Nice one ,*jane*. My dentist has a very upmarket selection but most places I go seem to have only Hello and similar. I take my Kindle everywhere.

I had a subscription to Trout Fisherman (only because there was a good free gift on offer!). I gave it up after about three years because I noticed that the same articles (with slight variations) kept cropping up each season. There are only so many ways of catching fish! I also buy food magazines, but I wouldn't take out a subscription to them.

Now call me cynical, but are we now going to be targetted by adverts from these magazines?

janer You might think the receptionist in the doctor's was being sniffy, but in the early days of my practice, one day I found a magazine on the waiting room table that was of, shall we say, questionable taste and which had been 'donated' by a patient

One thing to beware of with magazine subscriptions is that if you pay for them with a credit card, the subscription continues indefinitely until you cancel it.

A couple of our friends ended up getting birthday presents of two years' subscription instead of one, until I clued on to what was happening.

Going back to the glossy magazines mentioned, purchased by a work colleague, I was also a bit by the price of them too! I think that if one was to count the pages of content, and compare that to the pages of adverts, it would probably score very low on actual content.

I suppose that I do actually buy one magazine on a regular basis, namely the Radio Times (referred to as the Raddy Otta Mizz) and that has gone up in price, £2 now.

I am a sucker for craft magazines and knitting ones . I donate them to a nursing home when finished with them , also some make their way to the Charity shop where my sister volunteers

I remember one of my friends complaining that she couldn't afford to buy Vogue because it was 4 shillings a month! Admittedly this was rather a long time ago

janea as long as it wasn't someone with a dicky heart who found and read it, what was the problem?