Do you still buy magazines?

My DH has bought me a subscription for Saga magazine for my Christmas present for a few years now. I find it very interesting I can leave it down and come back to it.
Yes definitely to this one.

It's disappointing that you can't get the usual magazines without all the celebrity stuff in them, they should just have celebrity magazines for those that want them and let the rest of us get back to intelligent reading !

Ever since i was married, I bought Good NF Housekeeping - so since 1968 - I must own the company! Although DD now gives it to me as part of my Christmas present.

It isn’t what it was though - I expect its me getting old

I love home interiors magazines. My children refer to these as " property porn".

World of Interiors is the only magazine I look at these days but I don't buy it. It's available at a specialist library I use, where I can sit in lovely comfy chairs and read for hours.

I used to love fashion magazines and couldn't wait for the next issue of Honey, 19, Vogue, Nova, Elle, Cosmo etc to hit the shelves. To keep me going in the week I bought Woman and mum bought Woman's Own and we'd swap.

But nowadays, no, I never do.

Sad really, it was one of life's little joys but I totally agree with Witzend - the ratio of ads to content is one if the reasons I stopped buying them.

I buy Woman’s Weekly on subscription. There is a good mix of articles. Definitely not a celebrity gossip type.
Puzzles, food, short stories, craft , well being and inspiration .
At under £2 per week ,I think it is good value.

I buy Good Housekeeping but mostly for the recipes. I am thinking of cancelling the paper version and just keeping the app. I sometimes buy the Sainsbury's magazine for the recipes.

I enjoy magazines but never buy any as visitors to cottages do while on holiday and leave them behind I read and return to cottag. Never know what to find

And of course you don’t need access to a newsagent they arrive by post!

I have a weekly subscription to Women’s Weekly and a monthly one to Prima. Both have interesting articles and stories and have several pages of puzzles I really enjoy. Good discount with a subscription and I can recommend

I stopped buying any some years ago, after counting the percentage of pages of ads in one of the monthly ones - can’t remember which - it was over 70%.

I do look but then compare the price to that of a paperback, especially in supermarkets and buy the book

In our local library there is a box of various donated magazines at 50p each.

I also get Country Living from my Bank. I would never buy it as it’s mostly advertising.

Janejudge - love it 😂

No I don't, very expensive and generally nothing of interest.

Very rarely as I find them too expensive these days. I sometimes read them via the local library website, but it's not the same as reading them physically.

I agree with Oreo about the Saturday Times. I take Good Housekeeping as a freebie from my bank and also take Prima as DH didn’t want his freebie. I find them mildly interesting but not worth buying.

I used to love reading magazines from my teens through into my 30s, but they changed and it has been a long time - possibly 30 years - since there were any that appealed to me.

Apart, that is from special-interest ones such as Kitchen Garden Magazine, which i subscribed to for several years and really enjoyed when I first had an allotment, but even that lost its appeal for me eventually, because basically it ran out of topics that were new to me.

I bought my daughter a magazine (children's Disney) from the co-op and it was £6.99!

I very very occasionally buy country living - heaven knows why as I live in a large multi cultural town and am most probably so far removed from the likes of the country living folk

No

I get Good Housekeeping as a freebie from my bank.
It is a shadow of its former self.
As others have noticed it is celebrity obsessed.
There is one on the cover every month and an article inside about them.
Then more articles about how others have overcome difficulties in their life.
I want to be entertained actually…..and don’t get me started about the fashion articles.
I think to buy it is about £5 , a waste of anybody’s money.

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Crossed post about libraries, libra.

And I was just going to post the same!
My neighbours used to have a ‘magazine circle’, and I got them after everyone had read them ( there were no other magazines they wanted to read, so I didn’t have to join officially!)

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I bought a Woman and Home last week when I had to wait in hospital and finished the book I’d taken.

There was nothing to read in it. Mostly about what celebrities did or thought.

I won’t be buying it again.

I used to buy it and thought it was an excellent magazine, but that was 20 years ago.
I can’t afford magazines so no longer buy any.The one thing we have started to do is buy The Times on a Saturday as there are supplements with it including crosswords and various puzzles, a magazine and enough reading to last us all week.Some thoughtful articles as well as all the news.